What does ἄνηθον (ánēthon) mean in the Bible?
ἄνηθον (ánēthon): Aromatic herb used for seasoning and medicinal purposes in ancient Mediterranean culinary and medicinal practice.
Greek · G432
ἄνηθον
ἄνηθον (ánēthon): Aromatic herb used for seasoning and medicinal purposes in ancient Mediterranean culinary and medicinal practice.
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ἄνηθονG432
Pronunciationánēthon
What does ἄνηθον (ánēthon) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G432?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include dill (1).
Where does ἄνηθον (ánēthon) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 23:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itdill1×Matthew 23:23
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First aligned rowMatthew 23:23
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Matthew1
Source forms
ἄνηθον1xanēthonMatthew 23:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular1xMatthew 23:23
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Aromatic herb used for seasoning and medicinal purposes in ancient Mediterranean culinary and medicinal practice.
Strong'sG432
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
dill
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Aromatic herb used for seasoning and medicinal purposes in ancient Mediterranean culinary and medicinal practice.
anise, dill , (Aristophanes Comicus); ionic ἄννησον or ἄνησον (Herdotus Historicus); aeolic ἄννητον, or ἄνητον, (Sapho). (ML)
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 23:23Noun Accusative Singular Neuter
ἄνηθονanhqon
anise, dill
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · NeuterMatt 23:231×
Word Origins
ἄνηθον is of foreign origin - no further derivation.