What does ἀληθινός · προσκυνητής mean in the Bible?
ἀληθινός · προσκυνητής is a Greek phrase meaning "truthful".
Greek · G228, G4353
ἀληθινοὶ προσκυνηταί
Truthful · an adorer
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ἀληθινός G228 truthful
Pronunciation alēthinós
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προσκυνητής G4353 an adorer
Pronunciation proskynētḗs
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What does ἀληθινοὶ προσκυνηταί (alēthinoi proskynētai) mean in the Bible?
ἀληθινός · προσκυνητής is a Greek phrase meaning "truthful".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for G228, G4353?
G228, G4353 is connected to 28 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. truthful
Source Gloss
truthful
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 10 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 10 Aligned forms 28 Case pattern Nominative (19) Number pattern Singular (20)
Nominative · Singular · Masculine John 4:37 · John 7:28 · 1 John 5:20 · Rev 3:7 · Rev 3:14 · Rev 6:10 · Rev 19:11 7×
Nominative · Plural · Masculine John 4:23 · Rev 19:9 · Rev 21:5 · Rev 22:6 4×
Nominative · Singular · Feminine John 8:16 · John 15:1 · John 19:35 3×
Nominative · Plural · Feminine Rev 15:3 · Rev 16:7 · Rev 19:2 3×
Nominative · Singular · Neuter John 1:9 · 1 John 2:8 2×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Heb 8:2 · Heb 10:22 2×
Genitive · Plural · Neuter Heb 9:24 1×
Dative · Singular · Masculine 1 Thess 1:9 · 1 John 5:20 2×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine John 6:32 · John 17:3 · 1 John 5:20 3×
Accusative · Singular · Neuter Luke 16:11 1×
Word Origins
ἀληθινοὶ προσκυνηταί is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain