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N1904οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

BSAwhohostis, hētis having cast off all feelingapalgeō [ceased to feel, become callous, moral sensitivity] themselvesheautou they gave upparadidōmi [surrendered, abandoned] <the>ho to sensualityaselgeia [lasciviousness, debauchery] foreis [the] workingergasia [working, occupation] of impurityakatharsia [uncleanness, immorality] allpas [all, every type] withen greediness.pleonexia [greediness, covetousness]

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Ephesians 4:19quick helps
In a sentenceThose who have lost their moral sensitivity have surrendered themselves to immoral behavior and desire more.
Who is speakingThe Apostle Paul, addressing the Ephesians.
Where we arePaul contrasts the behavior of the Ephesians with their new life in Christ.
The hard wordἀπηλγηκότες
Take awayMoral sensitivity is lost, leading to a cycle of increasing immorality.
8 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them › clause subjectὅστις verbἀπαλγέω The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
How rare are these words?in the New Testament

1 of 12 occurs nowhere else in the New Testament — a word chosen on purpose.

Bars are logarithmic — , the commonest word in the Greek New Testament, stands 19,867 times, so a linear scale would leave everything else invisible. Click a row to open that word.

Deep Study — Ephesians 4:19

Sections marked generated are written from the data on this page rather than by a named author. Everything else — the lexicon entries, the cross references, the manuscript readings, the counts — is quoted from its source unchanged.

Context — The New Life in Christgenerated

18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
20But this is not the way you came to know Christ.
21Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

Ephesians 4:19 describes a group of people who have become morally numb and have surrendered themselves to a life of sensuality and impurity. Paul is warning the Ephesians against adopting such behaviors, which are characteristic of those who do not know God. This passage emphasizes the transformation that should occur in believers as they walk in the truth of Christ, contrasting their past with their new identity.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
11 Timothy 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
2Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
3Romans 1:24–26Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
41 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
5Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 10 references, hung on the phrase they belong to


The Key Word ἀπηλγηκότες, apalgeōgenerated

The word ἀπαλγέω (i.e., *apalgeo*) is a perfect active participle meaning 'having cast off all feeling.' It indicates a state of emotional numbness, where individuals no longer feel moral conviction or shame due to their sinful actions.

This loss of feeling is significant; it describes a condition where individuals are apathetic toward moral truths and have become desensitized to the consequences of their actions. Paul uses this term to highlight the seriousness of abandoning moral sensitivity, which leads to further sinful behavior.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

In the Berean Standard Bible, the verse uses the phrase having lost all sense of shame, which aligns with the KJV's being past feeling and the WEB's having become callous. Each translation conveys the idea of a loss of moral sensitivity.

The translations differ in their rendering of ἀσελγείᾳ, with the KJV and ASV using lasciviousness, while the BSB opts for to sensuality. The same pattern follows for ἀκαθαρσίας, where the BSB uses of impurity while others prefer uncleanness.


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb in this verse is παρέδωκαν, they gave up, which governs the action of the subject οἵτινες, who. The structure includes a participial phrase describing the subject's state, followed by a prepositional phrase indicating the nature of their actions.

The verse can be broken down into clauses: the main clause presents the action of giving up, while subordinate clauses provide information about the subject's condition and the nature of their surrender.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

παραδίδωμι appears in the Septuagint as a translation of Hebrew words meaning 'to give' or 'to deliver.' It is used in contexts that often imply a sense of betrayal or yielding, similar to its usage in Ephesians.

The term ἀκαθαρσία also appears in the Septuagint, where it translates Hebrew words related to moral and ceremonial impurity, reinforcing the concept of being unclean in both physical and spiritual senses.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

Ephesians 4:19 describes individuals who have lost their moral feelings and have surrendered to a life of immoral behavior. Paul warns the Ephesians against such a lifestyle, emphasizing that they should not follow the example of those who do not know God.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What does it mean to lose all sense of shame?

Losing all sense of shame refers to a state where individuals no longer feel guilt or moral conviction about their actions, leading them to engage in immoral behaviors without remorse.

Why do people give themselves over to sensuality?

People may give themselves over to sensuality due to a loss of moral sensitivity, often influenced by societal norms or personal desires that prioritize pleasure over moral standards.

How does this verse relate to the Christian life?

This verse serves as a warning for Christians to maintain their moral sensitivity and to avoid the behaviors characteristic of those who do not know Christ, emphasizing the importance of living a life that reflects their new identity in Him.

What are the consequences of living without moral sensitivity?

Living without moral sensitivity can lead to a cycle of increasing immorality, where individuals become desensitized to sin and may ultimately face spiritual consequences for their actions.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. In what areas of my life do I need to regain moral sensitivity?
  2. How can I encourage others to resist the temptation to surrender to immoral behavior?
  3. What practical steps can I take to strengthen my conscience and awareness of right and wrong?
  4. How does understanding my identity in Christ help me resist the urge to engage in sinful behaviors?

The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it

John Chrysostom provides insight into this verse, discussing the implications of moral numbness and the responsibility of individuals to resist sinful behaviors.

John ChrysostomHomily on Ephesians 13 c. 347–407
"Who being past feeling," saith he, "gave themselves up." Whenever then ye hear, that "God gave them up unto a reprobate mind," remember this expression, that "they gave themselves up." If then they gave themselves over,
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John ChrysostomHomily on Ephesians 13 c. 347–407
"With greediness," saith he. Here he has most completely taken away their excuse; for it was in their power, if at least they chose it, not to be "greedy," nor to be "lascivious," nor gluttonous, and yet to enjoy their desires.
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John ChrysostomHomily on Ephesians 13 c. 347–407
"To work all uncleanness," saith he. Ye see how he strips them of all excuse by speaking of "working uncleanness." They did not sin, he means, by making a false step, but they worked out these horrid deeds,
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Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on Ephesians 4:19 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who being past feeling,.... Their consciences being cauterized or seared as with a red hot iron, which is the consequence of judicial hardness; so that they have lost all sense of sin, and do not

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Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Who being , [ hoitines (G3748)] - as being persons who: inasmuch as they.

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Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who being past feeling; having lost all sense and conscience of sin: a higher degree or effect of the hardness before mentioned, . Have given themselves over unto lasciviousness; voluntarily yielded themselves up to the power of their own sensuality and lasciviousness, so as to be commanded by it, without resisting it. To work; not only to burn with inward lusts, but to fulfil them in the outward acts. All uncleanness; all sorts of uncleanness, even the most monstrous, ,26,27 . With greediness; either with covetousness, and then it respects those that prostituted themselves for gain; or rather with an insatiable desire of still going on in their filthiness.

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John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Ver. 19. Who being past feeling] Under a dead and dedolent disposition, being desperately sinful. Some there are of cauterized consciences, that, like devils, will have nothing to do with God, because loth to be tormented before their time. They feeling such horrible hard hearts, and privy to such notorious sins, they cast away souls and all for lust, and so perish woefully, because they lived wickedly; having through custom in evil contracted such a hardness, as neither ministry, nor misery, nor miracle, nor mercy could possibly mollify. As ducklings dive at any little thing…

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Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(19) Who being past feeling . . .—We note that St. Paul, passing lightly over the intellectual loss, dwells on the moral with intense and terrible emphasis. They are (he says) “past feeling”; or, literally, carrying on the metaphor of callousness, they have lost the capacity of pain—the moral pain which is the natural and healthful consequence of sin against our true natures. Consequently, losing in this their true humanity, they give themselves over to “lasciviousness.” The word used here (as also in Mark 7:22; Romans 13:13; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19) signifies a lust devoid of all sense of decency, recklessly and grossly animal. Hence its result is not only to work out…

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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 19. 5. Who being past feeling] οιτινεςαπηλγηκοτες. The verb απαλγειν signifies, 1. To throw off all sense of shame, and to be utterly devoid of pain, for committing unrighteous acts. 2. To be desperate, having neither hope nor desire of reformation; in a word, to be without remorse, and to be utterly regardless of conduct, character, or final blessedness. Instead of απηλγηκοτες, several excellent MSS. and versions have απηλπικοτες, being without hope; that is, persons who, from their manner of life in this world, could not possibly hope for blessedness in the world to come, and who might feel it their interest to deny the resurrection of the body, and even the immortality of the soul.…

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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

19. who being past feeling] The Gr. relative pronoun indicates a certain conditionality; almost as if it were, “as being those who.” But the shade is too slight for translation.—“Past feeling”:—lit., “having got over the pain,” as when mortification sets in; a deeply suggestive metaphor.have given themselves over] Lit., did give over themselves. An ideal crisis is in view, reflected in many a sad actual crisis in individual lives.—“Themselves” is emphatic by position. The perverted will is the traitor, the “giver over.” However deep the mystery of its perversion, it is always the will, and speaks as such the decisive “yes” to temptation.lasciviousness] The Gr. word occurs in N.T. 11 times.…

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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who being past feeling - Wholly hardened in sin. There is a total want of all emotion on moral subjects. This is an accurate description of the state of a sinner. He has no “feeling,” no emotion.

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The verse in English, compared — 16 translations, and where they part company

Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.

Modern formal

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

WEBWorld English Bible2000

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

NETBNew English Translation2006

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

RVARevised Version, American1894

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Which being past feeling, haue giuen themselues vnto wantonnesse, to woorke all vncleannesse, euen with griedinesse.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

who, having ceased to feel, gave themselves up to the licentiousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

They have no shame and have handed themselves over to sensuality, and they are continually practicing every kind of impurity.

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

Because they are past caring they abandon themselves to sensuality, and greedily do all kinds of disgusting things.

BBEBible in Basic English1949

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

Word by word, the decisions they made

ἀπηλγηκότεςapalgeō having cast off all feeling G524 3 different renderings
ceased to feelLSV YLT
having cast off all feelingDBY
become callousWEB
ἀσελγείᾳaselgeia to sensuality G766 2 different renderings
lasciviousnessASV DBY DRA KJV NWB RVA YLT
to sensualityBSB FBV MSB ULB
ἀκαθαρσίαςakatharsia of impurity G167 2 different renderings
uncleannessASV DBY DRA KJV LSV NWB RVA WEB YLT
of impurityBSB MSB NETB ULB
πάσηςpas all G3956 2 different renderings
allASV BBE DBY DRA FBV GNV KJV LSV NWB RVA WEB YLT
everyBSB MSB NETB ULB
πλεονεξίᾳ.¶pleonexia greediness. G4124 3 different renderings
greedinessASV KJV LSV NETB NWB RVA WEB YLT
cravingBSB MSB
covetousnessDRA

Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.


The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the Nestle 1904 treebank

This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.

clauseοὖνthereforeclauseclauseobjectΤοῦτοThisverbλέγωI sayκαὶandclauseverbμαρτύρομαιtestifyprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνinΚυρίῳ[the] Lordclause · objectclauseadverbialμηκέτιNo longersubjectὑμᾶς[are] youverbπεριπατεῖνto walkclauseκαθὼςasclauseadverbialκαὶalsonoun phrase · subjectτὰtheἔθνηGentilesverbπεριπατεῖare walkingprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνinnoun phraseματαιότητι[the] futilitynoun phraseτοῦof thenoun phraseνοὸςmindαὐτῶνof themclause · adverbialclauseverb phrase · verbἐσκοτωμένοιbeing darkenedὄντεςbeingnoun phrase · adverbialτῇin theδιανοίᾳunderstandingclauseverbἀπηλλοτριωμένοιalienated fromnoun phrase · adverbialτῆςthenoun phraseζωῆςlifenoun phraseτοῦ-Θεοῦof Godprepositional phrase · adverbialδιὰbecause ofnoun phrasenoun phraseτὴνtheἄγνοιανignorancenoun phraseτὴν-clauselinking verbοὖσανbeingprepositional phrase · predicateἐνinαὐτοῖςthemprepositional phrase · adverbialδιὰon account ofnoun phraseτὴνthenoun phraseπώρωσινhardnessnoun phraseτῆςof thenoun phraseκαρδίαςheartnoun phraseαὐτῶνof themclausesubjectοἵτινεςwhoadverbialἀπηλγηκότεςhaving cast off all feelingobjectἑαυτοὺςthemselvesverbπαρέδωκανhave given upnoun phrase · adverbialτῇtoἀσελγείᾳsensualityprepositional phrase · adverbialεἰςfornoun phrasenoun phraseἐργασίαν[the] workingnoun phraseἀκαθαρσίαςof impurityπάσηςallprepositional phraseἐνwithπλεονεξίᾳgreediness

Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.


The earliest translations — Latin and Syriac

Every translation is an argument about meaning made by someone who had to commit to one. These two were made while the Greek was still a living language, and they are the oldest opinions we have about what this verse says.

Latin VulgateAD 382–405

qui desperantes, semetipsos tradiderunt impudicitiæ, in operationem immunditiæ omnis in avaritiam.

Jerome revised the Old Latin against the Greek from AD 382; the Latin west read this text for a thousand years.

Syriac Peshittaby AD 400

ܗܢܘܢ ܕܦܣܩܘ ܣܒܪܗܘܢ ܘܐܫܠܡܘ ܢܦܫܗܘܢ ܠܦܚܙܘܬܐ ܘܠܦܘܠܚܢܐ ܕܟܠܗ ܛܢܦܘܬܐ ܒܝܥܢܘܬܗܘܢ

The Bible of the Syriac-speaking church, in the language nearest to the Aramaic Jesus spoke.

Shown verse by verse rather than word by word: aligning a Greek word to its Latin or Syriac counterpart automatically would be guesswork, and a wrong alignment is worse than none.


The Greek editions compared — what the manuscripts actually say

Eight printed editions of the Greek New Testament, side by side. Where they agree the wording is settled; where a word is missing from an edition it is marked, so you can see the difference rather than take it on trust.

Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

An independent critical text built from the oldest witnesses then known.

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.¶

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

Every witness on this verse all agree
Critical editions
Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993SBL Greek New Testament2010Westcott–Hort1881Tregelles1857–1879Tyndale House Greek NT2017
Byzantine / Majority
Byzantine majority text2018
Received Text
Textus Receptus1550/1894

A witness that read differently would show its variant word here, marked.

Word by word, across the editions

Every edition agrees. All 8 printed editions — Nestle-Aland 28, Nestle-Aland 27, SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Tyndale House 2017, Textus Receptus (KJV), Byzantine majority — carry every word of this verse, in the same order, with no difference that any translator would render differently.


The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with

This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Greek New Testament — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.

Ephesians 4:19ὅστιςwhowhoὅστιςἀπαλγέωhaving casthaving cast offἀπαλγέωἑαυτοῦthemselvesthemselvesἑαυτοῦπαραδίδωμιthey gave uthey gave upπαραδίδωμι<the><the>ἀσέλγειαto sensualito sensualityἀσέλγειαεἰςforforεἰςἐργασία[the] worki[the] workingἐργασίαἀκαθαρσίαof impurityof impurityἀκαθαρσίαπᾶςallallπᾶςἐνwithwithἐνπλεονεξίαgreediness.greediness.πλεονεξίαὅςRel.pr. whRel.pr. who, whὅςἀπόPrep. fromPrep. from, awaἀπόπαράPrep. fromPrep. from, in παράἐργάτηςn.m. a fien.m. a field-laἐργάτηςἀκάθαρτοςAdj uncleaAdj unclean, imἀκάθαρτοςπλεονέκτηςn.m. a covn.m. a covetousπλεονέκτηςἄλφαletter theletter the firsἄλφαεἰςPrep. intoPrep. into, in,εἰςἐκPrep. fromPrep. from out,ἐκἀκαθαρσίαn.f. unclen.f. uncleannesἀκαθαρσίαεὐνοῦχοςn.m. a eunn.m. a eunuch, εὐνοῦχοςοἰκοδεσπότηςn.m. a hean.m. a head of οἰκοδεσπότηςταπεινόωv. I humblv. I humble, huταπεινόωσυνίστημιv. I commev. I commend, pσυνίστημιἸούδαςn.m. Judahn.m. Judah, JudἸούδαςἀρχιερεύςn.m. high n.m. high priesἀρχιερεύςπορνείαn.f. fornin.f. fornicatioπορνείαἹεροσόλυμαn.f. & n.nn.f. & n.n. JerἹεροσόλυμα
meets it a little oftener than chancemeets it far oftener than chancebuilt from the same roottwo words of the verse share ita word of this versea related word

Lexicons — every word in Ephesians 4:19

One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Greek lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.

Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. Imported from the CrossWire SWORD modules — Abbott-Smith, the full Liddell-Scott-Jones, Strong's, Dodson, the Intermediate LSJ, Robinson and Packard on the Greek, Webster and Cawdrey on the English the translators were using. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
οἵτινεςhostis, hētis who G3748 Relative pronoun · nominative · plural · masculine
140× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means 'who' or 'which' and is used to ask about someone or something's identity, like in Matthew 5:39. It's often used to make general statements.
Tyndale gloss
who/which
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ὅστις (i.e., *hostis*) is a relative pronoun meaning 'whoever' or 'whosoever.' It is used in the New Testament primarily in general statements and relative sentences, often indicating an indefinite person or thing. The word is built from the components for 'who' and 'any.' Notably, there is some distinction in usage between ὅστις and its simpler form ὅς, particularly in the writings of Paul compared to Luke.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ τι (also written ὅ, τι and ὅτι; v. LS, s.v.; WH, § 411; Tdf., Pr., 111), in NT scarcely ever except in nom. (M, Pr., 91), the only instance of the oblique cases being found in ἕως ὅτου (v.s. ἕως), relative of indef. reference (related to simple ὅς as Lat. quisquis to qui),

whoever, anyone who;

of an indef. person or thing: in general statements, Mt 5:39, 41 13:12, and freq., Lk 14:27, Ga 5:4, al.; in relative sentences, Mt 7:26, Lk 15:7, Phl 3:7, al.; πᾶς ὅ., c. indic., Mt 7:24 10:32; ὅ ἄν (ἐάν), c. subjc., Read the full entry →

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ,τι (separated by a hypodiastole [comma], to distinguish it from ὅτε; but L T Tr write 6 τι, without a hypodiastole [ef. Td. Proleg. p. 111], leaving a little space between 6 and τι; [WH ὅτι]; cf. W. 46 (45 sq.); [Lipsius, Gramm. Untersuch. p. 118 sq.; WH. Intr. § 4117), gen. οὕτινος (but of the oblique cases only the acc. neut. ὅ,τι and the gen. ὅτου, in the phrase ἕως ὅτου, are found in the N. T.), [fr. Hom. down], comp. of és and tis, hence prop. any one who; i.e. 1. whoever, every one who: ὅστις simply, in the sing. chiefly at the beginning of a sentence in general propositions, esp. in Matt. ; w. an indic. pres., Mt. xiii. 12 (twice); Mk. viii. 34 (where L Tr WH εἴ τις); Lk. xiv. 27; neut. Mt. xviii. 28 Rec.; w. a fut., Mt. v. 39 [RG Trmrg.], 41; xxiii. 12, ete.; Jas. ii. 10 RG; plur. οἵτινες, whosoever (all those who): w. indic. pres., Mk. iv. 20; Lk. viii. 15; Gal.…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ὅστις. The classical distinction between ὅστις and ὅς which in the NT is maintained on the whole in Paul, but not in Luke (nor in the LXX, Thackeray ΟἿ". i. p. 192), has worn very thin in the papyri. Thus with Mt 2753 a/. we may compare i P Oxy I. 1104 (an invitation to dinner—ii/a.D.) αὔριον, ἥτις

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὅστις (hostis, hētis) — who/which.

ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ τι

(sometimes written ὅ, τι to distinct it from ὅτι, that): [Refs 8th c.BC+] has also the masculine collateral form ὅτις [Refs 8th c.BC+] and Ionic dialect and [Refs 4th c.AD+] and the neuter ὅττι [Refs 8th c.BC+]—In some forms only the second part is inflected, i.e. genitive ὅτου [Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect ὅττεο [Refs 8th c.BC+][same place], contraction ὅττευ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; perhaps also in Ionic dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ὅτεῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+], and as disyllable, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect accusative ὅτινα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Delph. dative ὅτινι [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; neuter ὅτινα [Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect ὅτων [Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect ὅτοισι [Refs 8th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect ὄττινας [Refs 7th c.BC+]: of the forms with double inflexion [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ᾧτινι first in [Refs 8th c.BC+]…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὅστις

hostis

hetis hay'-tis, and the neuter

ho,ti hot'-ee

from 3739 and 5100; which some, i.e. any that; also (definite) which

same:--X and (they), (such) as, (they) that, in that they,

what(-soever), whereas ye, (they) which, who(-soever). Compare 3754.

see GREEK for 3739

see GREEK for 5100

see GREEK for 3754

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅτι

Rel.pr.

whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὅστις hostis 144x

whoever, whatever; whosoever, whatsoever, Mt. 5:39, 41; 13:12; 18:4; its use in place of the simple relative is also required in various cases, which may be learned from the grammars; ἕως ὅτου, i.e. χρόνου, until, Lk. 13:8; while, Mt. 5:25

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὅστις any one who, anything which, i. e. whosoever, whichsoever, differing from ὅς, as Lat. quisquis, from qui, Hom., etc.; ὅντινα κιχείη whomsoever he caught, Il.; ὅτις κ ἐπίορκον ὀμόσσῃ whoso forswears himself, id. Il., etc.: —ἔστιν ὅστις, Lat. est qui, often with a negat., οὐκ ἔστιν ὅτῳ μείζονα μοῖραν νείμαιμ᾽ there is no one to whom I would give more, Aesch., etc.: —οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐ everything, Hdt.

hardly different from ὅς, who, βωμόν, ὅστις νῦν ἔξω τῆς πόλεώς ἐστι the altar, which . . , Thuc.

in indirect questions, ξεῖνος ὅδ᾽, οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὅστις Od.:—in dialogue, when the person questioned repeats the question asked by τίς, as οὗτος τί ποιεῖς; Answ. ὅ τι ποιῶ; [you ask] what I'm doing?…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Rel-NPM — Relative pronoun · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

R-NPM Part of Speech: Relative pronoun Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
54%who
who54% · 79×which26% · 38×whoever9% · 13×when2% · 3×other renderings4% · 6×other renderings4% · 6×

145 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 13 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject99%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 140 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
γυνήa woman, wife, my la
Article theὁράωI see, look uponκαίand, even, also,
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςὕψιστοςhighest, most hiἅγιοςset apart, holy,
καίand, even, also, nam
ταπεινόωI humble, humiliὀφθαλμόςthe eyeθεόςGod, a god
ἐγώ
λόγοςa word, speech, θεόςGod, a godὑπαντάωI meet
οἰκοδεσπότηςa head of a househol
ἄνθρωποςa man, one of thεἰμίI am, exist
ὅστιςwho140×
what comes after →
εἰμίI am, exist
μετάπᾶςall, the whole, ἐν
οὐNeg
μήNegἰσχύωI am strong, ablἀφαιρέωI take away, smi
ἐν
Article theκαρδίαthe heart, innerνόμοςa law, the Mosai
σύ
ῥαπίζωI slap, strikeἀγγαρεύωI impress, sendὡςas, like as, how
δέbut, on the other ha
ἄνDisjοὐNegὑψόωI lift up, exalt

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceὅστις · 140× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts Luke Hebrews Romans Revelation Galatians Ephesians Mark Philippians 1 Corinthians 1 Timothy

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament22 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch Polycarp
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 47c. AD 40

εἰ γοῦν οἱ ἀπὸ μονάδος ἄχρι τετράδος ἑξῆς συντεθεῖεν ἀριθμοί, δεκάδα γεννήσουσιν, ἥτις ὅρος τῆς ἀπειρίας τῶν ἀριθμῶν ἐστι, περὶ ὃν ὡς καμπτῆρα εἱλοῦνται καὶ ἀνακάμπτουσι.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.3c. AD 75–95

εἰσὶ δʼ οἵτινες ἐβιάσθησαν ὑπʼ αὐτῆς τῆς τῶν πραγμάτων ἀνάγκης οἷς πραττομένοις παρέτυχον ταῦτα γραφῇ δηλούσῃ περιλαβεῖν·

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 10.3c. AD 100

τὸ οὖν χοιρίον πρὸς τοῦτο εἶπεν: οὐ κολληθήσῃ φησίν, ἀνθρώποις τοιούτοις, οἵτινές εἰσιν ὅμοιοι χοίρων: τουτέστιν ὅταν σπαταλῶσιν, ἐπιλανθάνονται τοῦ κυρίου, ὅταν δὲ ὑστεροῦνται, ἐπιγινώσκουσιν τὸν κύριον, ὡς καὶ ὁ χοῖρος ὅταν τρώγει τὸν κύριον οὐκ…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 5th c. AD
P.Fam.Tebt. 9Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 107

τοὺς τόκους ἃ ὤφειλεν ἡ Θαῆσις τῇ τῶν δύο Ἡρακλείδου καὶ Ἀπίας ἀδελφῆι Ἡρωδιαίνῃ ἥτις ἀπῄτησεν κατὰ ἀσφάλειαν τετελειωμένην διὰ τοῦ ἐν Θεογονίδι γραφείου τῶι ὀγδόωι ἔτει Τραιανοῦ Καίσαρος

P.Fam.Tebt. 13ArsinoitesAD 113–AD 114

ἐτῶν λ οὐλὴ γόνατι ἀριστερῷ … ονους με … συνῆρσθαι τὴν προς ἀλλήλους συνβίωσιν ἥτις αὐτοῖς συνειστήκει ἀπὸ συνγραφῆς ὁμολογίας τετελειωμένης διὰ τοῦ ἐν Τεπτύνει γραφείου ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν

P.Athen.. 35Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 154

Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς τύχην ἐργάσεσθαι ἐν τῷ προκιμένῳ δρυμῷ ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπογεγραμμένης ἡμέρας, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἡ πέμπτη τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι καὶ παραστήσειν τὸν μὲν Ζεναμοῦνιν τὰ ἑαυτοῦ

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
ἀπηλγηκότεςapalgeō having cast off all feeling G524 Verb · perfect · active · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To become callous or apathetic, as in Ephesians 4:19, where people have lost all sense of feeling due to their sinful ways. This means they no longer care. It is a state of emotional numbness.
Amplified meaning
ceased to feel, become callous, moral sensitivity
Tyndale gloss
to become callous
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἀπαλγέω (i.e., *apalgeo*) is built from the prefix ἀπ- and the root for feeling pain. It covers meanings such as ceasing to feel pain, becoming callous, or despondent. In the New Testament, it appears in Ephesians 4:19, where it describes those who have become insensible to truth and morality. Some lexicons note a disagreement on the nuances of despair associated with this term.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

* ἀπ-αλγέω, -ῶ,

prop., to cease to feel pain for (Thuc., ii, 61).

In late Gk.

to despair (Polyb., i, 35, 5);

to become callous, reckless (Polyb., xvi, 12, 7; MM, VGT, s.v.): Eph 4:19.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἀπ-αλγέω, -ὦ : [pf. ptep. ἀπηλγηκώς]}; to cease to feel pain or grief; a. to bear troubles with greater equanimity, cease to feel pain at: Thue. 2, 61 ete. b. to become callous, insensible to pain, apathetic : so those wha have become insensible to truth and honor and shame are called ἀπηλγηκότες [A. V. past feeling] in Eph. iv. 19. (Polyb. 1, 35, 5 ἀπηλγηκυίας ψυχάς dispirited and useless for war, [ef. Polyb. 16, 12, 7].)

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἀπαλγέω. To Grimm-Thayer’s reff. for this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Eph 419 ἀπηλγηκότες, but ἀπηλπικότες DG etc.) in its Hellenistic sense of “to despair” or ‘* become callous,” add Dion Cass. xlvill. 37 @. πρὸς τὴν ἐλπίδα.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἀπαλγέω (apalgeō) — to become callous.

ἀπαλγ-έω,

put away sorrow for, τὰ ἴδια[Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. generally, to be despondent, ἀ. ταῖς ἐλπίσιν[NT+2nd c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀπαλγέω

apalgeo

from 575 and algeo (to smart); to grieve out, i.e. become

apathetic:--be past feeling.

see GREEK for 575

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀπαλγέω

v.

I am past feeling, cease to care, become callous

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀπαλγέω apalgeō 1x

pr. to desist from grief; hence, to become insensible or callous, Eph. 4:19*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀπαλγέω to feel no more pain at a thing, τι Thuc.; ἀπ. τὸ πένθος to put away sorrow, Plut.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-RAP-NPM — Verb · perfect · active · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-RAP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: peRfect Voice: Active Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fel'-ing: The following varieties of meaning are to be noted:

(1) "To touch," "handle," "grope after" (mashash (Ge 27:12,22; Ex 10:21; mush, Ge 27:21; Jud 16:26; pselaphao, Ac 17:27).

(2) "To know," "understand," "experience" (bin, Ps 58:9; yadha`, Pr 23:35; ginosko, Mr 5:29).

(3) "To have a fellow feeling," "to place one's self into the position of another," especially while suffering, "to have compassion" (sumpathein,

Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
ἑαυτοὺςheautou themselves G1438 Reflexive pronoun · third person · accusative · plural · masculine
320× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This reflexive pronoun means 'themself' or 'themselves', referring back to the subject of a sentence, as in Matthew 27:42 and Luke 23:35.
Tyndale gloss
themself
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἑαυτοῦ (i.e., *heautou*) is a reflexive pronoun meaning 'of himself, herself, itself,' and is used primarily in the third person. It appears in various contexts throughout the New Testament, often indicating actions done by a subject to themselves or emphasizing possession. Additionally, it can serve as a reciprocal pronoun in plural forms, indicating mutual actions among individuals.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἑαυτοῦ, -ῆς, -οῦ, dat. -ῷ, etc., acc. -όν, etc., pi. -ῶν, etc. (Att. contr. αὑτοῦ, etc);

reflex pron.;

prop, of 3rd person (Lat. sui, sibi, se), of himself, herself, itself, etc.: Mt 27:42, Mk 15:31, Lk 23:35, al.; added to a middle verb, διεμερίσαντο ἑαυτοῖς, Jo 19:24; to an active verb, Ac 14:14 (M, Pr., 157); ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ, Lk 12:57 21:30, Jo 5:19, al. (v.s. ἀπό); δι’ ἑαυτοῦ, Ro 14:14; ἐν ἑ., Mt 3:9, Mk 5:30, al.; εἰς ἑ., Read the full entry →

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἑαυτοῦ (heautou) — themself.

ἑαυτοῦ, ῆς, οῦ, ἑαυτῷ, ῇ, ῷ, ἑαυτόν, ήν, ό,

plural ἑαυτῶν, ἑαυτοῖς, ἑαυτούς άς, ά: Ionic dialect ἑωυτοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ωὑτῆς [Refs 3rd c.BC+] in Papyrus and Inscrr., as [Refs 1st c.BC+]: Attic dialect contraction αὑτοῦ, etc., which is the usual form in Trag., though ἑαυτοῦ, etc., are used (though rarely) when the metre requires, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect ϝιαυτοῦ Kohler-Ziebarth Stadtrecht von Gortyn [Refs]; Doric dialect αὐταυτοῦ, αὐσαυτοῦ (which see); Thess. εὑτοῦ (dative), [Refs]: genitive plural ηὑτῶν [Refs]:—reflexive pronoun of 3rd pers., of himself, herself, itself, etc.; first in [Refs 7th c.BC+], and Attic dialect [Refs 8th c.BC+] itself by itself, absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὐτὸ ἐφ᾽ αὑτοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν, ἑαυτοῦ, of themselves, himself, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ, see at…

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Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἑαυτοῦ, ῆς, οῦ

Refl.pr.

himself, herself, itself

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἑαυτοῦ heautou 319x

himself, herself, itself, Mt. 8:22; 12:26; 9:21; also used for the first and second persons, Rom. 8:23; Mt. 23:31; also equivalent to ἀλλήλων, Mk. 10:26; Jn. 12:19; ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ, ἀφ’ ἑαυτῶν, of himself, themselves, voluntarily, spontaneously, Lk. 12:57; 21:30; of one’s own will merely, Jn. 5:19; δι’ ἑαυτοῦ, of itself, in its own nature, Rom. 14:14; ἐξ ἑαυτῶν, of one’s own self, 2 Cor.…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἑαυτοῦ reflex. Pron. of 3rd pers., Lat. sui, sibi, se, of himself, herself, itself, etc.; first in Hdt. and attic; Hom. has ἕο αὐτοῦ, οἷ αὐτῷ, ἑ αὐτόν:—αὐτὸ ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτό itself by itself, absolutely, Plat.; so τὸ ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτόν Thuc.; αὐτὸ καθ᾽ αὑτό Plat.;— ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ of himself, Thuc., etc.; ἐν ἑαυτοῦ, ἐντὸς ἑαυτοῦ, Lat. sui compos: — παρ᾽ ἑαυτῷ at his own house, Xen.; often with comp. and Sup., ἐγένοντο ἀμείνονες αὐτοὶ ἑωυτῶν they surpassed themselves, Hdt.; πλουσιώτεροι ἑαυτῶν, i. e. continually richer, Thuc.

in attic αὑτοῦ, sometimes for 1st or 2nd pers., Aesch., Soph.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
F-3APM — Reflexive pronoun · third person · accusative · plural · masculine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

F-3APM Part of Speech: reFlexive pronoun Person: third Case: Accusative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
34%himself
himself34% · 111×themselves20% · 67×yourselves14% · 48×his own7% · 24×their own6% · 21×ourselves6% · 20×itself3% · 11×other renderings5% · 18×other renderings3% · 11×

331 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 21 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
object53%adverbial36%indirect object8%subject3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 320 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
θάπτωI buryεἰςἕκαστοςeach, every one
ἐν
λέγωI say, speakδιαλογίζομαιI reason, debateαὐτός
ἐπί
βασιλείαkingship, sovereἐκβάλλωI throw, cast, pοἰκίαa house, househo
πρός
λέγωI say, speakκρατέωI lay hold of, oδιαλογίζομαιI reason, debate
μετά
ἔχωI have, hold, poπαραλαμβάνωI take, receiveλαμβάνωI receive, take
ἑαυτοῦthemselves320×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
αἴρωI raise, lift upεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inμερίζωI divide, part,
Article the
ἱμάτιονouter garmentἐκοἰκονόμοςa steward
λέγωI say, speak
ὅτιthat, since, becἐάνCondαὐτός
οὐNeg
δύναμαιI am powerful, aἵστημιI cause to standκρίνωI judge, decide,
ἀλλάbut, except
πρόσκαιροςtemporaryArticle theὅσος

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἑαυτοῦ · 320× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew 2 Corinthians John Mark Acts Romans 1 Corinthians Ephesians Hebrews Revelation Galatians

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament25 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 9c. AD 40

τὸ δὲ παθητὸν ἄψυχον καὶ ἀκίνητον ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ, κινηθὲν δὲ καὶ σχηματισθὲν καὶ ψυχωθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ νοῦ μετέβαλεν εἰς τὸ τελειότατον ἔργον, τόνδε τὸν κόσμον·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.19c. AD 75–95

ἰστέον οὖν, ὅτι πάντων ἐκεῖνος ἀναγκαιότατον ἡγήσατο τῷ καὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ μέλλοντι βίον οἰκονομήσειν καλῶς καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις νομοθετεῖν θεοῦ πρῶτον φύσιν κατανοῆσαι καὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν ἐκείνου θεατὴν τῷ νῷ γενόμενον οὕτως παράδειγμα τὸ πάντων ἄριστον…

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 2.1c. AD 100

Ἡμερῶν οὖν οὐσῶν πονηρῶν καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐνεργοῦντος ἔχοντος τὴν ἐξουσίαν, ὀφείλομεν ἑαυτοῖς προσέχοντες ἐκζητεῖν τὰ δικαιώματα κυρίου,

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 2nd c. BC
P.Grenf. 1 30Pathyris104 BC

καὶ ἡμῖν δὲ γράφοντες ὑπὲρ ὧν αἱρεῖσθε ὡς πᾶν προθυμότερον τελεωθησόμενον, ἐπιμελόμενοι δὲ καὶ ἑαυτῶν ἵνʼ ὑγιαίνητε. ἔρρωσθε. ἔτους ιδ τοῦ καὶ ια, Παῦνι ιε

P.Grenf. 1 33Thebais104 BC

κζ μέση μελίχρως λεύκωμα ὀφθαλμόν, μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύρριν αἱ τρεῖς τῶν Ψεμμίνιος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἑαυτῶν ἀδελφοῦ Παχνούβιος τοῦ προγεγραμμένου καὶ συνπωλουμένου, ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης αὐτοῖς πατρικῆς γῆς ἠπείρου σιτοφόρου

P.Grenf. 1 35Ptolemais - Akko (Syrien)103 BC

πυρὸν τοῖς παρʼ ἡμῶν. διʼ ἄλλων γεγράφαμεν ὑμῖν ὑπὲρ ὧν βουλόμεθα μηδεμιᾶς προσφωνήσεως προσπεπτωκυίας. ἑαυτῶν δὲ ἐπιμελόμενοι ἵνʼ ὑγιαίνητε, — ἔσμεν ἐν Πτολεμαίδι. ἔρρωσθε. ἔτους ιϛ, Θωῦθ η.

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
παρέδωκανparadidōmi they gave up G3860 Verb · aorist · active · indicative · third person · plural
119× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Ephesians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To deliver means to surrender or yield up, as when Jesus was handed over to the authorities in Matthew 11:27.
Amplified meaning
surrendered, abandoned
Tyndale gloss
to deliver
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

παραδίδωμι is a verb meaning to give or hand over, often with implications of betrayal or transmission. It can refer to delivering someone to judgment or teaching traditions. The New Testament uses it in contexts like committing to prison (e.g., Matthew 4:12) and handing down teachings (e.g., Mark 7:13). The entries suggest a range of meanings from simple delivery to betrayal, but do not indicate significant disagreement among lexicons.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

παρα-δίδωμι,

[in LXX chiefly for נתן;]

correl. to παρδέχομαι,

to give or hand over to another: c. acc. et dat., Mt 11:27 25:14, Lk 4:6, al.; of being delivered up to a course of teaching, pass. seq. εἰς, Ro 6:17.

to commit, commend: Ac 14:26 15:40, I Pe 2:23.

to give or deliver up to prison or judgment: c. acc. pers., Mt 4:12, Mk 1:14, Ro 4:25, II Pe 2:4; id. seq. ὑπέρ,

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παρα-δίδωμι, subjunc. 3 pers. sing. παραδιδῷ (1 Co. xv. 24 [Lmrg. Tr mrg. WH, cod. Sin., ete.]) and παραδιδοῖ (ibid. L txt. T Trtxt.; cf. Β. 46 (40) [and δίδωμε, init. ]}) ; impf. 3 pers. sing. παρεδίδου (Acts viii. 3; 1 Pet. ii. 23), plur. παρεδίδουν (Acts xvi. 4 RG; xxvii. 1) and παρεδίδοσαν (Acts xvi. 41, T Tr WH; οἵ. W. § 14, 1 ο.; B. 45 (39)); fut. παραδώσω ; 1 aor. παρέδωκα ; 2 aor. παρέδων, subjune. 3 pers. sing. παραδῷ and several times maoadoi (so LT Tr WH in Mk. iv. 29; xiv. 10, 11; Jn. xiii. 2; see δίδωμε, init.); pf. ptep. παραδεδωκώς (Acts xv. 26): plupf. 3 pers. plur. without augm. παραδεδώκεισαν (Mk. | xv. 10; W. 812, 9; [B. 33 (29); Tf. Proleg. p. 120 | sq-]); Pass., pres. παραδίδομαι ; impf. 3 pers. sing. παρε- | 8idero (1 Co. xi. 23 L Τ ΤΥ WH for RK ἃ παρεδίδοτο, see ἀποδίδωμι); pf. 3 pers. sing. mapadedora (Lk. iv. 6), ptep. παραδεδομένος, Acts xiv. 26; 1 aor.…

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παραδίδωμι The verb is common = ‘‘ make allowance for,” especially in leases—P Ryl II. 229! (a.p. 38) παρεδεξάμην σοι πάντα, “1 have given you every allowance’’ (but see Olsson Papyrusbrrefe, p. 81), P Amh II. 8618 (a.p. 78) ἐὰν δέ τις ABpoxo(s) γένηται παραδεχθήσεταί por κατὰ Td ἀνάλογον τοῦ φόρου, ‘if any of the land becomes unwatered, a proportionate allowance from the rent shall be made to me,” P Oxy I. ror (A.p. 142) ἐὰν δέ τις Tots ἑξῆς ἔτεσι ἄβροχος γένηται, παραδεχθήσεται τῷ μεμισθωμένῳ, ‘if in any of the years there should be a failure of water, an allowance shall be made to the lessee” (Edd.), and P Fay 125? (ii/A.D.) τὸ δαπανηθ[ὲν] παραϑέξομαι, “‘T will make allowance for the expense.” For a similar use of subst. παραδοχή see P. Oxy XIV. 165917? (A.D. 218221) with the editors’ note. The verb is also found in receipts, e.g. Prezsigke 3975? (iii/B.C.) παραδέχεται, and BGU VI.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi) — to deliver.

παραδίδωμι

(late παραδια-δίδω (δειδ-) [Refs 4th c.AD+], give, hand over to another, transmit, [παιδίον] τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐντεταλμένα, of couriers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of sentinels, π. τὸν κώδωνα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of letters to the person addressed, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a purchase to the buyer, [Refs]; of articles entered in an inventory by magistrates, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of an argument, π. τινὶ τὸν ἑξῆς λόγον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τὴν προξενίαν hand it down to one's posterity, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τὴν ἀρετήν transmit, impart as a teacher, [Refs]: with infinitive, παῖδάς σφι παρέδωκε τὴν γλῶσσαν ἐκμαθεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

παραδίδωμι

paradidomi

from 3844 and 1325; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust,

transmit:--betray, bring forth, cast, commit, deliver (up), give

(over, up), hazard, put in prison, recommend.

see GREEK for 3844

see GREEK for 1325

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

παραδίδωμι

v.

I hand over, deliver, betray

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

παραδίδωμι paradidōmi 119x

pluperfect, παραδεδώκεισαν (3 pl), to give over, hand over, deliver up, Mt. 4:12; 5:25; 10:4, 17; to commit, intrust, Mt. 11:27; 25:14; to commit, commend, Acts 14:26; 15:40; to yield up, Jn. 19:30; 1 Cor. 15:24; to abandon, Acts 7:42; Eph. 4:19; to stake, hazard, Acts 15:26; to deliver as a matter of injunction, instruction, etc., Mk. 7:13; Read the full entry →

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

παραδίδωμι fut. -δώσω to give or hand over to another, transmit, τί τινι, Lat. tradere, Hdt.; of transmission to one's successor, id. Hdt.; π. τὴν ἀρετήν to transmit, impart as a teacher, Plat.:—c. inf., π. τινὶ τοὺς νέους διδάσκειν id. Plat.

to give a city or person into another's hands, Hdt.; esp. as an hostage, to deliver up, surrender, Lat. dedere, id. Hdt., Thuc., etc.; also, with notion of treachery, to betray, Xen.: τύχῃ αὑτὸν π. to commit oneself to fortune, Thuc.

to give up to justice, ἑωυτὸν Κροίσῳ Hdt.; τινὰ εἰς τὸν δῆμον Xen.

to hand down legends, opinions, and the like, Lat. memoriae prodere, Dem.

to grant, bestow, κῦδός τινι Pind.:—in pres. and imperf. to offer, allow, αἵρεσιν id. Pind.: c. inf. to allow one to do, Hdt.; so, c. acc. rei, ὁ θεὸς τοῦτό γε οὐ παρεδίδου id.…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AAI-3P — Verb · aorist · active · indicative · third person · plural
aorist active indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AAI-3P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: third Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
12%delivered
delivered12% · 14×betraying7% · 9×will betray6% · 7×gave up5% · 6×he may betray4% · 5×delivering up4% · 5×delivered up3% · 4×he delivered3% · 4×other renderings55% · 67×

121 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 55 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb99%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 119 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
ὅςArticle theδοῦλος (II)
Article the
ἸούδαςJudah, Judas, JuεἰμίI am, existἐγγίζωI come near, app
ἄνθρωποςa man, one of the hu
Article the
σύ
ἐκπότεIrgκἀγώ
ὅς
σύδιάἔθοςa custom
παραδίδωμιthey gave up119×
what comes after →
αὐτός
Article theλέγωI say, speakδίδωμιI offer, give
Article the
ἀρχιερεύςhigh priest, chiχάριςgrace, favor, kiἀντίδικοςan opponent, adv
εἰς
χείρa handArticle theφυλακήa watching, guar
ἐγώ
Article theἐγγίζωI come near, appμετά
σύ
εἰςμήNegἐγώ

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceπαραδίδωμι · 119× in the New Testament
Matthew Mark Luke John Acts 1 Corinthians Romans Ephesians 2 Peter 1 Peter 1 Timothy 2 Corinthians

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament14 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 103 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 78c. AD 40

ἐν αἷς ἁπάσαις τὴν ἀρχέτυπον καὶ ἀληθῆ καὶ παραδειγματικὴν μουσικὴν οὐκ ἂν ἁμαρτάνοι τις εἶναι λέγων, ἀφ’ ἧς οἱ μετὰ ταῦτα ἄνθρωποι γραψάμενοι ἐν ταῖς ἑαυτῶν ψυχαῖς τὰς εἰκόνας ἀναγκαιοτάτην καὶ ὠφελιμωτάτην τέχνην τῷ βίῳ παρέδοσαν.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.12c. AD 75–95

οὐδὲ γὰρ πᾶσαν ἐκεῖνος ἔφθη λαβεῖν τὴν ἀναγραφήν, ἀλλὰ μόνα τὰ τοῦ νόμου παρέδοσαν οἱ πεμφθέντες ἐπὶ τὴν ἐξήγησιν εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν·

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 5.1c. AD 100

Εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ὑπέμεινεν ὁ κύριος παραδοῦναι τὴν σάρκα εἰς καταφθοράν, ἵνα τῇ ἀφέσει τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἁγνισθῶμεν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ αἵματι τοῦ ῥαντίσματος αὐτοῦ.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 6th c. AD 5th c. AD
P.Lond. 7 1998Alexandria251 BC

r Γλαῦκος Ζήνωνι χαίρειν. παρέδωκεν Δημήτριος Σαραπίωνι καὶ Κράτωνι τοῖς Ἀπολλωνίου ταμίαις δορκάδας … λαγοὺς κζ, τούτων τεθνηκότας ιθ,

P.Lond. 7 2008Philadelphia (Arsinoites)248 BC

διάλογον ἐποιησάμην εἰς δραχμὰς υ. τὰ δὲ ὀφειλήματά ἐστιν ἀδύνατα τοὺς ἐν Ἡφαιστιάδι σκορδευτὰς παρέδωκα εἰς τὸ ἐννόμιον καὶ τὰ φορτία αὐτῶν Ἀριστάνδρωι τῶι οἰκονόμωι. Ἐτέαρχος δὲ ἔφη αὑτοῦ

v ἔτους λϛ Ἐπεὶφ δ παρέδωκα Σεμμώνθει· προσκεφάλαια ἀνθεινὰ ζ ἄλλον λευκὸν α, ἄλλον παλαιὸν α γίνονται θ, ἐπικρεμαστὸς ταρσός

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
τῇho <the> G3588 Article · dative · singular · feminine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Ephesians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for 'the' or 'this', used to point out a specific person or thing, like in Acts 17:28. It can also mean 'he', 'she', or 'it'.
Tyndale gloss
the/this/who
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὁ, ἡ, τό,

the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.

As demonstr. pron.

As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).

Distributive, ὁ μὲν . . . ὁ δέ, the one . . . the other: I Co 7:7, Ga 4:22; pl., Ac 14:4, 17:32, Phl 1:16, al.; οἱ μὲν . . . ἄλλοι δέ, Mt 16:14, Jo 7:12; οἱ μεν̀ . . . ὁ δέ, He 7:21, 23.

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…

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ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.

ὁ,

ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,

__A demonstrative Pronoun.

__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.

__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὁ ἡ τό

ho

he hay, and the neuter

to to

in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be

supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,

he, she, it, etc.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὁ, ἡ, τό

Article

the

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὁ ho 19x

the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὁ the, that

ὁ, ἡ, τό, is

demonstr. Pronoun.

the definite Article.

in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.

DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:

joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Art-DSF — Article · dative · singular · feminine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-DSF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Dative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.

1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.

This he calls the preaching of the cross.

2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.

3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.

Th' adorning thee with so much art,

Is but a barb'rous skill.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
64%the
the64% · 13160×<the>28% · 5846×those3% · 597×other renderings4% · 788×other renderings1% · 294×

20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject34%adverbial32%object24%predicate5%indirect object4%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 19,783 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςεἰμίI am, existἐγώ
ἐν
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςArticle the
εἰς
αὐτόςεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inἔρχομαιI come, go
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the otheπρός
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςσύἐγώ
<the>19783×
what comes after →
θεόςGod, a god
Article theκαίand, even, also,ἐγώ
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakἸησοῦςJesusἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
ἸησοῦςJesus
λέγωI say, speakκαίand, even, also,Article the
κύριοςlord, Lord, master,
ἐγώἸησοῦςJesusArticle the
πατήρfather, Father, ance
ἐγώσύαὐτός

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordance · 19,783× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts Luke John Revelation Mark Romans 1 Corinthians Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
ἀσελγείᾳaselgeia to sensuality G766 Noun · dative · singular · feminine
10× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Debauchery refers to licentiousness or wantonness, involving excessive and immoral behavior. It is mentioned in Mark 7:22, Galatians 5:19, and 1 Peter 4:3 as a vice to be avoided.
Amplified meaning
lasciviousness, debauchery
Tyndale gloss
debauchery
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἀσέλγεια (i.e., *aselgeia*) refers to licentiousness, wantonness, or excess. It is built from a negative particle and a root meaning 'continent,' suggesting a lack of restraint. The term appears in several New Testament passages, including Mark 7:22 and Romans 13:13. Some lexicographers offer differing views on its etymology, but the general consensus is that it denotes unbridled lust and shameless behavior.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

** ἀσέλγεια, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀσελγής, licentious; v. MM, s.v.),

[in LXX: Wi 14:26, III Mac 2:26*;]

licentiousness, wantonness, excess: Mk 7:22, Ro 13:13, II Co 12:21, Ga 5:19 (Lft., in l.), Eph 4:19, I Pe 4:3, II Pe 2:2, 7, 18, Ju 4.†

SYN.: ἀσωτία, profligacy, prodigality (v. Tr., Syn., § xvi; DB, iii, 46).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἀσέλγεια, -as, 7, the conduct and character of one who is ἀσελγής (a word which some suppose to be compounded of a priv. and Σέλγη, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals [so Etym. Magn. 152, 38; per contra ef. Suidas 603 d.]; others of a intens. and σαλαγεῖν to disturb, raise a din; others, and now the majority, of a priv. and σέλγω i. q. θέλγω. not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust), wnbridled lust, excess, licentiousnéss, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence: Mk. vii. 22 (where it is uncertain what particular vice is spoken of); of gluttony and venery, Jude 4; plur., 1 Pet. iv. 3; 2 Pet. ii. 2 (for Rec. ἀπωλείαις), 18; of carnality, lasciviousness: 2 Co. xii. 21; Gal. v.19; Eph.iv. 19; 2 Pet. ii. 7; plur. “wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἀσέλγεια appeared in P Magd 245 according to the original reading, but has been corrected in the new edition. The adj. appears among a number of technical epithets of ζῴδια in Vettius Valens p. 3355". -Ὦ χερσαῖα ἢ ἀσελγῆ ἢ λατρευτικὰ καὶ τὰ λοιπά. An obscure and badly-spelt document of iv/v A.D., BGU IV. 1024 ¥: 2", seems to contain this noun in the form ἀθελγία- -ἀλλὰ ᾿ναντία Kal ταύτης ὑπὸ σοῦ γενόμενον ἀθελγία ἐλενλέχ[ο]υσα τὰ πεπραγμένα, which the editor understands as = ἀλλ᾽ ἐναντία ταύτῃ ἡ ὑπὸ σοῦ γενομένη ἀθελγία ἐλέγχουσα κτλ. But we mention this passage only to note how early the popular etymology was current connecting it with @€Ayw. It is dubious at best, and the history of the word is really unknown ; but cf. Havers in /zdogerm. Forschungen xxviii (1911) p. 194 ff., who, adopting the foregoing etymology, understands ἀσελγής as = “‘ geschlagen,” then ‘‘ wahnsinnig,” and then…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἀσέλγεια (aselgeia) — debauchery.

ἀσέλγ-εια, ἡ,

licentiousness, wanton violence, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; insolence, opposed to κολακεία, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. licentiousness, περὶ τὰς σωματικὰς ἐπιθυμίας[Refs 2nd c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀσέλγεια

aselgeia

from a compound of 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed

selges (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning

continent); licentiousness (sometimes including other

vices):--filthy, lasciviousness, wantonness.

see GREEK for 1

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀσέλγεια, ας, ἡ

n.f.

wantonness, lewdness

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀσέλγεια aselgeia 10x

intemperance; licentiousness, lasciviousness, Rom. 13:13; insolence, outrageous behavior, Mk. 7:22

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀσέλγεια ἀσελγής licentiousness, Plat., Dem.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-DSF — Noun · dative · singular · feminine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-DSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Dative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Nave's Topical Bible

→ General scriptures concerning Ec 2:24; 8:15; 11:9; Isa 22:13; 56:12; Lu 12:19,20; 16:25; 1Co 15:32,33; Jas 5:5; Jude 1:18,19

→ See ADULTERY

→ See DRUNKENNESS

→ See FORNICATION

→ See GLUTTONY

→ See LASCIVIOUSNESS

→ See SELF-INDULGENCE

→ See SODOMY

→ Also see ABSTINENCE, TOTAL

→ See CONTINENCE

→ See SELF-DENIAL

→ See TEMPERANCE

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%sensuality
sensuality100% · 10×

10 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial70%predicate10%object10%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 10 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
κοίτηa bed, marriage πορνείαfornication, ido
Article the
παραδίδωμιI hand over, delαὐτός
ἐν
πορεύομαιI travel, journeἄθεσμοςlawless
δόλοςdeceit, guile, treac
πονηρίαwickedness, iniq
ἀκαθαρσίαuncleanness, impurit
πορνείαfornication, ido
ἀσέλγειαto sensuality10×
what comes after →
ὀφθαλμόςthe eye
πονηρόςevil, bad, wicke
μήNeg
ἔριςcontention, stri
ὅς
πράσσωI do, fare, requ
εἰς
ἐργασίαworking, activit
ἐπιθυμίαdesire, eagerness fo
οἰνοφλυγίαdrunkenness

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἀσέλγεια · 10× in the New Testament
2 Peter 1 Peter 2 Corinthians Ephesians Galatians Jude Mark Romans
Across the New Testament8 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Special Laws 3.23c. AD 40

ὁ δὲ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων χλεύην θέμενος τὴν ἑκατέρων εὐλάβειαν ὡς ἡμίεργα διαταταττομένων εὐφόρησεν εἰς ἀσέλγειαν, ἐπιδαψιλευόμενος δυσθεράπευτον κακὸν σώμασι καὶ ψυχαῖς ἀκρασίαν καὶ παρασχὼν ἄδειαν ἁπάσας ἀδελφὰς ἄγεσθαι, τάς τε ἰδίας τοῦ ἑτέρου τῶν…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 8.318c. AD 75–95

ἦν δὲ τὸ γύναιον δραστήριόν τε καὶ τολμηρόν, εἰς τοσαύτην δὲ ἀσέλγειαν καὶ μανίαν προύπεσεν, ὥστε καὶ ναὸν τῷ Τυρίων θεῷ ὃν Βελίαν προσαγορεύουσιν ᾠκοδόμησε καὶ ἄλσος παντοίων δένδρων κατεφύτευσε·

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 26.15.3c. AD 140

αἱ δὲ ἀκόλουθοι αὐτῶν καλοῦνται Λύπη, Πονηρία, Ἀσέλγεια, Ὀξυχολία, Ψεῦδος, Ἀφροσύνη, Καταλαλιά, Μῖσος.

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3rd c. AD 6th c. AD
BGU 7 1578Philadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 212

ἡ δὲ ἴσως ἂν ἀπαίδευτος οὖσα … καὶ ἀχθομένη τῷ ὑποχειρίαν μοι εἶναι πᾶσαν ἀσέλγειαν … ἀμνηστίαν ποιησαμένη ἧς τε μετὰ καμάτου … … αὐτῇ παρέσχον τὴν ἐλπίδα εχ

ἐχρεώστουν τὴν δόσιν ὑπὲρ σοῦ τῷ σῷ δανειστῇ, καὶ μηδαμῶς δυνησομένου δυσπραγίᾳ χρήσασθαι ἢ ἀσελγείᾳ καὶ ἀσωτίας ἔργοις καὶ ὑπερθέσει χρήσεσθαι καθʼ οἱανοῦν δήποτε πρόφασιν περὶ τὴν ἀπόδοσιν τῶν

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
εἰςeis for G1519 Preposition
1,766× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Ephesians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means toward or into, indicating direction or purpose, as seen in Matthew 8:23 and Mark 1:45. It can also imply a sense of movement or action. The KJV translates it in various ways.
Tyndale gloss
toward
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

εἰς is a preposition meaning 'into' or 'to,' used with the accusative case. It indicates direction, entrance, or limit, applicable to place, time, and figurative purposes. The New Testament frequently employs it to express movement toward locations or states, as seen in passages like Matthew 8:23. It can also denote relationships or results, such as 'for' or 'among.'

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

εἰς,

prep. c. acc.,

expressing entrance, direction, limit, into, unto, to, upon, towards, for, among (Lat. in, c. acc.).

Of place.

After verbs of motion;

of entrance into: Mt 8:23 9:7, Mk 1:45, Lk 2:15 8:31, al.;

of approach, to or towards: Mk 11:1, Lk 6:8 19:28, Jo 11:31 21:6, al.;

before pl. and collective nouns, among: Mk 4:7 8:19, 20, Lk 11:49, Jo 21:23, al.;

Of a limit reached, unto, on, upon: Mt 8:18, 21:1, Mk…

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

εἰς, a Prep. governing the Accusative, and denoting entrance into, or direction and limit: into, to, towards, for, among. It is used A. Property I. of Place, after verbs of going, coming, sailing, flying, falling, living, leading, carrying, throwing, sending, etc. ; 1. of a place entered, or of entrance into a place, into; and 8. it stands before nouns designating an open place, a hollow thing, or one in which an object can be hidden: as εἰς (τὴν) πόλιν, Mt. xxvi. 18; xxviii. 11; Mk. i. 45, and often; εἰς r. οἶκον, Mt. ix. 7; συναγωγήν, Acts xvii. 10; πλοῖον, Mt. viii. 23; Jn. vi. 17; Acts xxi. 6; θάλασσαν, Mt. xvii. 27; ἄβυσσον, Lk. viii. 31; οὐρανόν, Lk. ii. 15; κόσμον, In. 1. 9; iii. 19, ete.; τὰ ἴδια, Jn. i. 11; xvi. 32; Acts xxi. 6; ἀποθήκην, Mt. iii. 12; εἰς ra ὦτα, Lk. i. 44; εἰς τὰς ζώνας or ζώνην, Mt. x. 9; Mk. vi. 8, etc.; εἰς ἀέρα, 1 Co. xiv. 9; eis πῦρ, Mk. ix. 22, ete.…

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εἰς ἁλιέων εἰς ᾿Αλεξάνδριί[αν (P Oxy II. 2943 = Selections, Ρ- 34): see further Pro/eg. pp. 234 f., 245. For εἰς in the wide sense in which we use ‘‘for” we may cite such passages as P Lille I. 261 (iii/B.c.) ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ τῆς εἰς THY σησαμείαν γῆς, 20." ἕως ἂν] μάθωμεν περὶ τῶν κ[εχρ]ηματισμένων εἰς τὸν νομόν, P Petr II. 11 (1)" (mid. iii/B.c.) (= Witkowski*, p. 8) ἀπὸ τούτου τὸ μὲν ἥμυσυ εἰς τὰ δέοντα ὑπελιπόμην, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν εἰς τὸ δάνειον κατέβαλον, P Lond 43? (ii/B.c.) (=I. p. 48, Witkowski’, p- 110) ἕξεις ἐφόδιον εἰς τὸ γῆρας, P Tebt I. 577 (8.6. 118) προστε]τάχασι δὲ καὶ τὰ els τὴν ταφὴν τοῦ “Amos, P Oxy I. 379 (A.D. 149) (= Selections, p. 49) ἐγένετο ἐνθάδε ἡ τροφεῖτις εἰς υἱὸν tod ΤΠεσούριος, ‘‘there was concluded here the nursing-contract for the son of Pesouris”; and the recurring formulae in a private account of ς. A.D. 15 τό. 1V. 736° θρύων εἰς τοὺς ἄρτους (ὀβολοὶ δύο)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

εἰς (eis) — toward.

ἐν εἰς

or ἐς, PREP. WITH ACC. ONLY:—both forms are found in [Refs 8th c.BC+], Ionic dialect poets, and early metrical Inscrr.; ἐς is best attested in [Refs 5th c.BC+], and is found in nearly all early Ionic dialect Inscrr. (except [Refs 5th c.BC+]; and usually in Attic dialect Prose (except [Refs 5th c.BC+] is used before vowels for the sake of meter; ἐς was retained in the phrases ἐς κόρακας (whence the Verb σκορακίζω), ἐς μακαρίαν. Aeolic dialect poets have εἰς before vowels, ἐς before consonants, and this is given as the rule in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; compare ἐν, ἰν. The diphthong is genuine in Aeolic dialect εἰς, but spurious in Attic dialect-Ionic dialect) Radical sense into, and then more loosely, to:

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

εἰς

eis

a primary preposition; to or into (indicating the point reached or

entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.);

also in adverbial phrases:--(abundant-)ly, against, among, as, at,

(back-)ward, before, by, concerning, + continual, + far more

exceeding, for (intent, purpose), fore,

+ forth, in (among, at, unto, -so much that, -to), to the

intent that, + of one mind, + never, of, (up-)on, + perish, + set at

one again, (so) that, therefore(-unto), throughout, til, to (be, the

end, -ward), (here-)until(-to), ...ward, (where-)fore, with. Often

used in composition with the same general import, but only with verbs

(etc.) expressing motion (literally or figuratively).

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

εἰς

Prep.

into, in, among, till, for

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

εἰς

into, to c. acc.

PREP. WITH ACC. ONLY. Radical sense, into, and then to:

OF PLACE, the commonest usage, εἰς ἅλα into or to the sea, Hom., etc.:—properly opposed to ἐκ, ἐς σφυρὸν ἐκ πτέρνης from head to foot, Il.; εἰς ἔτος ἐξ ἔτεος from year to year, Theocr.:—then, with all Verbs implying motion or direction, ἰδεῖν εἰς οὐρανόν Il.; εἰς ὦπα ἰδέσθαι to look in the face, id. Il.:—in Hom. and Hdt. also c. acc. pers., where the attic use ὡς, πρός, παρά.

with Verbs which express rest in a place, when a previous motion into or to it is implied, ἐς μέγαρον κατέθηκε, i. e. he brought it into the house, and put it there, Od.; παρεῖναι ἐς τόπον to go to a place and be there, Hdt.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Prep — Preposition
preposition — its sense depends on the case of the word it governs.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

PREP PREPosition

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

for (ki (conjunction), le, from 'el (preposition), and various other words. In the New Testament also the words are various, chiefly gar, kai gar, hoti (conjunctions); anti apo eis dia (accusative), epi (dative and accusative), peri (genitive), pros (genitive and accusative), huper (genitive) (prepositions)): the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version give in many cases more literal or more accurate renderings than those in the King James Version.

In the New Testament the most important preps. from a doctrinal point of view are anti, "face to face," "over against," "instead," "on behalf of," peri, "around," "about," "concerning," huper, "over," "on behalf of." The first has been claimed as stating the substitutionary nature of Christ's sacrifice as contrasted with huper and peri, more frequently used of it. But, although anti in the New Testament often means…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
33%into
into33% · 595×to32% · 570×for10% · 185×in9% · 160×unto4% · 69×toward2% · 44×other renderings8% · 145×other renderings2% · 29×

1,797 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 37 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial95%predicate3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 1,766 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
βάλλωI cast, throw, rεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inδέbut, on the othe
εἰσέρχομαιI go in, come in, en
καίand, even, also,μήNegαὐτός
ἔρχομαιI come, go
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςοὗτος
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςἐκκόπτωI cut out, cut oπόλιςa city
ἐγώ
εἰμίI am, existκαίand, even, also,δίδωμιI offer, give
εἰςfor1766×
what comes after →
Article the
αἰώνan age, a cycle οἶκοςa house, househoοὐρανόςthe sky, the hea
αὐτός
Article theκαίand, even, also,οὗτος
ἹεροσόλυμαJerusalem
καίand, even, also,εἰςὅτιthat, since, bec
ὅς
καίand, even, also,δέbut, on the otheἄνDisj
σύ
καίand, even, also,μήNegἐν

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Concordanceεἰς · 1,766× in the New Testament
Acts Luke Matthew John Mark Romans Revelation 2 Corinthians Hebrews 1 Peter 1 Corinthians Ephesians

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 9c. AD 40

τὸ δὲ παθητὸν ἄψυχον καὶ ἀκίνητον ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ, κινηθὲν δὲ καὶ σχηματισθὲν καὶ ψυχωθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ νοῦ μετέβαλεν εἰς τὸ τελειότατον ἔργον, τόνδε τὸν κόσμον·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ὅτι λιμοῦ τὴν Χαναναίαν καταλαβόντος εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπῆρε καὶ διατρίψας ἐν αὐτῇ τινα χρόνον ὑπέστρεψεν ὀπίσω.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.2c. AD 100

Μεγάλων μὲν ὄντων καὶ πλουσίων τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιωμάτων εἰς ὑμᾶς, ὑπέρ τι καὶ καθ̓ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερευφραίνομαι ἐπὶ τοῖς μακαρίοις καὶ ἐνδόξοις ὑμῶν πνεύμασιν: οὕτως ἔμφυτον τῆς δωρεᾶς πνευματικῆς χάριν εἰλήφατε.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD 2nd c. BC
P.Grenf. 2 33Pathyris101 BC

καὶ τοῖς μετόχοις γῆς σιτοφόρου λεγομένης Νεχθαραῦτι θεοῦ μεγάλου παρὰ τῶν ἱερέων ἐτῶν δέκα εἰς τὰ ἐνλιπόντα αὐτῷ ἑτέρων , τεσσάρων εἰς συμπλήρωσιν ἐτῶν πέντε , ὥστε γεωργῆσαι ἧς

BGU 3 999Pathyris100 BC

καὶ ἀπηλιώτου τὸ λοιπὸν τῆς Εὐνόου οἰκίας λιβὸς ῥύμη ἐφ ᾧ ἀνοίξει τὴν θύραν εἰς τὴν Ὀρσηοῦς οἰκίαν ἢ οἳ ἂν ὦσι γείτονες πάντοθεν. ἐπρίατο Πετεσοῦχος Νεχθανούπιος ὡς ἐτῶν

P.Adl. 17Krokodilopolis (Pathyrites)100 BC

ος, βορρᾶ γῆ Σχώτου τοῦ Τρύφωνος, ἀπηλιώτου τὸ λοιπὸν τῆς γῆς, λιβὸς ἡ φέρουσα εἰς τὸ Κρόνειον ὁδός, ἢ οἳ ἂν ὦσι γείτονες πάντοθεν. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου Πέρσης τῆς

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
ἐργασίανergasia [the] working G2039 Noun · accusative · singular · feminine
6× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This term refers to work, business, or occupation, and can also imply profit or pains. In Acts, it describes a business or trade, while in Ephesians, it refers to working or performance.
Amplified meaning
working, occupation
Tyndale gloss
work
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἐργασία (ergasia) means work or business and is derived from ἔργον (ergon). It encompasses a range of meanings, including daily labor, performance, and trade. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts related to work and profit, such as in Acts 16:16 and Luke 12:58. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meanings.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐργασία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἔργον),

[in LXX for מְלָאכָה, עֲבֹדָה, etc. ;]

work, business: Ac 16:16, 19 19:24, 25; δὸς ἐ. (Lat. da operam), Lk 12:58.

working, performance: Eph 4:19.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἐργασία, -as, ἡ, (ἐργάζομαι) ; 1. i. q. τὸ ἐργάζεσθαι, a working, performing: ἀκαθαρσίας, Eph. iv. 19. 2. work, business: Acts xix. 25 (Xen. oec. 6, 8 et al.). 3. gain got by work, profit: Acts xvi. 19; παρέχειν ἐργασίαν τινί, ib. 16; xix. 24 [yet al. refer this to 2 above]; (Xen. mem. 3, 10,1; eyneg. 3,3; Polyb. 4, 50, 3). 4. endeavor, pains, [A. V. diligence]: δίδωμι ἐργασίαν, after the Latinism operam do, Lk. xii. 58 (Hermog. de invent. 3, 5, 7).

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἐργασία. P Tebt II. 286% (A.p. 121-138) τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰς ἐργασίας ἀπολήμψεται ᾿Απολλ[ω]νίδης rapa tod’ Αντωνίνονυ τοῦ κληρονόμου, “ Apollonides shall receive back the slaves and their labour from Antoninus, the heir” (Edd.), P Fay 211% (A.D. 134) elt? ἐν γένεσιν εἴτ᾽ ἐν ἀργυρίῳ εἴτ᾽ ἐν σωματικαῖς ἐργασίαις, ‘‘whether in kind or in money or in bodily labour” (Edd.), P Oxy XII. 15818 (ii/A.p.) Σαραπίωνα μὴ ἀφῇς ἀργεῖν καὶ ῥέμβεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἰς ἐργασίαν αὐτὸν βάλε. For the word = “business,” ‘‘trade,” see P Lond οοῦδ (A.D. 128) (=IIT. p. 108) βουλόμεθα ἐπιχωρηθῆναι πίαρ᾽] ὑμῶν τὴν χρυσοχ[οϊἹκὴν ἐργασίαν, “we wish that a grant should be made by you of your gold-smith’s business,” P Fay 937 (A.D. 161) βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὴν μυροπῳλαϊκὴν καὶ ἀροματικὴν ἐργασίαν, “1 wish to lease from you your business of perfume-selling and unguentmaking” (Edd.), P Tebt 11. 287% (A.p. 161-9) οἱ μὲν…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἐργασία (ergasia) — work.

ἐργᾰσ-ία,

Ionic dialect -ιη, Cretan dialect ϝεργασία [Refs] work, business, [Refs], etc.; opposed to ἀργία, [Refs 5th c.BC+] productive labour, [Refs 5th c.BC+] if no work was done, [Refs 4th c.BC+] with infinitive, Latin da operam ut.., NT.Luke.12.58, compare [Refs 6th c.BC+]

2. function, [Refs 2nd c.AD+].

II. working at, making, manufacture, ἱματίων, ὑποδημάτων, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+]; making up of a prescription, [Refs 5th c.BC+] taken in the part wrought by thy hands, [Refs 5th c.BC+] production of pleasure, [Refs 5th c.BC+] money-making, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II.2. working of a material, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χαλκοῦ, ἐρίων, ξύλων, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: most commonly, tillage of the ground, ἐ. γῆς, χώρας, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. περὶ τὴν τροφήν preparation (i.e. mastication and digestion) of food, [Refs 4th c.BC+]…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐργασία

ergasia

from 2040; occupation; by implication, profit, pains:--craft,

diligence, gain, work.

see GREEK for 2040

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἐργασία, ας, ἡ

n.f.

working, activity, trade, performance

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐργασία ergasia 6x

work, labor; in NT ἐργασίαν διδόναι, to endeavor, strive, Lk. 12:58; performance, practice, Eph. 4:19; a trade, business, craft, Acts 19:25, gain acquired by labor or trade, profit, Acts 16:16, 19; 19:24*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἐργασία ἐργα^σία, ἡ, ἐργάζομαι work, daily labour, business, Lat. labor, Hhymn., attic; δὸς ἐργασίαν, c. inf., Lat. da operam ut . . , NTest.

a working at, making, building, τειχῶν Thuc.; ἱματίων, ὑποδημάτων Plat., etc.

a working of a material, τοῦ σιδήρου Hdt.; τῶν χρυσείων μετάλλων Thuc., Ar., etc.

generally, trade, commerce, Xen., Dem.

a practising, exercising, τῶν τεχνῶν Plat.

a work of art, production, τετράγωνος ἐργ., of the Hermae, Thuc.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-ASF — Noun · accusative · singular · feminine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-ASF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
33%business
business33% · 2×gain17% · 1×profit17% · 1×working17% · 1×earnestness17% · 1×

6 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 5 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
object50%subject17%predicate17%adverbial17%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 6 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
ἐλπίςhope, expectatioοὗτος
δίδωμιI offer, give
ὁδόςa way, road, jou
ὅστις
ἐγώ
ὀλίγος& Adv
οὐNeg
εἰς
ἀσέλγειαwantonness, lewd
ἐργασία[the] working
what comes after →
ἀπαλλάσσωI free from
ἀπό
πολύςmuch, many, often
παρέχωI offer, provide
αὐτός
ἐπιλαμβάνομαιI seize, take ho
Article the
εὐπορίαwealth, gain
ἀκαθαρσίαuncleanness, impurit
πᾶςall, the whole,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἐργασία · 6× in the New Testament
Acts Ephesians Luke
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 28 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaOn Husbandry 3c. AD 40

τίνι γὰρ τῶν προχειροτέρων οὐκ ἂν δόξειε τὰ αὐτὰ εἶναι γεωργία τε καὶ γῆς ἐργασία, καίτοι πρὸς ἀλήθειαν οὐ μόνον οὐκ ὄντα τὰ αὐτά, ἀλλὰ καὶ λίαν ἀπηρτημένα, ὡς ἀντιστατεῖν καὶ διαμάχεσθαι;

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 3.35c. AD 75–95

φροντίζει γὰρ καὶ τοῦ μὴ σὺν πόνῳ μηδʼ ἐργασίᾳ τὸ ποτὸν αὐτοῖς φανῆναι.

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6th c. AD 2nd c. AD 4th c. AD 3rd c. AD 5th c. AD
CdÉ 12 (1937), p. 281-Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 47

Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος , τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀπύνχεος εἰσάγοντος τὰ δημόσια τῆς αὐτῆς ἐργασίας ἅπαντα τοῦ αὐτοῦ εἰσιόντος ἔτους, καὶ πάντας ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ πωλεῖν τόν τε ἅλα

P.Lond. 3 p. 107-108 no. 906Euhemeria (Arsinoites)AD 128

Πρείσκου ἀπολυσίμου ἀπὸ στρατείας ὥς φησι ἐντίμως ἀπολυσίμου. βουλόμεθα ἐπιχωρηθῆναι παρʼ ὑμῶν τὴν χρυσοχοικὴν ἐργασίαν … … κώμης Εὐημερείας εἰς ἔτη τέσσαρα ἔτι ἀπὸ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος τρεισκαιδεκάτου

O.Claud. 4 767Mons ClaudianusAD 138–AD 161

ἐργασίαν ἔγραψα μέχρει τῆς ιη τοῦ Μ … τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς ἡμέρας γράψω μέχρει τῆς

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
ἀκαθαρσίαςakatharsia of impurity G167 Noun · genitive · singular · feminine
10× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for impurity refers to something being unclean, either physically or morally. In the New Testament, it appears in passages like Matthew 23:27 and Romans 1:24. This concept is also seen in 2 Corinthians 12:21 and Galatians 5:19.
Amplified meaning
uncleanness, immorality
Tyndale gloss
impurity
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia) means uncleanness or impurity, derived from ἀκάθαρτος (akathartos). It encompasses both physical and moral aspects, appearing in contexts related to moral depravity and ceremonial impurity. The New Testament uses it in various passages, notably in relation to lustful living and impure motives.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἀκαθαρσία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀκάθαρτος),

[in LXX chiefly for טֻמְאָה, טָמֵא;]

uncleanness, impurity,

physical (MM, VGT, s.v.): Mt 23:27;

moral: Ro 1:24 6:19, II Co 12:21, Ga 5:19, Eph 4:19 5:3, Col 3:5, I Th 2:3 4:7.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἀκαθαρσία, -as, 7, (ἀκάθαρτος), [fr. Hippoer. down], uncleanness ; a. physical: Mt. xxiii. 27. b. in a moral sense, the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living: Ro. i. 24; vi. 19; 2 Co. xii. 21; Gal. v. 19; Eph. iv. 19; v. 3; Col. iii. 5; 1 Th. iv. 7; used of impure motives in 1 Th. ii. 3. (Dem. p. 553, 12.) Cf. Tittmann i. p. 150 sq.

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἀκαθαρσία. In a literal sense the noun occurs in a formula used in agreements for renting houses, which the tenant undertakes to leave in good condition. Thus P Oxy VIII. 112828 (a.p. 173) παραδότω τοὺς τόπους καθαροὺς ἀπὸ κοπρίων καὶ πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας : 20. VI. 912° (A.D. 235), BGU II. 393}Ὁ (A.D. 168) dv[ev] ἀκαθαρσία[ς], P Lond 21628 (A.D. 94) ἀκάθαρτος 17 (=II. p. 187), P Lips I. 1619 (a.p. 138) where ἀπό stands without καθαρούς (see under ἀπό). Vettius Valens, p. 219, has it in conjunction with κιναιδία : Kroll takes it as ‘‘ ozs impuadicitia (?).

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia) — impurity.

ἀκᾰθαρ-σία, ἡ,

uncleanness, foulness, of a wound or sore, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__b dirt, filth, [Refs 1st c.BC+]

2. in moral sense, depravity, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

3. ceremonial impurity, [LXX]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀκαθαρσία

akatharsia

from 169; impurity (the quality), physically or morally:--uncleanness.

see GREEK for 169

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀκαθαρσία, ας, ἡ

n.f.

uncleanness, impurity

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀκαθαρσία akatharsia 10x

uncleanness; lewdness; impurity of motive, 1 Thess. 2:3

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀκαθαρσία from ἀκάθαρτος uncleanness, impurity, Dem.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-GSF — Noun · genitive · singular · feminine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-GSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

im-pu'-ri-ti.

See UNCLEANNESS.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%impurity
impurity100% · 10×

10 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial40%object20%predicate20%indirect object10%subject10%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 10 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
δοῦλος (II)ἐπί
πορνείαfornication, idolatr
εἰμίI am, existγῆthe earth, soil,
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
καίand, even, also,
εἰς
αὐτός
ἐργασίαworking, activity, t
εἰς
ἀκαθαρσίαof impurity10×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theπορνείαfornication, ido
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
ἐνDisj
Article the
ἀτιμάζωI disgrace, dish
ἀσέλγειαwantonness, lewdness
πάθοςsuffering, emotion,
ἐπιθυμίαdesire, eagernes

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἀκαθαρσία · 10× in the New Testament
1 Thessalonians Ephesians Romans 2 Corinthians Colossians Galatians Matthew
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 38 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 1.52c. AD 40

οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι, κἂν εἰσαγάγῃ ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ εἰσαχθέντες φυτεύσωμεν ἄκαρπον μὲν οὐδὲν „πᾶν δὲ ξύλον βρώσιμον“, κελεύει "περικαθαρίσαι τὴν ἀκαθαρσίαν αὐτοῦ“ (Lev.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 10.8c. AD 100

οὐ μή, φησίν, γενηθῇς τοιοῦτος, οἵους ἀκούομεν ἀνομίαν ποιοῦντας ἐν τῷ στόματι δἰ ἀκαθαρσίαν, οὐδὲ κολληθήσῃ ταῖς ἀκαθάρτοις ταῖς τὴν ἀνομίαν ποιούσαις ἐν τῷ στόματι.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 1st c. AD 1st c. BC 2nd c. BC
BGU 4 1117Alexandria14 BC

τοῦ δὲ χρόνου διελθόντος παραδώσειν τὸ ἐργαστήριον καθαρὸν ἀπό τε σίτου καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀκαθαρσίας σὺν τοῖς κατʼ αὐτὸ σκεύεσι καὶ κλιβάνοις οἷα ἐὰν ἔτι ᾖ ἐκ τῆς χρήσεως,

P.Lond. 2 p. 186-187 no. 216Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)AD 94

ὧν ἔχω ἐν τῶι ἐποικίωι ἐν μισθώσει μισθωμάτων, … παραδόσθαι τὸν θησαυρὸν ἀπὸ πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας σὺν ταῖς ἐφεστώσαις θύραισι καὶ κλεισὶ, ἐὰν φαίνηται μισθῶσαι ἐπὶ τοῖς προκειμένοις. Ἑριεὺς Ἑριέως

υλω … καὶ δώματι· καὶ μετὰ τὸν χρόνον παραδώσω τὴν οἰκίαν καθαρὰν ἀπὸ πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας σὺν ταῖς ἐφεστώσαις θύραις καὶ κλεισί, ἐὰν φαίνηται ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς προκειμένοις, ἀμεταμίσθωτα καὶ

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
πάσηςpas all G3956 Adjective · genitive · singular · feminine
1,242× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means all or every, as in Matthew 3:10 and Romans 7:8, where it refers to everything or all people, emphasizing the universal nature of God's message.
Amplified meaning
all, every type
Tyndale gloss
all
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word πᾶς (i.e., *pas*) means 'all' or 'every' and appears in various forms, including masculine, feminine, and neuter. It is used in the New Testament to denote totality, as in 'all things' or 'every kind,' and can function as an adjective or pronoun. Notably, it can also imply 'the whole' when used with definite articles, as seen in verses like Matthew 28:18.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν, gen., παντός, πάσης, παντός,

[in LXX chiefly for כֹּל;]

all, every.

As adj.,

c. subst. anarth., all, every, of every kind: Mt 3:10 4:23, Mk 9:49, Lk 4:37, Jo 2:10, Ac 27:20, Ro 7:8, Re 18:17, al. mult.; pl., all, Ac 22:15, Ro 5:12, He 1:6, al.; of the highest degree, π. ἐξουσία (προθυμία, χαρά), Mt 28:18,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν, en. παντός, πάσης, παντός, [dat. plur. Lchm. πᾶσι ten times, -σιν seventy-two times; Tdf. -σι five times (see Proleg. p. 98 sq.), -ow seventy-seven times; Treg. -ow eighty-two times; WH -ox fourteen times, -ow sixty-eight times; see N, v (ἐφελκυστικόν)], Hebr. 75, [fr. Hom. down], all, every; it is used I. adjectively, and 1. with anarthrous nouns; a. any, every one (86. of the class denoted by the noun annexed to mas); with the Singular: as πᾶν δένδρον, Mt. iii. 10; πᾶσα θυσία, Mk. ix. 49 [T WH Tr mrg. om. Tr txt. br. the cl.]; add, Mt. v.11; xv. 13; Lk. iv. 37; Jn.ii. 10; xv.2; Acts ii.43; v.42; Ro. xiv. 11; 1 Co. iv. 17; Rev. xviii. 17, and very often; πᾶσα ψυχὴ ἀνθρώπου, Ro. ii. 9 (πᾶσα ἀνθρ. ψυχή, Plat. Phaedr. p- 249e.); πᾶσα συνείδησις ἀνθρώπων, 2 Co. iv. 2; mas λεγόμενος θεός, 2 Th. ii. 4; πᾶς ἅγιος ἐν Χριστῷ, Phil. iv. 21sqq. with the Plural, all or any that are…

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παῖς. In Gnomon 41 (¢. A.D. 150) it is laid down—éav Αἰγύπτιος ἐκ κοπρίας [ἀν]έληται παῖδα καὶ τοῦτον υἱοποιήσηται, μετὰ θάνατον τεταρτολο[ γεῖτ]αι, ““1Γ an Egyptian shall take up a child from the dungheap, and adopt him as a son, he shall be mulcted after his death to the extent of one fourth of his property.” For παῖς applied to a female child see P Strass I. 41° (A.D. 250) ἐκδικῆσαι τὰ τῆς παιδός, and P Oxy 1 5215 (A.D. 325) εΠδαμὲν τὴν παῖδα ἔχουσαν κατὰ τῶν εἰσχίων ἀμυχὰς μετὰ πελιωμάτων (see 76. II. p. 319), ““νγῈ saw that the girl had wounds on her hips with livid spots”: cf. Lk 8° (for voc. of address see Pro/eg. pp. 70, 235). The word is commonly applied to slaves, as in Lk 77 a/., e.g. P Lille 27 (iii/B.c.), where 11 male slaves are enumerated under the heading παῖδες, then 2 female slaves, and then again 3 male slaves: cf. P Strass I. 405 (a. p. 569) Κολλοῦθος Βίκτορος…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πᾶς (pas) — all.

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν,

__AAeolic dialect παῖς, παῖσα [Refs 7th c.BC+] feminine πάνσα [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect and Delph. πάντεσσι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also Locrian dialect πάντεσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάντοις [Refs 2nd c.BC+] as accusative masculine in [LXX+7th c.BC+], etc. (but in compounds sometimes long in Attic dialect, [Refs].]—Coll. pronoun, when used of a number, all; when of one only, the whole; of the several persons in a number, every.

__A.I in plural, all, πάντες τε θεοὶ πᾶσαί τε θέαιναι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάντες ὅσοι.. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάντας ᾧ ἂνπεριτυγχάνῃ, for ὅσοις ἄν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also with the Article, see.below [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πᾶς

pas

including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all,

any, every, the whole:--all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one),

X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X

thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν

Adj

all, the whole, every kind of

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πᾶς pas 1x

all; in the sg. the whole, entire, usually when the substantive has the article, Mt. 6:29; 8:32; Acts 19:26; every, only with an anarthrous subst., Mt. 3:10; 4:4; pl. all, Mt. 1:17, et al. freq.; πάντα, in all respects, Acts 20:35; 1 Cor. 9:25; 10:33; 11:2; by a Hebraism, a negative with πᾶς is sometimes equivalent to οὐδείς or μηδείς, Mt. 24:22; Lk. 1:37; Acts 10:14; Read the full entry →

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-GSF — Adjective · genitive · singular · feminine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-GSF Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ol: Used in various combinations, and with different meanings.

(1) All along, "Weeping all along as he went" (Jer 41:6), i.e. throughout the whole way he went, feigning equal concern with the men from Shiloh, etc., for the destruction of the Temple, so as to put them off their guard.

(2) All in all, "That God may be all in all" (1Co 15:28, Greek: panta en pasin, "all things in all (persons and) things"). "The universe, with all it comprises, will wholly answer to God's will and reflect His mind" (Dummelow).

(3) All one, "It is all one" (Job 9:22), "it makes no difference whether I live or die."

(4) At all, "If thy father miss me at all" (1Sa 20:6), "in any way," "in the least."

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
62%all
all62% · 789×all things12% · 156×every12% · 150×everyone6% · 76×everything3% · 34×other renderings3% · 40×other renderings2% · 19×

1,264 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 28 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject40%adverbial30%object21%predicate5%indirect object3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 1,242 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςσύλόγοςa word, speech,
ἐν
καίand, even, also,ἀλλάbut, exceptἐγώ
Article the
αὐτόςὅςArticle the
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδείκνυμιI point out, shoπροσφέρωI bring to, offe
ἐπί
καίand, even, also,ἐγώεἰμίI am, exist
πᾶςall1242×
what comes after →
Article the
ἔθνοςa race, people, λαόςa people, the crπιστεύωI believe, have
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theχορτάζωI feed, satisfyδιά
σύ
εἰμίI am, existἐνκαίand, even, also,
γάρfor
Article theσύοὗτος
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theοὗτοςὅς

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceπᾶς · 1,242× in the New Testament
Acts Luke Matthew 1 Corinthians Romans Mark John Revelation Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians Colossians

27 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 10c. AD 40

καὶ γὰρ πατὴρ ἐκγόνων καὶ δημιουργὸς τῶν δημιουργηθέντων στοχάζεται τῆς διαμονῆς καὶ ὅσα μὲν ἐπιζήμια καὶ βλαβερὰ μηχανῇ πάσῃ διωθεῖται, τὰ δὲ ὅσα ὠφέλιμα καὶ λυσιτελῆ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον ἐκπορίζειν ἐπιποθεῖ·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ὡς οἱ Νώχου ἔγγονοι πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐπῴκησαν.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 2.4c. AD 100

πεφανέρωκεν γὰρ ἡμῖν διὰ πάντων τῶν προφητῶν, ὅτι οὕτε θυσιῶν οὔτε ὁλοκαυτωμάτων οὔτε προσφορῶν χρῄζει, λέγων ὅτε μέν:

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

γῆ Σενπελαίας, βορρᾶ γῆ Πανᾶτος ἀπηλιώτου ποταμός, λιβὸς Ἀραμείους, ἢ οἳ ἂν ὦσι γείτονες πάντων πάντοθεν. ἐπρίατο Πετεαρσεμθεὺς Πανοβχούνιος ὡς ἐτῶν μ χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δύο . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

ἐτῶν λ χαλκοῦ δραχμῶν τρισχιλίων . προπωληταὶ καὶ βεβαιωταὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην πάντων Νεχούτης καὶ ὁ σὺν αὐτῷ οἱ ἀποδόμενοι, ὃν ἐδέξατο Πακοῖβις ὁ πριάμενος. Ἑρμίας ὁ

BGU 3 1000Pathyris99 BC

χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς δισχιλίας καὶ διακοσίας . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην πάντων Πανοβχοῦνις ὁ ἀποδόμενος, ὃν ἐδέξατο Εὔνους ὁ πριάμενος. Ἑρμίας ὁ παρὰ Πανίσκου κεχρημάτικα.

who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
ἐνen with G1722 Preposition
2,743× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word is a preposition that means in, on, or among something. It's used in many places, like Matthew 7:3 and Luke 7:37, to describe a location or relationship. It can also mean by, with, or during.
Tyndale gloss
in/on/among
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The most frequent preposition in the New Testament, 2,752 occurrences. In, on, at, among, within — its force comes almost entirely from the word it is attached to. What it does here is put the events inside a community rather than at a distance: they were fulfilled among us.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐν,

prep, (the most freq. of all in NT), c. dat. (= Heb. בְּ, Lat. in, c. abl.).

Of place, c. dat. rei, pers., in, within, on, at, by, among: ἐν τ. πόλει, Lk 7:37; τ. οφθαλμῷ, Mt 7:3; τ. κοιλίᾳ, Mt 12:40; τ. ὄρει, II Pe 1:18; τ. θρόνῳ, Re 3:21; τ. δεξιᾷ τ. θεοῦ, Ro 8:34; ἐν ἡμῖν , Lk 1:1; of books, ἐν τ. βιβλίῳ, Ga 3:10; τ. νόμῳ, Mt 12:5, al.; ἐν τοῖς τ. Πατρός, in my Father's house (RV; cf. M, Pr., 103)…

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἐν Χριστῷ, ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ, ἐν κυρίῳ, (οἴ. Fritzsche, Com. on Rom. vol. ii. p. 82 544.; W. 389 (364); Weiss, Bibl. Theol. des N. T. §§ 84 b., 149 c.), ingrafied as it were in Christ, in fellowship and union with Christ, with the Lord: Ro. iii. 24; vi. 11, 23; viii. 39; 1Co.i.4; 2 Co. iii. 14; Gal. ii. 4; iii. 14, 26, 28; v. 6; Eph.i. 3 [Rec. om. ἐν]; ii. 6 sq. 10,13; 1 Tim.i.14; 2 Tim.i. 1,13; ii-1; 1 Pet. iii. 16; v.10; στήκειν ἐν κυρίῳ, Phil. iv. 1; iva εὑρεθῶ ἐν αὐτῷ, that I may be found (by God and Christ) most intimately united to him, Phil. iii. 9; εἶναι ἐν Χριστῷ "Inc. 1 Co. i. 30; οἱ ἐν Xp. "Ina. Ro. viii. 1; 1 Pet. v. 14; κοιμᾶσθαι ἐν Χριστῷ, θνήσκειν ἐν κυρίῳ, to fall asleep, to die, mindful of relationship to Christ and confiding in it [W. u.s.], 1 Co. xv. 18; Rey. xiv. 13. Since such union with Christ is the basis on which actions and virtues rest, the expression is…

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ἐν 210 contract—time of Augustus) ἱμάτια γυναικεῖα ἐν apyv(plov) δραχμαῖς ἑκατόν, P Oxy IV. 7247 (A.D. 155) ἐξ ὧν ἔσχες τὴν πρώτην δόσιν ἐν δραχμαῖς τεσσαράκοντα, 70. I. 565 (A.D. 211) δανειζομένη. .. ἀργύριον ἔντοκον ἐν δραχμαῖς ἑξακισχειλίαις, and P Grenf II. 778 (iii/iv a.p.) (=Selections, Pp. 120) το]ὺς μισθοὺς. . ὄντας ἐν δραχμαῖς τριακοσίαις τεσσαράκοντα. Similar are P Oxy IV. 7084 (a.p. 188) yopou . . ἐν (1vpod)(apraBats) ’B, BGU 1. 724 (a.p. 191) ἐξέκοψαν πλεῖστον τόπον ἐν ἀρούραις πέντε: with which may be compared Eph 2!° τὸν νόμον τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐν δόγμασιν, “consisting in.” In P Lond 9215 (ii/iii a.p.) (ΞΞ 111. P- 134) γεγονέναι ἐν ἀμπέλῳ = ‘to be planted with vines.” A predicative use of ἐν is seen in P Hib I. 421° (B.c. 262) δώσομεν Λευκίωι ἐν ὀφειλήματι, ‘asa debt,” P Petr I. 1215 (cf. II. p. 22) ὅσα δὲ ᾿Αξιοθέα προσενήνεγκται ἐμ φερνῆι, “ἐᾷς dowry,” and P Tebt I. 120 135…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἐν (en) — in/on/among.

ἐν,

poetry ἐνί, εἰν, εἰνί [Refs 8th c.BC+], forms used by Epic dialect and Lyric Poets as the metre requires, but only as falsa lectio in Trag., εἰν [Refs 5th c.BC+] ἰν [Refs]

__PREP. WITH DAT. AND ACC. Radical sense, in, into.

__A WITH DAT.

__A.I OF PLACE,

__A.I.1 in, νήσῳ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; with names of cities or islands, as ἐν Ἀθήνῃς, ἐν Τροίῃ, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; where ἐν is used, it = in the district of.., ὲν Ἐλευσῖνι [Refs] in my arms, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν αὑτῷ εἶναι to be in one's senses, be oneself, ἔτ᾽ ἐν σαυτῷ (variant -τοῦ) γενοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__A.I.1.b ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσιν in the fish-market, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν ἐθεώρουν ἄν in the two-obol seats, [Refs 4th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐν

en

a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or

state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or

constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519

and 1537); "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.:--about, after, against, +

almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+

all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to,

-wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly,

one, X quickly,

X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on),

through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while,

with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same

import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate

direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different)

preposition.

see GREEK for 1519

see GREEK for 1537

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἐν

Prep.

in, on, among

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐν en 2x

followed by the dat., in, Mt. 8:6; Mk. 12:26; Rev. 6:6,; upon, Lk. 8:32; among, Mt. 11:11; before, in the presence of, Mk. 8:38; in the sight, estimation of, 1 Cor. 14:11; before, judicially, 1 Cor. 6:2; in, of state, occupation, habit, Mt. 21:22; Lk. 7:25; Rom. 4:10; in the case of, Read the full entry →

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἐν

e)nprepe)ni/prep ei)nprep ei)ni/prep in, among. c. dat.

Lat. in.

PREP. WITH DAT.:

OF PLACE

in, ἐν νήσῳ, ἐν Τροίῃ, etc., Hom., etc.:—elliptic, ἐν Ἀλκινόοιο (sc. οἴκῳ) Od.; εἰν Ἀΐδαο Il.; ἐν παιδοτρίβου at the school of the training master, Ar.

in, upon, ἐν οὔρεσι Hom., etc.

in the number of, amongst, ἐν Δαναοῖς, etc., Hom.; and with Verbs of ruling, ἄρχειν, ἀνάσσειν ἐν πολλοῖς to be first or lord among many, i. e. over them, id. Hom.; cf. ὁ, τό B. III. 3.

in one's hands, within one's reach or power, Lat. penes, Hom., etc.; ἐν σοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν Soph.; ἐν τῷ θεῷ τὸ τέλος ἦν Dem.

in respect of, ἐν γήρᾳ in point of age, Soph.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Prep — Preposition
preposition — its sense depends on the case of the word it governs.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

PREP PREPosition

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
79%in
in79% · 2226×with5% · 135×among5% · 132×by4% · 112×on3% · 72×other renderings4% · 116×other renderings1% · 40×

2,833 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 36 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial82%predicate11%object3%subject3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 2,743 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
Article the
καίand, even, also,πᾶςall, the whole, σύ
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςσύεἰμίI am, exist
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the othe
εἰμίI am, exist
Article theκαίand, even, also,οὐNeg
ἐγώ
μετάπατήρfather, Father, εἰς
ἐνwith2743×
what comes after →
Article the
οὐρανόςthe sky, the heaἡμέραa dayκαρδίαthe heart, inner
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,Article theμένωI remain, abide
σύ
εἰμίI am, existμένωI remain, abideκαίand, even, also,
ὅς
καίand, even, also,εἰμίI am, existArticle the
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
Article theτόποςa placeσοφίαwisdom

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἐν · 2,743× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Acts John Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Revelation Mark Ephesians Colossians 1 John

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up <the> to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.
πλεονεξίᾳ.¶pleonexia greediness. G4124 Noun · dative · singular · feminine
10× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Ephesians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Greediness or avarice, which involves fraudulency and extortion, as mentioned in Luke 12:15 and Romans 1:29. It is a desire for advantage and covetousness.
Amplified meaning
greediness, covetousness
Tyndale gloss
greediness
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word πλεονεξία (i.e., *pleonexia*) refers to greediness or covetousness, characterized by a desire for more than one's due. It encompasses aggressive behavior aimed at gaining advantage, often linked to extortion or fraud. The New Testament uses it in several passages, including Luke 12:15 and Romans 1:29. Lexicons note its distinction from related terms like φιλαργυρία, which emphasizes a more passive form of greed.

Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament — πλεονεξία, φιλαργυρία from a scan

BretwrEEn these words the same distinction exists as between our ‘ covetousness’ and ‘avarice,’ as between the German ‘Habsucht’ and ‘Geiz.’ Πλεονεξία, primarily the having more, and then in a secondary and more usual G 82 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. ὃ xxiv. sense, the desire after the having more, is the more active sin, φιλαργυρία the more passive: the first, the ‘amor sceleratus habendi,’ seeks rather to grasp what it has not ; the second, to retain, and, by accumulating, to multiply that which it already has. The first, in its methods of acquiring, will be often bold and aggressive; even as it may, and often will, be as free in scattering and squandering, as it was eager and unscrupulous in getting: the πλεονέκτης will be often ‘ rapti largitor,’ as was Catiline ; characterizing whom Cicero demands (Pro Owl. 6): “ Quis in rapacitate avarior? quis in largitione effusior?’ even as…

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Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πλεονεξία, -ας, ἡ

(< πλεονέκτης),

[in LXX for בֶּצַע;]

the character and conduct of a πλεονέκτης

advantage.

desire for advantage, grasping, aggression, cupidity, covetousness: Lk 12:15, Ro 1:29, II Co 9:5, Eph 4:19 (v. ICC, in l) Eph 5:3, Col 3:5, I Th 2:5, II Pe 2:3 2:14; pl. (v. Bl., § 32, 6), Mk 7:22.†

SYN.: φιλαργυρία, avarice (v. Tr., Syn., § xxiv).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

πλεονεξία, -as, 9, (πλεονέκτης, 4. V-), greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice: Lk. xii. 15; Ro.i. 29; Eph. iv. 19; v. 3; Col. iii. 5; 1 Th. ii. 5; 2 Pet. ii. 3, [on the om. of the art. in the last two pass. cf. W. 120 (114) ], 14; ὡς (Rec. ὥσπερ] πλεονεξίαν, [as a matter of covetousness], i.e. a gift which betrays the giver’s covetousness, 2 Co. ix. 5 [here R.V. txt. extortion]; plur. various modes in which covetousness shows itself, covetings [cf. W. § 27, 3; B. 77 (67)], Mk. vii. 29. (In the same and various other senses by pref. writ. fr. Hdt. and Thuc. down.) [ Trench, N. T. Syn. § xxiv., and (in partial correction) Bp. Lghtft. Com. on Col. iii. 5.]

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

πλεονεξία, “ὁ σοναίοιιϑη 655, in P Par 6358 (B.c. 164) (= P Petr III. p- 24) μηδεμιᾶς ἐν τούτοις μήτε φιλοτιμίας, μήτε πλεονεξίας γενηθείσης keeps company with φιλοτιμία, which here represents a ‘‘ grasping ambition’’: cf. PSI V. 446° (A.p. 133-7) τὸ δὲ στρατ[ι]ωτικὸν ἐπὶ πλεονεξίᾳ Kal ἀδικίᾳ λαμβά[ν]εσθαι συνβέβηκε. In Musonius p. 72° (ed. Hense) it is linked with βία---ἅπερ ἀπὸ Blas kal πλεονεξίας πέφυκε ζῆν, and in 26. p. 9010 it accompanies ἡδονή---ὁ θεὸς... ἀήττητος μὲν ἡδονῆς, ἀήττητος δὲ πλεονεξίας, a remarkable parallel to the NT association with sins of the flesh, based on a saying of Jesus (Mk 733) and repeated by at least three different NT writers (1 Cor 519, Heb 134, 2 Pet 214). Bunyan’s instinct rightly made Pickthank name together among Beelzebub’s friends ‘‘my old Lord Lechery, Sir Having Greedy, with all the rest of our nobility.”” See also Exp T xxxvi. p. 478 f. That…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πλεονεξία (pleonexia) — greediness.

πλεονεξία,

Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, greediness, assumption, arrogance, τῶν Σπαρτιητέων ἡ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. συγγενική wrong done to one's kin, [Refs 4th c.AD+]

2. assumption, αἱ ἐν τῷ πυνθάνεσθαι π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. advantage, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ π. αἱ ἴδιαι, αἱ δημόσιαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ πλεονεξίᾳ with a view to one's own advantage, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετὰ πλεονεξίας τινὸς ἀγωνίζεσθαι πρὸς [τὰ θηρία] [Refs]excellences, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

II.2. a larger share of a thing, τῶν πολιτικῶν δικαίων [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II.3. gain derived from a thing, τὴν ἐπὶ τῶν ἰδίων δικῶν πλεονεξίαν [Refs 4th c.BC+]undue gains, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πλεονεξία

pleonexia

from 4123; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency,

extortion:--covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.

see GREEK for 4123

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πλεονεξία, ας, ἡ

n.f.

covetousness, avarice

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πλεονεξία pleonexia 10x

some advantage which one possesses over another; an inordinate desire of riches, covetousness, Lk. 12:15; grasping, overreaching, extortion, Rom. 1:29; 1 Thess. 2:5; a gift exacted by importunity and conferred with grudging, a hard-wrung gift, 2 Cor. 9:5; a scheme of extortion, Mk. 7:22

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πλεονεξία πλεονεξία, ἡ, the character and conduct of a πλεονέκτης, greediness, grasping, assumption, arrogance, Hdt., Thuc., etc.

gain, advantage, Xen., etc.; ἐπὶ πλεονεξίᾳ with a view to one's own advantage, Thuc., Xen.

c. gen. pers. advantage over, Xen.

c. gen. rei, a larger share of a thing, Arist.; gain made from a thing, Dem.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-DSF — Noun · dative · singular · feminine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-DSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Dative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
60%covetousness
covetousness60% · 6×greediness10% · 1×greed10% · 1×craving10% · 1×covetous desires10% · 1×

10 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 5 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial60%subject10%object10%predicate10%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 10 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
ἐν
πᾶςall, the whole, καίand, even, also,
μοιχείαadultery
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
ἀπό
πονηρίαwickedness, iniquiti
ἀδικίαunrighteousness
ὡςas, like as, how, wh
μήNeg
πλεονεξίαgreediness.10×
what comes after →
πονηρίαwickedness, iniquiti
δόλοςdeceit, guile, t
ὅτιthat, since, because
οὐNeg
κακίαevil, wickedness, ma
μεστόςfull
μηδέNeg
ὀνομάζωI give a name to
ὅστις
εἰμίI am, exist

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceπλεονεξία · 10× in the New Testament
2 Peter Ephesians 1 Thessalonians 2 Corinthians Colossians Luke Mark Romans
Across the New Testament8 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Epistle of Barnabas Clement of Rome Polycarp
Philo of AlexandriaWho is the Heir of Divine Things 105c. AD 40

μυρίοι γὰρ ἔξαρνοι παρακαταθηκῶν ἐγένοντο ἱερῶν, τοῖς ἀλλοτρίοις ὡς ἰδίοις ὑπ’ ἀμέτρου τῆς πλεονεξίας καταχρησάμενοι.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 3.67c. AD 75–95

καὶ γὰρ τοῖς ἡττωμένοις κοῦφον ἐδόκει τὸ λείπεσθαι κατὰ δικαιοσύνην οὐ κατὰ πλεονεξίαν αὐτὸ πάσχειν νομίζουσι·

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 20.1c. AD 100

ὁδὸς γάρ ἐστιν θανάτου αἰωνίου μετὰ τιμωρίας, ἐν ᾖ ἐστιν τὰ ἀπολλύντα τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῶν: εἰδωλολατρεία, θρασύτης, ὕψος δυνάμεως, ὑπόκρισις, διπλοκαρδία, μοιχεία, φόνος, ἁρπαγή, ὑπερηφανία, παράβασις, δόλος, κακία, αὐθάδεια, φαρμακεία, μαγεία,…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
4th c. AD 3rd c. AD 2nd c. AD 2nd c. BC 1st c. AD
PSI 5 446AD 133–AD 137

ἐξ οὗ τοῖς μὲν ἰδιώταις ὕβρεις τε καὶ ἐπηρείας γείνεσθαι, τὸ δὲ στρατιωτικὸν ἐπὶ πλεονεξίᾳ καὶ ἀδικίᾳ διαβάλλεσθαι συνβέβηκε. παρανγέλλω δὴ τοῖς στρατηγοῖς καὶ βασιλικοῖς ἁπαξαπλῶς μηδενὶ παρέχειν ἄνευ

PSI 9 1052Ankyron (Herakleopolites)AD 206–AD 211

Οὐικτωρίνῳ ὑπάτοις. Σουβατιανῷ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου … … υ. Αἴλιος Σαραπάμμων οὐετρανὸς ἐκ πλεονεξίας … … … σης τῇ στρατείᾳ διαφέρουσα σχολάζειν … … οτις ὡς δὲ ἔχει

διʼ ἀσχολίαν ἀπελθοῦσα πέπρακεν χωρὶς ἐμοῦ … παντοδαπήν. τοσαύτης οὖν μοι βίας καὶ πλεονεξίας καὶ ἁρπαγῆς γενομένης ἐπιστέλλω … τὸ βιβλίδιον ἀξιῶν … σε συντάξαι … ασασαν

Sources on this page. Lexicons and dictionaries imported from the CrossWire SWORD modules — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, Dodson, the Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones, Robinson and Packard, Webster and Cawdrey. Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Harper, 1889 — Grimm’s Wilke’s Clavis Novi Testamenti, translated, revised and enlarged by Joseph Henry Thayer) is public domain and is set here from the Internet Archive page scan greekenglishlex00grim; it is uncorrected OCR, marked as such on the entry itself, and the Strong’s numbers — which Thayer’s own edition does not carry — were matched by lemma against the other modules on this page. Trench’s Synonyms of the New Testament (Macmillan, 1880) and Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (Hodder & Stoughton, 1930, which entered the United States public domain on 1 January 2026) are set from Internet Archive page scans synonymsofnewtes00treniala and vocabularyofgree00mouluoft, and are likewise uncorrected OCR matched to Strong’s numbers by lemma. Trench treats a group of words at once, so the same essay stands on the page of each word it compares. The Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary is © 1993 and is used here by permission for non-commercial use, www.teknia.com/greek-dictionary. The full Liddell-Scott-Jones and the Hebrew word data (TAHOT) come from STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs is the OpenScriptures digitisation, public domain. Syntax analysis is the Nestle 1904 Lowfat treebank (biblicalhumanities.org); the concordance and morphology are built from the tagged Nestle 1904 text. Septuagint occurrences use the Open Scriptures Septuagint lemma index, derived from CCAT (University of Pennsylvania) and the Rahlfs 1935 dataset by Eliran Wong, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — used here on a non-commercial ministry site. Greek of Josephus and Barnabas from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0. Commentaries and the Ante-Nicene Fathers are public-domain texts hosted on this site. Everyday Greek from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, CC BY 3.0, with dates and provenance from the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis. Philo and the Apostolic Fathers from Open Greek and Latin (First1KGreek), CC BY-SA 4.0. The apparatus and the fifth Greek column are the SBL Greek New Testament, © 2010 SBL and Logos Bible Software, CC BY 4.0. The Latin is the Clementine Vulgate (public domain); the Syriac New Testament is the ETCBC edition (MIT licence). The Hebrew behind the Greek is computed here from the Septuagint index and TAHOT, not taken from any aligned edition. The translation spread and the per-word edition marks come from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT (STEPBible, CC BY 4.0); clause roles from the Nestle 1904 Lowfat treebank (CC BY-SA 4.0); place identifications and their confidence from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (CC BY 4.0), with map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Gospel parallels are computed here from shared uncommon vocabulary, not taken from any printed harmony. Cross references are the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and the subject headings are Nave’s Topical Bible, both public domain. Works under Creative Commons licences are used unchanged apart from markup removal.

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