What does ἄργυρος (árgyros) mean in the Bible?
ἄργυρος (árgyros): Silver as precious metal valued for currency, ornament, and idolatry rather than mere material substance.
Greek · G696
ἄργυρος
Silver (the metal, in the articles or coin)
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ἄργυρος G696
Pronunciation árgyros
What does ἄργυρος (árgyros) mean in the Bible?
ἄργυρος (árgyros): Silver as precious metal valued for currency, ornament, and idolatry rather than mere material substance.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G696?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include silver (5).
Where does ἄργυρος (árgyros) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 10:9. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Corinthians (1), Acts (1), James (1), 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 It silver 5× Matthew 10:9, Acts 17:29, 1 Corinthians 3:12, James 5:3
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Matthew 10:9 ἄργυρον to silver Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Acts 17:29 ἀργύρῳ to silver Noun - Dative Masculine Singular 1 Corinthians 3:12 ἄργυρον to silver Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular James 5:3 ἄργυρος to silver Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Revelation 18:12 ἀργύρου to silver Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 10:9
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 5
Matthew 1 Acts 1 1 Corinthians 1 James 1 Revelation 1
Source forms
ἄργυρον 2x argyron Matthew 10:9, 1 Corinthians 3:12
ἄργυρος 1x argyros James 5:3
ἀργύρου 1x argyrou Revelation 18:12
ἀργύρῳ 1x argyrō Acts 17:29
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular 2x Matthew 10:9, 1 Corinthians 3:12
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular 1x Acts 17:29
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular 1x Revelation 18:12
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 1x James 5:3
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Silver as precious metal valued for currency, ornament, and idolatry rather than mere material substance.
Strong's G696
Lexical occurrences 5 verses Greek text appearances 5 times Word forms 4 forms 5 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Proverbs 10:20 Source Gloss
silver (the metal, in the articles or coin)
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Silver as precious metal valued for currency, ornament, and idolatry rather than mere material substance.
(ἀργός, shining), [in LXX for כֶּסֶף ;] silver (on its relation to ἀργύριον, see MM, see word): Mat.10:9, Act.17:29, Jas.5:5, Rev.18:12.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 10:9 Noun Accusative Singular Masculine
ἄργυρον, arguron
silver as a metal
Read verse Acts 17:29 Noun Dative Singular Masculine
ἀργύρῳ argurw
silver as a metal
Read verse 1 Corinthians 3:12 Noun Accusative Singular Masculine
ἄργυρον, arguron
silver as a metal
Read verse James 5:3 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
ἄργυρος argurov
silver as a metal
Read verse Revelation 18:12 Noun Genitive Singular Masculine
ἀργύρου, argurou
silver as a metal
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 4 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 4 Aligned forms 5 Case pattern Accusative (2) Number pattern Singular (5)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Jas 5:3 1×
Genitive · Singular · Masculine Rev 18:12 1×
Dative · Singular · Masculine Acts 17:29 1×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Matt 10:9 · 1 Cor 3:12 2×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
Silver as precious metal contrasted with worthless tongue, metaphor for value
Silver refined by fire, metaphor for testing and purification of heart and character
Silver and gold as precious metals, metaphor for testing human character and reputation
Silver as refined metal rejected when impure, metaphor for corrupt people among the righteous
Showing 4 selected witnesses from 5 lexical occurrence verses.
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
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