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N1904συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

BSAThey gathered togethersunagō [gathered together, assembled] thereforeoun andkai filledgemizō twelvedōdeka [a dozen] hand-basketskophinos of fragmentsklasma [fragments, broken bits] fromek theho fivepente [the number of humility] loavesartos [bread, food] <the>ho barleykrithinos [thin, coarse] whichhos, hē exceededperisseuō [remaining, exceeding] to thoseho having eaten.bibrōskō [consumed, partaken]

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John 6:13quick helps
In a sentenceThe disciples collected the leftovers from the miraculous feeding, filling twelve baskets with the fragments.
Who is speakingJesus, instructing His disciples after feeding the crowd.
Where we areThis event occurs right after the miracle of feeding the five thousand.
The hard wordσυνήγαγον
Take awayNothing should be wasted; even the remnants are gathered.
4 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Trapp, Cambridge & more — read them › clause subjectδώδεκα verbσυνάγω The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
How rare are these words?in the New Testament

1 of 17 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 — John 6:13

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Context — The Miracle of Feeding the Five Thousandgenerated

12And when everyone was full, He said to His disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”
13So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
14When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
15Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

John 6:13 describes how the disciples gathered the leftover pieces of bread after Jesus fed the five thousand. This action emphasizes the importance of stewardship and not wasting resources. The miracle serves as a sign of Jesus' divine provision, paralleling the Old Testament accounts of God providing for His people, such as in Exodus 16:18.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
11 Kings 7:15–16He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
22 Kings 4:2–7“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
32 Chronicles 25:9Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the army of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”
4Proverbs 11:24–25One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
52 Corinthians 9:8–9And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 6 references, hung on the phrase they belong to


The Key Word συνήγαγον, sunagōgenerated

The verb συνάγω (transliterated as sunagō) means 'to gather together' or 'to assemble.' It is a second aorist active indicative verb, indicating a completed action performed by the disciples.

This term is often used in the New Testament to describe various gatherings, whether of people or items. In this context, it highlights the disciples' obedience to Jesus' command to collect the leftover pieces after the miraculous meal.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

The translations generally agree on the meaning of the verse, with slight variations in wording. The Berean Standard Bible uses 'collected' and 'filled,' which is mirrored in the KJV and ASV.

However, differences arise in the rendering of κλασμάτων. The KJV and DRA use 'fragments,' while the BBE opts for 'broken bits.'


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb in the verse is συνήγαγον, they gathered together, which governs the entire sentence. It is followed by a compound object, δώδεκα κοφίνους, twelve baskets, and a prepositional phrase indicating what was gathered.

The structure includes additional clauses that provide detail about the contents of the baskets, specifically the fragments of the five barley loaves that were left over.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

The term συνάγω has a background in the Septuagint, where it translates the Hebrew words for gathering, such as אָסַף (asaf) and קָבַץ (qavatz). These words convey similar meanings of collecting or assembling.

In the context of the Old Testament, gathering often relates to the collection of resources or people, emphasizing God's provision.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

John 6:13 tells us that after feeding the five thousand, the disciples collected the leftover pieces of bread. They filled twelve baskets with these fragments, showing the importance of not wasting what was provided.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What does it mean that they filled twelve baskets?

The twelve baskets symbolize abundance and completeness, reflecting the miraculous provision of Jesus.

Why did Jesus instruct His disciples to gather the leftovers?

Jesus wanted to teach the disciples about stewardship and the importance of not wasting resources, even after a miraculous event.

What do the fragments signify?

The fragments signify God's provision and abundance, demonstrating that He provides more than enough for His people.

How does this miracle connect to Old Testament themes?

This miracle connects to Old Testament themes of God's provision, similar to how He provided manna in the wilderness.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. What lessons can I learn about stewardship from the gathering of leftovers?
  2. How can I apply the principle of not wasting resources in my own life?
  3. In what ways has God provided abundantly for me, and how can I share that with others?
  4. How does this miracle encourage my faith in God's ability to provide?

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

Several early church Fathers comment on this miracle, emphasizing its significance and the lessons it imparts about abundance and divine provision.

TertullianAGAINST MARCION 4.21 c. 155–220
Such was the greatness of his miracle that he willed the slender supply of food not only to be enough but even to prove superabundant. Here he followed ancient precedent.
Early Church Fathers on John 6 →
Origen of AlexandriaCOMMENTARY ON Matthew 11.2 c. 185–253
In the Psalms it is written of Joseph, “His hands had served in baskets.” And the disciples of Jesus, the Twelve, I believe, gathered up twelve baskets of the remainder of the broken bread. These baskets were not half filled but full.
Early Church Fathers on John 6 →
John ChrysostomHomily on the Gospel of John 42 c. 347–407
And that these things were done for their instruction is plain from what is said afterwards, when He reminded them, saying,
Early Church Fathers on John 6 →

Commentators on this verse — 4 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on John 6:13 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

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

Therefore they gathered [them] together,.... The several broken bits of bread, which lay about upon the grass, which the people had left, after they had been sufficiently refreshed: and filled twelve

Read John Gill on John 6 →
Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 6:30-56.

Read Robert Jamieson on John 6 →
John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Ver. 13. Filled twelve baskets] See 1 Kings 17:15-16 Matthew 14:20,

Read John Trapp on John 6 →
CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

13. baskets] All four accounts have the same word for basket, cophinus, i.e. the wallet which every Jew carried when on a journey, to keep himself independent of Gentile food, which would be unclean. Comp. Juvenal iii. 14. Each of the Twelve gathered into his own wallet, and filled it full. Moreover in referring to the miracle the word cophinus is used (Matthew 16:9). In the feeding of the 4000 (Matthew 15:37; Mark 8:8), and in referring to it (Matthew 16:10), a different word for basket, spuris, is used. Such accuracy is evidence of truth. See note on Mark 8:8. S. Mark tells us that fragments of fish were gathered also. The remnants far exceed in quantity the original store.The expedients…

Read Cambridge on John 6 →

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

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Modern formal

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

WEBWorld English Bible2000

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

NETBNew English Translation2006

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten.

RVARevised Version, American1894

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

Therefore they gathered them , and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Then they gathered it together, and filled twelue baskets with the broken meat of the fiue barly loaues, which remained vnto them that had eaten.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

They gathered [them] therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

They gathered up therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

So they collected and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves the people had eaten.

BBEBible in Basic English1949

So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

Word by word, the decisions they made

συνήγαγονsunagō They gathered together G4863 2 different renderings
gatheredASV DBY DRA GNV KJV NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB
they gathered togetherLSV YLT
κλασμάτωνklasma of fragments G2801 3 different renderings
fragmentsDRA KJV NWB
of fragmentsDBY
broken bitsBBE

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.

clauseοὖνthereforeclauseclauseverbσυνήγαγονThey gathered togetherκαὶandclauseverbἐγέμισανfillednoun phrase · objectδώδεκαtwelveκοφίνουςhand-basketsadverbialκλασμάτωνof fragmentsprepositional phrase · adverbialἐκfromnoun phrasenoun phraseτῶνthenoun phraseπέντεfiveἄρτωνloavesnoun phraseτῶν-κριθίνωνbarleyclausesubjectwhichverbἐπερίσσευσανwere over and abovenoun phrase · adverbialτοῖςto thoseclauseverbβεβρωκόσινhaving eaten

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

Collegerunt ergo, et impleverunt duodecim cophinos fragmentorum ex quinque panibus hordeaceis, quæ superfuerunt his qui manducaverant.

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

ܘܟܢܫܘ ܘܡܠܘ ܬܪܥܣܪ ܩܘܦܝܢܝܢ ܩܨܝܐ ܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܝܬܪܘ ܠܗܢܘܢ ܕܐܟܠܘ ܡܢ ܚܡܫܐ ܠܚܡܝܢ ܕܣܥܪܐ

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

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

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

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν.¶

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

Every witness on this verse they differ
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

WordEditions carrying itMissing from
ἐπερίσσευσαν exceededNA28, NA27, Tyn, SBL, WH, TregTR, Byz

Apparatus — SBL Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0


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.

John 6:13συνάγωThey gatherThey gathered tσυνάγωοὖνthereforethereforeοὖνκαίandandκαίγεμίζωfilledfilledγεμίζωδώδεκαtwelvetwelveδώδεκακόφινοςhand-baskethand-basketsκόφινοςκλάσμαof fragmentof fragmentsκλάσμαἐκfromfromἐκthetheπέντεfivefiveπέντεἄρτοςloavesloavesἄρτος<the><the>κρίθινοςbarleybarleyκρίθινοςὅςwhichwhichὅςπερισσεύωexceededexceededπερισσεύωto thoseto thoseβιβρώσκωhaving eatehaving eaten.βιβρώσκωκλάωv. I breakv. I breakκλάωσύνPrep. withPrep. withσύνγέμωv. I am fuv. I am full ofγέμωδύοAdj. & IndAdj. & Indec.nuδύοαἴρωv. I raisev. I raise, lifαἴρωκριθήn.f. barlen.f. barleyκριθήπερισσόςAdj & Adv.Adj & Adv. abunπερισσόςArticle thArticle theοὗAdv where,Adv where, whitοὗβόσκωv. I feedv. I feedβόσκωκλάσμαn.n. a fran.n. a fragmentκλάσμαἅλωνn.f. a thrn.f. a threshinἅλωνδιασκορπίζωv. I scattv. I scatter, wδιασκορπίζωἄραDisj.prt. Disj.prt. then,ἄραμένDisj.prt. Disj.prt. trulyμένὑδρίαn.f. a watn.f. a water poὑδρίαπλοῖονn.n. a shin.n. a ship, veπλοῖονφυλήn.f. a trin.f. a tribe, rφυλή
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 John 6:13

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.

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
συνήγαγονsunagō They gathered together G4863 Verb · second aorist · active · indicative · third person · plural
59× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to gather or bring people together, as seen in Matthew 2:4 and John 11:47. It can also mean to collect or convene things, like in Luke 12:18. The Bible uses this word to describe various types of gatherings and assemblies.
Amplified meaning
gathered together, assembled
Tyndale gloss
to assemble
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word συνάγω (transliterated as sunagō) means to gather or bring together. It encompasses a range of meanings, including assembling people, collecting items, or receiving guests hospitably. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts related to gatherings, such as assemblies and hospitality. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meanings.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

συν-άγω

[in LXX chiefly forאסף, also forקבץ, etc. (cf. Kennedy, Sources, 128) ;]

to gather or bring together: of things, Jo 6:12, 13; seq. εἰς, Mt 3:12, al.; ἐκεῖ, Lk 12:18; ποῦ, Lk 12:17; συναγαγὼν πάντα (sc. εἰς ἀργύριον; v. Field, Notes, 68, MM, xxiv), having sold off all: Lk 15:13; of persons, Jo 11:52; esp. of assemblies, Mt 2:4, Jo 11:47, Ac 14:27, al. Pass., to be gathered or come together: Mt 22:41, Mk 2:2, Read the full entry →

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

συν-άγω ; fut. συνάξω ; 2 aor. συνήγαγον ; Pass., pres. συνάγομαι; pf. ptep. συνηγμένος ; 1 aor. συνήχθην; 1 fut. συναχθήσομαι; fr. Hom. down; Sept. chiefly for Ox, ΥΞΡ and 73: a. to gather together, to gather: with an ace. of the thing, Lk. xv. 13; Jn. vi. 12sq.; xv. 6; har-. vests, ὅθεν, Mt. xxv. 24, 26; with εἴς τι added, Mt. iii. 12; vi. 26; xiii. 30; Lk. iii. 17; ποῦ, Lk. xii. 17; ἐκεῖ, Lk. xii. 18; συνάγειν καρπὸν eis ζωὴν αἰώνιον (see καρπός, 2 d.), Jn. iv. 36; συνάγω pera twos, Mt. xii. 30; Lk. xi. 23; to draw together, collect: fishes, —of a net in which they are caught, Mt. xiii. 47. b. to bring together, assemble, collect: αἰχμαλωσίαν (1. 6. αἰχμαλώτους), Rev. xiii. 10 RG; eis αἰχμαλωσίαν, i. 6. τινάς, ot ὦσιν αἰχμάλωτοι, Rev. xiii. 10 Led. min.; to join together, join in one (those previously separated): τὰ τέκνα τοῦ θεοῦ τὰ διεσκορπισμένα εἰς ἕν, Jn. xi. 52, (συ"ἀξειν εἰς…

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

συνάγω, “bring or gather together.” of the total amount, the full sum, received by sale or by purchase, e.g. P Oxy 11. 285'® (c. A.D. 50) διέσισέν pe ἄλλας δραχμὰς τέσσαρες μηνῶν ἕξ, κατὰ μῆνα δραχμὰς δύο, al συναγόμεναι (δραχμαὶ) KS, ‘he also extorted from me four more drachmae, and two drachmae each month during six months .. .: total, 24 drachmae”’ (Edd.), P Tebt 11. 296% (a.p. 123) τὸ συναγ[όμενον τῆς πρ[ο]σθήκης ἀνελήφθη, ‘the total amount of the increase was received,” or P Oxy I. 55! (A.D. 283) where two joiners ask for payment of 4000 drachmae as the totalamount of wages due to them in connexion with the construction The verb is frequently used of a street—Tad συναγόμενα τῶν μισθῶν τοῦ ὅλου ἔργου. It would seem, therefore, that by συναγαγὼν πάντα in Lk 158 we must understand with Field (/Vo/es, p. 68) that the prodigal converted his goods into money, sold all…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

συνάγω (sunagō) — to assemble.

συνάγω [ᾰ],

imperfect συνῆγον, Doric dialect -ᾶγον[Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect σύνᾰγον [Refs 8th c.BC+]future συνάξω: aorist 1 συνῆξα, Doric dialect -ᾶξα[Refs 2nd c.BC+]; infinitive συνάξαι variant in [NT]; participle συνάξας falsa lectio for{συννάξας} in [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist is συνήγαγον: Attic dialect perfect συνῆχα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect συναγάγοχα [Refs]perfect passive συνῆγμαι, Doric dialect -ᾶγμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+].--Old Attic dialect ξυνάγω, which [Refs 8th c.BC+] also uses for the sake of meter:—bring together, gather together:

I. of persons, animals, etc., ἡ δὲ ξυνάγουσα γεραιὰς νηόν.. to the temple, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποίμνας Ὀλύμπου σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἕλληνας εἰς ἓν καὶ Φρύγας σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἐς…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

συνάγω

sunago

from 4862 and 71; to lead together, i.e. collect or convene;

specially, to entertain (hospitably):--+ accompany, assemble (selves,

together), bestow, come together, gather (selves together, up,

together), lead into, resort, take in.

see GREEK for 4862

see GREEK for 71

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

συνάγω

v.

I gather together

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

συνάγω synagō 59x

to bring together, collect, gather, as grain, fruits, etc., Mt. 3:12 6:26; 13:30, 47; to collect an assembly; pass. to convene, come together, meet, Mt. 2:4; 13:2; 18:20; 22:10; in NT to receive with kindness and hospitality, to entertain, Mt. 25:35, 38, 43

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

συνάγω imperf. -ῆγον doric -ᾶγον epic -α^γον fut. συνάξω aor2 συνήγαγον perf. συνῆχα and συναγήοχα Pass. συνῆγμαι to bring together, gather together, collect, convene, Hom., Hdt., attic

in hostile sense, to join battle, begin the battle-strife, Il.:—also like συμβάλλω, to match two warriors one against the other, Aesch.:—hence intr., ς. εἰς μέσσον to engage in fight, Theocr.

to bring together, join in one, unite, Hhymn. ( i.e., h. Merc.), Aesch.;— ς. γάμους to contract a marriage, Xen.

to receive into one's house, NTest.

to gather together stores, crops, etc., Xen., etc.

to draw together, so as to make the extremities meet, Hdt., Thuc.: also to draw together, narrow, contract, Hdt.

to contract the brows, Ar.; ς. τὰ ὦτα to prick the ears, of dogs, Xen.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-2AAI-3P — Verb · second aorist · active · indicative · third person · plural
second aorist active indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-2AAI-3P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: second Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: third Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
21%gathered together
gathered together21% · 13×gathered8% · 5×assembled8% · 5×having gathered together7% · 4×gathering5% · 3×having been gathered together3% · 2×gather together3% · 2×do gather together3% · 2×other renderings41% · 25×

61 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 31 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
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 59 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
αὐτόςσπείρωI sow, spread, sεἰμίI am, exist
μήNeg
Article the
ἡμέραa day
πολύςmuch, many, ofteγίνομαιI come into bein
αὐτός
μαθητήςa learner, disciστράτευμαan army
εἰμίI am, exist
ὅςοὗwhere, whither,
συνάγωThey gathered together59×
what comes after →
Article the
σῖτοςwheat, grainἀρχιερεύςhigh priest, chiἀετόςan eagle, bird o
εἰς
Article theἀποθήκηa repository, grεἷςone
αὐτός
εἰςκαίand, even, also,Article the
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
Article theὅς
μετά
ἐγώArticle the

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

Concordanceσυνάγω · 59× in the New Testament
Matthew Acts John Luke Mark Revelation 1 Corinthians
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 180 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 Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch The Didache
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 152c. AD 40

ἔρως δ’ ἐπιγενόμενος καθάπερ ἑνὸς ζῴου διττὰ τμήματα διεστηκότα συναγαγὼν εἰς ταὐτὸν ἁρμόττεται, πόθον ἐνιδρυσάμενος ἑκατέρῳ τῆς πρὸς θάτερον κοινωνίας εἰς τὴν τοῦ ὁμοίου γένεσιν·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.107c. AD 75–95

καὶ γὰρ καὶ Μανέθων ὁ τὴν Αἰγυπτίων ποιησάμενος ἀναγραφὴν καὶ Βηρωσὸς ὁ τὰ Χαλδαϊκὰ συναγαγὼν καὶ Μῶχός τε καὶ Ἑστιαῖος καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ὁ Αἰγύπτιος Ἱερώνυμος οἱ τὰ Φοινικικὰ συγγραψάμενοι συμφωνοῦσι τοῖς ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ λεγομένοις,

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 19.12c. AD 100

οὐ ποιήσεις σχίσμα, εἰρηνεύσεις δὲ μαχομένους συναγαγών.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 2nd c. BC 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 4th c. AD
Chrest.Wilck. 341Apollonopolites HeptakomiasAD 113–AD 120

ἀναγραφομένων περὶ τὴν ἐμὴν κωμογραμματείαν βρεχέντων πεδίων καὶ τῶν δυναμένων αὐλακισθῆναι προσφωνῶ ὡς ὑπόκειται. συνάγονται τῶν ἐντὸς περιχώματος Ναβοὼι ἀναγραφομένων περὶ τὴν ἐμὴν κωμογραμματείαν ἄρουραι χξη 𐅵 ιϛ λβ

P.Stras. 9 889Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)AD 101–AD 150

κώμῃ παρὰ … Πανεφρέμμιος … ωνίωι καὶ Σαραπίωνι πρὸς δραχμὰς … τακόσιας κάτω … συνηγμένων … ὑπογεγραμμένο … υιων Χαιρήμονος. ὁμολογῶ ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως … καθʼ ὁμολογίαν

P.Oxy. 49 3473OxyrhynchosAD 161–AD 169

κώμης γεωργῶν καὶ κληρούχων βουλομένων διδόναι κατʼ εὐσέβειαν ἀπὸ τῶν παλαιῶν χρόνων ἐξ οὗ συνάγονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι … καὶ ἀργυρίου δραχμαὶ μη, ἀνθʼ ὧν ἀναλώματος· εἰς ἐπιστατικὸν ἱερ

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
οὖνoun therefore G3767 Conjunction
496× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means therefore or then, showing a consequence. It appears in Matthew 3:10 and Romans 5:9 to connect ideas and events.
Tyndale gloss
therefore/then
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word οὖν (oun) is a particle used to express consequence, sequence, or to resume a narrative. It translates to 'therefore,' 'then,' or 'accordingly,' and appears frequently in the New Testament, such as in Matthew 3:10 and Romans 5:9. It can also serve in exhortations and questions, indicating what follows logically from previous statements.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

οὖν,

particle expressing consequence or simple sequence (never standing first in a sentence),

wherefore, therefore, then: Mt 3:10, Lk 3:9, Jo 8:38, Ac 1:21, Ro 5:9, al.; in exhortations, Mt 3:8, Lk 11:35, Ac 3:19, Ro 6:12, al.; in questions, Mt 13:28, Mk 15:12, Jo 8:[5], Ro 6:1, al.; continuing a…

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

οὖν ἃ conj. indicating that something follows from another necessarily; [al. regard the primary force of the particle as confirmatory or continuative, rather than illative; cf. Passow, or L.andS.s. v.; Kiihner § 508, 1 ii. p- 707 sqq.; Biiumlein p. 173 sqq.; Kriiger § 69, 52; Donaldson p. 571; Rost in a program “ Ueber Ableitung ” u.s.w. p.2; Klotz p. 717; Hartung ii. 4]. Hence it is used in drawing a conclusion and in connecting sentences together logically, then, therefore, accordingly, consequently, these things being so, [ (Klotz, Rost, al., have wished to derive the word fr. the neut. ptep. ὄν (cf. ὄντως) ; but see Baumlein or Kiihner u.s.); ef. W. § 53, 8]: Mt. iii. 10; x. 32 (since persecutions are not to be dreaded, and consequently furnish no excuse for denying me [οἵ. W. 455 (424)]); Mt. xviii. 4; Lk. iii.9; xvi. 27; In. viii. 38 (καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν, and ye accordingly, i. e.…

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

οὖν. This common particle, which occurs in the NT nearly 500 times, is used in our sources in a variety of connexions, the exact shade of meaning being determined by the context. (1) For the causal meaning ‘‘therefore” we may cite BGU II. 423" (ii/aA.p.) (= Sevectzons, p. 91) Kal καλῶς pol ἐστιν. ἐρωτῶ ce οὖν, κύριέ pou πατήρ, γράψον μοι ἐπιστόλιον πρῶτον μὲν περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου... , “it is well with me. I beg you, therefore, my lord father, write me a letter, first regarding your health ... ,” and P Oxy XIV. 16651 (iii/A.D.), where a son in urgent need of oil writes to his father—dvayxalws οὖν, ἐὰν ἔτι παρὰ σεαυτῷ χρ[ἴ]ον ἔχῃς, δήλωσον ἢ τῷ vie σου ἢ ᾧ ἐὰν σὺ βούλῃ τούτους μοι ἐν τάχει παρα[σ]χεῖν, ‘perforce, therefore, if you have still with you any unguent, instruct your son or any one else you wish to supply me with them speedily ” (Edd.). (2) Οὖν is very common in a looser…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

οὖν (oun) — therefore/then.

οὖν,

Ionic dialect and Doric dialect ὦν (the latter in [Refs 8th c.BC+], adverb certainly, in fact, confirming something, frequently in contrast with something which is not confirmed, in [Refs 8th c.BC+] only in combination with γε (see. γοῦν), γάρ, οὔτε or μήτε, ὡς, ἐπεί, μέν, etc.:

1. really, φημὶ γὰρ οὖν κατανεῦσαι.. Κρονίωνα for I declare that Zeus did really promise.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόφρα γὰρ οὖν ἑπόμεσθα.., ὄφρ᾽ for we followed them up to the very point, where.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ᾽ ὦν but they really were spoken, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Θηβαῖοι μὲν ταῦτα λέγουσι.., Πλαταιῆς δ᾽ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦσι.., ἐκ δ᾽ οὖν τῆς γῆς ἀνεχώρησαν at all events they did return, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so δ᾽ οὖν after a parenthesis; εἰ δή τις ὑμῶν οὕτως ἔχει,—οὐκ ἀξιῶ μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε,—εἰ…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

οὖν

oun

apparently a primary word; (adverbially) certainly, or

(conjunctionally) accordingly:--and (so, truly), but, now (then), so

(likewise then), then, therefore, verily, wherefore.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

οὖν

Cj.

therefore, then

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

οὖν oun 499x

then, now then, Mt. 13:18; Jn. 19:29; then, thereupon, Lk. 15:28; Jn. 6:14; therefore, consequently, Mt. 5:48: Mk. 10:9; it also serves to mark the resumption of discourse after an interruption by a parenthesis, 1 Cor. 8:4. Sometimes it is not translated.

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

οὖν really, at all events, used like γοῦν to dismiss a perplexing subject, οὔτ᾽ οὖν ἀγγελίῃς ἔτι πείθομαι, οὔτε θεοπροπίης ἐμπάζομαι Od.; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ᾽ ὦν but they really were spoken, Hdt.; εἴτ᾽ οὖν, εἴτε μὴ γενήσεται whether it shall be really so, or no, Eur.; εἴτ᾽ οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτ᾽ οὖν ψεῦδος Plat.; εἰ δ᾽ ἔστιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔστι, θεός if he is, as he surely is, a god, id. Plat.

added to indef. Pronouns and Advs., like Lat. cunque, ὅστις whoever, ὁστισοῦν whosoever; ὅπως how, ὁπωσοῦν howsoever; ἄλλος ὁστισοὖν another, be he who he may; so, ὁποιοσοῦν, ὁποσοσοῦν, ὁπωσοῦν, ὁποθενοῦν…

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
79%therefore
therefore79% · 428×then19% · 104×other renderings1% · 7×

539 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

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 496 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
λέγωI say, speak
διακονέωI wait at table,ἔχωI have, hold, poΣατανᾶςan adversary, Sa
μένDisj
Article theεἰCondπολύςmuch, many, ofte
τίςIrg
αὐτόςλέγωI say, speakδιά
Article the
ἸακώβPropὕδωρwater
σύ
καίand, even, also,δεῖit is necessary,ἐρωτάωI ask, question,
οὖνtherefore496×
what comes after →
Article the
ἸησοῦςJesusἸουδαῖοςJewishμαθητήςa learner, disci
αὐτός
Article theτίςIrgἸησοῦςJesus
καίand, even, also, nam
νίπτωI washἕτεροςanother, differeὁράωI see, look upon
εἰμίI am, exist
Article theσύοὗτος
σύ
πονηρόςevil, bad, wickeτέλειοςperfect, full-grἨλίαςElijah

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

Concordanceοὖν · 496× in the New Testament
John Acts Matthew Romans Luke 1 Corinthians Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 Peter Galatians Philippians

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament23 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 110 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 Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 4c. AD 40

τὸ μὲν οὖν κάλλος τῶν νοημάτων τῆς κοσμοποιίας οὐδεὶς οὔτε ποιητὴς οὔτε λογογράφος ἀξίως ἂν ὑμνῆσαι δύναιτο·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.6c. AD 75–95

ἤδη μὲν οὖν καὶ πρότερον διενοήθην, ὅτε τὸν πόλεμον συνέγραφον, δηλῶσαι τίνες ὄντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ τίσι χρησάμενοι τύχαις ὑφʼ οἵῳ τε παιδευθέντες νομοθέτῃ τὰ πρὸς εὐσέβειαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἄσκησιν ἀρετῆς πόσους τε πολέμους ἐν μακροῖς…

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.4c. AD 100

πεπεισμένος οὖν τοῦτο καὶ συνειδὼς ἐμαυτῷ, ὅτι ἐν ὑμῖν λαλήσας πολλὰ ἐπίσταμαι, ὅτι ἐμοὶ συνώδευσεν ἐν ὁδῷ δικαιοσύνης κύριος, καὶ πάντως ἀναγκάζομαι κἀγὼ εἰς τοῦτο, ἀγαπᾶν ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι μεγάλη πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη ἐγκατοικεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν ἐπ’…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. BC 2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 2nd c. BC
P.Grenf. 2 23Latopolites109 BC

χαίρειν. τοῦ παρʼ Ἑρμώνακτος τῶν ὁμοτίμων τοῖς συγγενέσι καὶ ὑποδιοικητοῦ χρηματισμοῦ ἀντίγραφον ὑπόκειται. κατακολουθήσας οὖν τοῖς διʼ αὐτοῦ σημαινομένοις χρημάτισον ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν Παθύρει τραπέζης, συνυπογράφοντος Φίβιος τοῦ…

P.Grenf. 1 30Pathyris104 BC

δὲ καὶ αὐτοί. μεταλαβόντες τοὺς συντετελεσμένους πρὸς τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς Ἑρμωνθίτας ἀγῶνας μεγάλως ἐχάρημεν. ἐπεὶ οὖν προκεχειρίκαμεν προστάτην τοῦ μεγίστου θεοῦ Νεχθφαραῦτος βεα … ρων … δια … στρατιωτῶν

Chrest.Wilck. 12Pathyris89 BC

ἐπιβεβληκέναι εἰς Μέμφιν, Ἱέρακα δὲ προκεχειρίσθαι μετὰ δυνάμεων μυρίων ἐπὶ καταστολὴν τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὅπως οὖν εἰδότες εὐθαρσεῖς ὑπάρχητε ἐκρίναμεν σημῆναι. ἔρρωσθε ἔτους λ Φαῶφι ιθ

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
καὶkai and G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
And or also, a connecting word used to join ideas or words, like in Matthew 2:18 and Hebrews 1:1.
Tyndale gloss
and
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

καί,

conj.,

and.

Copulative.

Connecting single words;

in general: Mt 2:18 16:1, Mk 2:15, Lk 8:15, He 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23, Lk 14:21, Ro 7:12 9:4, al.;

connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59, Mk 16:17,

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

καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…

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

και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καί (kai) — and.

καί,

conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,

__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,

__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

καί

kai

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also

a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in

connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,

also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,

yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καί

Cj.

and, even, also, namely

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καί kai 9x

(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
89%and
and89% · 8448×also8% · 714×other renderings2% · 191×other renderings1% · 124×

9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 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
adverbial16%subject13%object10%predicate3%verb2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8,978 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
ἐνἐπίπρός
σύ
χάριςgrace, favor, kiπρόςπατήρfather, Father,
ἐγώ
πατήρfather, Father, πρόςθεόςGod, a god
εἰμίI am, exist
αὐτόςArticle theἐγώ
θεόςGod, a god
Article theθέλημαwill, wish, desiδέbut, on the othe
καίand8978×
what comes after →
Article the
ἀδελφόςa brotherπατήρfather, Father, μήτηρa mother
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theπρός
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existμήNegδύναμαιI am powerful, a
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
Article theαὐτόςἀνήρa male human bei
ἐν
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, ὅλοςall, the whole,

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Concordanceκαί · 8,978× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Revelation Acts Mark John 1 Corinthians Romans Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

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 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

ἡ 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.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 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 καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

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

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
ἐγέμισανgemizō filled G1072 Verb · aorist · active · indicative · third person · plural
9× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To fill something completely, like the boat in Mark 4:37 or the water jars in John 2:7.
Tyndale gloss
to fill
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word γεμίζω (i.e., *gemizō*) means 'to fill' and is derived from γέμω (i.e., *gemō*). It covers the action of filling something completely, often used in contexts like loading a ship or filling containers. In the New Testament, it appears in several verses, including Mark and John, where it describes filling with various substances. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meaning or usage.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

γεμίζω

(< γέμω),

[in LXX: Ge 45:17 (טען), III Mac 5:47, IV Mac 3:14 * ;]

to fill;

properly, of a ship (Thuc, al.): Mk 4:37 (pass.).

In late writers, generally (MGr., v. Kennedy, Sources, 155), c. acc., seq. gen., Mk 15:36, Jo 2:7 6:13, Re 15:8; ἀπό, Lk 15:16, Rec. WH, mg.; ἐκ, Lk 15:16, WH, Re 8:5. Pass., absol.: Lk 14:23.†

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

γεμίζω : 1 aor. ἐγέμισα;; Pass., [pres. γεμίζομαι] ; 1 aor. ἐγεμίσθην; (γέμω, 4. v-); lo fill, fill full; a. absol. in pass.: Mk. iv. 37; Lk. xiv. 23. b. τί τινος, to fill a thing full of something : Mk. xv. 36; Jn. ii. 7; vi. 13; Rev. xv. 8, (Aeschyl. Ag. 443; al.); ri ἀπό τινος, of that which is used for filling, Lk. xv. 16 [not WH Trmrg.]; also in the same sense τὶ ἔκ τινος, Rev. viii. 5; [ef. Lk. xv. 16 in WH mrg.], (19 xn, Ex. xvi. 32; Jer. li. 34, ete. [cf. W. § 30, 8b.; B. 163 (143)]).

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

γεμίζω. The verb is used of loading a ship with grain in P Magd 1114 (B.C. 221) συντάξαι Εἰὐφράνορι. . . γεμίσαι τὸ πλοῖον ἐκ (cf. Rev 85) τῶν καθ᾽ αὑτὸν τόπων τὴν ταχίστην. In], 11 of the same papyrus we have the pass. γεμίζηται used absolutely, and similarly on the verso περὶ τ]οῦ [γεμι]σθῆναι αὐτοῦ τὸ mAoltfolv: cf. Mk 497, Lk 142%. Other examples of the verb are P Fay 1174 (A.D. 108) πάντα τὰ κτήνη γέμιζι (2. γέμιζε) βάκανον, ‘load all the animals with cabbage,”” 70, 118°3 (A.D. 110), P Tebt IL. 419}? (iii/A.p.) γέμεισον χόρτου, “load (the ass) with hay,” P Flor IL. 184} (iii/A.p.) γεμίσας τὰ ἐκκενωθέντα τότε σιτάρια, and 17 τοὺς τέσσαρες σάκκους γεμίσαι, P Rein 53% (iii/iv A.D.) τὰ ἀποσταλέντα καμήλια γέμωσον (see below) οἴνου. For the constr. with acc. and gen., as in this last instance and others (cf. Mk τον etc,), see also OG/S 3831* (i/B.c.) τρ]απέζας μὲν ἱερὰς πρεπούσης θοίνης…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

γεμίζω (gemizō) — to fill.

γεμ-ίζω,

(γέμω) fill full of, load, freight or charge with, properly of a ship, τινός [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γεμίσας τὴν ναῦν ξύλων Test. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of animals, load, κτήνη [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with doubleaccusative, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; σποδοῦ γ. λέβητας charging them with ashes, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; γεμίσω σε let me fill you, addressed to a cup, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὑτόν stuff, gorge, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν κοιλίαν ἀπό τινος variant in [NT]:—middle, [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, metaphorically of the Cyclops, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of bees, γεμισθεῖσαι ἀποπέτονται [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. later, with accusative of things, γεμίζειν ὕδωρ (i.e. τὴν ὑδρίαν) to fill it full of water, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] —passive, οἶνον, πῦρ γεμισθείς, [Refs 1st…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

γεμίζω

gemizo

transitive from 1073; to fill entirely:--fill (be) full.

see GREEK for 1073

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

γεμίζω

v.

I fill, load

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

γεμίζω gemizō 8x

to fill, Mt. 4:37; 15:36, et al.

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

γεμίζω γέμω to fill full of, to load or freight with, a cargo of a ship, c. gen., Thuc., etc.; σποδοῦ γ. λέβητας charging the urns with ashes, Aesch.:—Pass. to be laden or freighted, Dem.

later in Pass., c. acc., οἶνον γεμισθείς Anth.

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
38%filled
filled38% · 3×being filled up13% · 1×having filled13% · 1×may be filled13% · 1×do fill13% · 1×they filled13% · 1×

8 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 6 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
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 9 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
τὶςὕδωρwaterοὖνtherefore, then
ἤδηnow, already
ὥστεso that, therefo
ἵναin order that, so th
εἰσέρχομαιI go in, come in
ἐπιθυμέωI long for, covet, l
καίand, even, also,
ἸησοῦςJesus
Article the
γεμίζωfilled
what comes after →
Article the
πλοῖονa ship, vesselκοιλίαbelly, womb, theὑδρίαa water pot
αὐτός
ἕωςuntil, as far asἐκ
σπόγγοςa sponge
ὄξοςvinegar, sour wi
ἐγώ
Article the
δώδεκαIndec
κόφινοςa large basket

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

Concordanceγεμίζω · 9× in the New Testament
John Luke Mark Revelation
Across the New Testament4 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
Josephus Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaOn Joseph 207c. AD 40

Τῇ δ’ ὑστεραίᾳ ἅμα τῇ ἕῳ μεταπεμψάμενος τὸν ἐπίτροπον τῆς οἰκίας κελεύει τὰ ἀγγεῖα τῶν ἀνδρῶν ὅσα ἐπηνέγκαντο γεμίσαι σίτου καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τῶν στομίων τὴν τιμὴν ἐν βαλαντίοις καταθεῖναι, εἰς δὲ τὸ τοῦ νεωτάτου καὶ τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν ἀργυρῶν ἔκπωμα, ᾧ…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 2.303c. AD 75–95

θηρίων γὰρ παντοίων καὶ πολυτρόπων, ὧν εἰς ὄψιν οὐδεὶς ἀπηντήκει πρότερον, τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν ἐγέμισεν, ὑφʼ ὧν αὐτοί τε ἀπώλλυντο καὶ ἡ γῆ τῆς ἐπιμελείας τῆς παρὰ τῶν γεωργῶν ἀπεστερεῖτο, εἰ δέ τι καὶ διέφυγε τὴν ὑπʼ ἐκείνοις ἀπώλειαν, νόσῳ τοῦτο καὶ…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 6th c. AD 1st c. AD 2nd c. AD
P.Mich. 6 421Karanis (Arsinoites)AD 41–AD 68

σϙ καὶ ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐπέδωκα τῷ τῆς Καρανίδος ἀρχεφόδωι Πανκράτηι ὑπόμνημα καὶ σὺν τούτωι γεμίσας ἕτερον ὄνον ὕδατος καὶ τροφῶν ἕτερον ἐξωρμήσαμεν, τοὺς αἰτίους ἰχνοσκοποῦντες ὅθεν εὕρομεν τὴν πορείαν

SB 6 9025Oasis Parva (?) bzw. OxyrhynchosAD 101–AD 200

πάντες ἐπιστολὰς περὶ τῶν καμήλων πέμπουσι. ἐπέσχε τοὺς μετὰ τῶν καμήλων. μετὰ τὸ γὰρ γεμίσαι ἡμᾶς τοὺς καμήλους ὀστῶν, τότε ἠνέχθη ἡ ἐπιστολή. ἐδυνάμην γὰρ ἀγοράσειν τα … α

P.Fouad 1 29Bakchias (Arsinoites)AD 224

πρὸ ὀλίγων τούτων ἡμερῶν, τοῦ υἱοῦ μου Σατύρου περὶ δυσμὰς ἡλίου ἐξελθόντος εἰς τὸ γεμίσαι ὕδωρ εἰς πιεῖν, διὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ προκειμένῃ κώμῃ νειλιαῖον ὕδωρ μὴ εἶναι ἀλλὰ

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
δώδεκαdōdeka twelve G1427 Adjective · nominative
75× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means the number twelve, like the twelve apostles in Matthew 10:1. It is used to describe a dozen of something in the Bible.
Amplified meaning
a dozen
Tyndale gloss
twelve
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word δώδεκα (i.e., *dodeka*) means 'twelve' and is used as a numeral. It appears in various contexts in the New Testament, notably referring to the twelve apostles. The word is formed from the components for 'two' and 'ten' and is recognized across different dialects and historical texts.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

δώδεκα, οἱ, αἱ, τά indecl.

numeral, twelve: Mt 9:20 10:1, al.; οἱ δ., the apostles, Mt 10:5, Mk 4:10, al.; in Ac 19:7 24:11, for Rec. δεκαδύο.

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

δώδεκα, οἱ. ai, τά, [fr. Hom. down], twelve: Mt. ix. 20; x. 1; [L T Tr WH in Acts xix. 7; xxiv. 11 for δεκαδύο] ; Rev. vii. 5 [R Gu’); xxi. 21, ete. ; of δώδεκα, the twelve apostles of Jesus, so called by way of eminence: Mk. ix. BITS 35 BIDE Χτ TOUR hts ce-an IZ DING Π.Κ' χΧῚ 9; δδε

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

δώδεκα (dōdeka) — twelve.

δῠώδεκα,

Ionic dialect, Epic dialect, Lyric poetry; Attic dialect δώδεκα, twelve, in all genders, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—also δυόδεκο, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

δώδεκα

dodeka

from 1417 and 1176; two and ten, i.e. a dozen:--twelve.

see GREEK for 1417

see GREEK for 1176

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

δώδεκα

Indec.num.

twelve

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

δώδεκα dōdeka 75x

twelve, Mt. 9:20; 10:1; οἱ δώδεκα, the twelve apostles, Mt. 26:14, 20

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

δώδεκα δύο, δέκα twelve, Hom., etc.: v. δυώδεκα.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-NUI — Adjective · nominative
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-NUI Indeclinable NUmeral (Adjective)

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

twelv (shenem `asar; dodeka).

See APOSTLE; NUMBER.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
99%twelve
twelve99% · 76×other renderings1% · 1×

77 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 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
subject41%object31%adverbial12%predicate11%indirect object5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 75 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
εἷςoneδέbut, on the otheμετά
ἔτοςa year
γάρforγίνομαιI come into beinὡςas, like as, how
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakἀπόἐπί
κλάσμαa fragment
Article theαἴρωI raise, lift up
πυλώνa large gate, a gate
ἔχωI have, hold, poδώδεκαIndec
δώδεκαtwelve75×
what comes after →
χιλιάςa thousand
ἐκσφραγίζωI set a seal upoArticle the
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐπίἐπιτίθημιI put, place upoἐξίστημιI astonish, am a
Article the
λέγωI say, speakπαραβολήa parable, compaἐμβάπτωI dip into
φυλήa tribe, race
Article theκρίνωI judge, decide,υἱόςa son, descenden
μαθητήςa learner, disciple,
αὐτός

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

Concordanceδώδεκα · 75× in the New Testament
Revelation Mark Matthew Luke John Acts 1 Corinthians James
Across the New Testament8 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 36 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
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 60c. AD 40

ἐκ γὰρ μιᾶς ἡμέρας τὸ ἓν καὶ ἐκ δυοῖν τὰ δύο καὶ ἐκ τριῶν τὰ τρία καὶ ἐκ μηνὸς τὰ τριάκοντα καὶ ἐξ ἐνιαυτοῦ τὸ ἰσάριθμον ταῖς ἐκ δώδεκα μηνῶν ἡμέραις πλῆθος καὶ ἐξ ἀπείρου χρόνου ὁ ἄπειρος ἀριθμός.

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

Ἰακώβου φυγὴ εἰς τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν καὶ τὸν ἐκ τἀδελφοῦ φόβον, καὶ ὡς γήμας ἐκεῖ καὶ δώδεκα γεννήσας παῖδας πάλιν εἰς τὴν Χαναναίαν ἐπανῆλθεν.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 43.2c. AD 96

ἐκεῖνος γάρ, ζήλου ἐμπεσόντος περὶ τῆς ἱερωσύνης καὶ στασιαζουσῶν τῶν φυλῶν, ὁποία αὐτῶν εἴη τῷ ἐνδόξῳ ὀνόματι κεκοσμημένη, ἐκέλευσεν τοὺς δώδεκα φυλάρχους προσενεγκεῖν αὐτῷ ῥάβδους ἐπιγεγραμμένας ἑκάστης φυλῆς κατ̓ ὄνομα: καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὰς ἔδησεν καὶ…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 6th c. AD 3rd c. AD 7th c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Athen.. 21Karanis (Arsinoites)AD 131

ἐν χρήσει, τόκου δραχμιαίου τῇ μνᾷ τὸν μῆνα ἕκαστον, ἔτι δὲ καὶ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δώδεκα ἕκτον μέτρῳ ἑξαχοινίκῳ ἑρμηνέως Καρανίδος, ὧν καὶ τὴν ἀπόδοσιν ποιησάτω ἡ ὁμολογοῦσα τῶι Πεθεῖ

P.Harr. 2 190Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)AD 138

Νεμεσίων … … … ρος ἀπελευθερο Ἀμμωνίου τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου λαογραφίας κα ἔτους Ἑλληνείου δραχμὰς δώδεκα, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιβ προσδιαγραφομένων χαλκοῦ ὀβολοὶ ἕξ .

O.Wilck. 2 192Elephantine oder SyeneAD 143

μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Παχομψᾶχις βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Πετοννόφρις Ἁρμάχιος ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ β δραχμὰς δώδεκα ὀβολοὺς τρεῖς δραχμὰς ιβ τριώβολον ἔτους ϛ Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Παχὼν ιγ.

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
κοφίνουςkophinos hand-baskets G2894 Noun · accusative · plural · masculine
6× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
A 'kophinos' is a small wicker basket used to carry food, like the ones used to collect leftover bread after Jesus fed the crowds in Matthew 14:20 and Mark 6:43. These baskets were a common item in Jewish daily life.
Tyndale gloss
basket
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

κόφινος (kophinos) refers to a basket, often of wickerwork, used especially by Jews for carrying food. It appears in the New Testament six times, notably in the context of Jesus feeding the multitudes (e.g., Mt 14:20). Lexicons note that it is generally smaller than another type of basket called σπυρίς (spuris), though some suggest the distinction is more about material than size.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κόφινος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX: Jg 6:19 (סַל), Ps 80 (81):6 (דּוּד)*;]

a basket, probably of wicker-work, such as were carried by Jews for food: Mt 14:20 16:9, Mk 6:43 8:19 Lk 9:17 13:8, Jo 6:13 (cf. σφυρίς).†

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

κόφινος, -ov, 6, α basket, wicker basket, [cf. B. D. s. v. Basket]: Mt. xiv. 20; [xvi. 9]; Mk. vi. 43; [vili. 19]; Lk. ix.17; Jn. vi. 18. (Judg. vi. 19; Ps. Ixxx. (Ixxxi.) 7; Arstph. av. 1310; Xen. mem. 3, 8, 6; al.)

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

κόφινος. In an interesting note in 77:5 x. p. 567 ff. Dr. Hort has shown that the distinction between κόφινος and σπυρίς is one of material rather than of size, for either basket might be of different sizes, to judge by the uses mentioned in classical and patristic writers. This conclusion can now be confirmed from the Κοινή, as when in certain military accounts, P Oxy I. 43 (A.D. 295) we hear of κόφινοι holding 40 λίτραι-- ἴδ] 7 ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ κοφίνους δέκα ϑύο ἐκ λιτρῶν τεσσαράκοντα, and a little later ἵν. 16. of—Kodtvous ἀννῶνας, which contained only 20 λίτραι. For the contrast between the two words in Mk 8197. we may quote an ostrakon-letter from the middle of iii/z.c.—@Move Νίκωνος κόφινοι β Πτολεμαίωι ᾿Ασκληπιάδου σφυρίδιον (Archiv vi. p. 220, No. 841). Other exx. of κόφινος are—P Petr II. 39(2)* 44 (taxing accounts) εἰς κοφίνους, where the editor thinks the reference is to a box…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κόφινος (kophinos) — basket.

κόφῐν-ος, ὁ,

basket, accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+]; in later times used specially by Jews, [NT+1st c.AD+]

II. Boeotian measure, containing nine Attic choenices, i.e. about two gallons, κ. σίτου [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

κόφινος

kophinos

of uncertain derivation; a (small) basket:--basket.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κόφινος, ου, ὁ

n.m.

a large basket

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κόφινος kophinos 6x

a large basket, Mt. 14:20; 16:9; Mk. 6:43; 8:19; Lk. 9:17; Jn. 6:13*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κόφινος κόφι^νος, ὁ, a basket, Ar., Xen.; in later times used specially by Jews, NTest.; being apparently smaller than the σπυρίς.

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

N-APM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Thompson Chain Reference topics
Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%hand-baskets
hand-baskets100% · 6×

6 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
object83%subject17%

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
δώδεκαIndec
κλάσμαa fragmentγεμίζωI fill, load
πόσος
καίand, even, also,πεντακισχίλιοιfive thousand
κλάσμαa fragment
αὐτός
κόφινοςhand-baskets
what comes after →
κλάσμαa fragment
πλήρηςfullἐκ
πλήρηςfull
λαμβάνωI receive, take
πλήρωμαfullness, fulfillmen
καίand, even, also,
δώδεκαIndec

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

Concordanceκόφινος · 6× in the New Testament
Matthew Mark John Luke
Across the New Testament4 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
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 3rd c. BC 2nd c. BC 4th c. AD
P.Oxy. 4 739OxyrhynchosAD 1

α τετρώβολον, ἐλαίου δραχμαὶ δ διώβολον. δ. ἄλεστρα πεντώβολον, κονίου εἰς προσφάγιον ὀβολὸς. ε. κοφίνων γ ὀβολοὶ δ 𐅵. ϛ. βατανίων διώβολον, προσφαγίου οἰκοδόμου ὀβολὸς, ἐλαίου χοῦς δραχμαὶ δ

O.Claud. 4 839Mons ClaudianusAD 136–AD 137

δ λατομίᾳ ἄνθρακος με γ ζευκτηρία λιθοπο α κ εἰς στομωτήριον μυ ιϛ δερματικοὶ κόφινοι ζ λατομίᾳ ἄνθρακος ν στωμητηρίῳ μηχανῆς ἀσκοὶ δερματικοὶ δ στωμητηρίῳ ἄνθρακος με ρ κγ

O.Claud. 4 840Mons ClaudianusAD 136–AD 137

α ἀσκοὶ ὑδρηγοὶ α ζευκτηρία λιθοπο α κ εἰς στομωτήριον στρογγυλων μυ ιϛ κ κόφινοι βύρσινοι ζ λατομίᾳ με γ στομοτηρίῳ με διὰ Γαιωνᾶτος ἀσκοὶ δ ὑδρηγοί … διὰ

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
κλασμάτωνklasma of fragments G2801 Noun · genitive · plural · neuter
9× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
A fragment is a broken piece of something, like the leftovers from the feeding of the 5000 in Matthew 14 and Mark 6.
Amplified meaning
fragments, broken bits
Tyndale gloss
fragment
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word κλάσμα (klasma) means a fragment or broken piece, derived from κλάω (klao). It is used in the New Testament to refer to remnants of food, particularly in the context of the feeding miracles (e.g., Matthew 14:20). The word also appears in early Christian texts related to the Eucharist.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κλάσμα, -τος, τό

(< κλάω),

[in LXX for פַּת, פֶּלַח;]

a broken piece, fragment: Mt 14:20 15:37, Mk 6:43 8:8, 19, 20, Lk 9:17, Jo 6:12, 13.†

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

κλάσμα, -ros, τό, (kAdw), a fragment, broken piece: plur., of remnants of food, Mt. xiv. 20; xv. 37; Mk. vi. 43; viii. 8,19 sq.; Lk.ix.17; Jn.vi.12sq. (Xen. cyn. 10,5; Diod. 17,13; Plut. ΤΊ. Gr.19; Anthol.; Sept.)

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

κλάσμα. This late Greek word occurs frequently in two temple inventories found at Delos—J/iche/ 833 (B.C. 279) and Syi/ 588 (c. B.c. 180). Thus in the latter we read of 123 στεφάνου κισσίνου κλάσματα, 1° κλάσματα παντοδαπά, α΄. See also Vett. Val. p. rro%+34. In Didache ix. 3f. κλάσμα is used of the broken bread of the Agape and Eucharist.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κλάσμα (klasma) — fragment.

κλάσ-μα, ατος, τό,

fragment, morsel, [LXX+2nd c.BC+]

II. lesion, rupture, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

κλάσμα

klasma

from 2806; a piece (bit):--broken, fragment.

see GREEK for 2806

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κλάσμα, ατος, τό

n.n.

a fragment

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κλάσμα klasma 9x

a piece broken off, fragment, Mt. 14:20; 15:37; Mk. 6:43; 8:8, 19, 20; Lk. 9:17; Jn. 6:12f.*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κλάσμα κλάσμα, ατος, τό, κλάω that which is broken off, a fragment, morsel, NTest., Plut.

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

N-GPN Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%fragments
fragments100% · 9×

9 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
object78%subject11%adverbial11%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 9 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
περισσεύωI exceed, am lef
κόφινοςa large basket
πόσοςδώδεκαIndec
αἴρωI raise, lift up
καίand, even, also,
περίσσευμαabundance
αἴρωI raise, lift up
πλήρωμαfullness, fulfillmen
σπυρίςa plaited basket
κλάσμαof fragments
what comes after →
δώδεκαIndec
κόφινοςa large basket
αἴρωI raise, lift up
ἑπτάIndecκαίand, even, also,
ἑπτάIndec
σπυρίςa plaited basket
πλήρηςfull
αἴρωI raise, lift up
κόφινοςa large basket
δώδεκαIndec

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

Concordanceκλάσμα · 9× in the New Testament
Mark John Matthew Luke
Across the New Testament4 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus The Didache
JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 10.244c. AD 75–95

καὶ τοῦτο κλάσμα δηλοῖ καθʼ Ἑλλάδα γλῶτταν·

The DidacheThe Didache 9.4c. AD 100

ὥσπερ ἦν τοῦτο τὸ κλάσμα διεσκορπισμένον ἐπάνω τῶν ὀρέων καὶ συναχθὲν ἐγένετο ἕν, οὕτω συναχθήτω σου ἡ ἐκκλησία ἀπὸ τῶν περάτων τῆς γῆς εἰς τὴν σὴν βασιλείαν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
7th c. AD 8th c. AD 1st c. AD
CdÉ 61 (1986), p. 281- no. 19Mons ClaudianusAD 1–AD 200

ἄρτων μάτια ϛ ζεύγη γ· ζύστρα· κεράμιον κριθῆς α 𐅵· ἄλλο κεράμιον κλασμάτων· πέτασον· σφυρίδιον· κερβικάριον· κάση παλαιά· θύσκαι δύο · βαυκάλεις δύο . καὶ παρὰ Διονύσιον·

P.Sarga $13Wadi SargaAD 501–AD 800

φορᾶς διὰ Ἀνδρέου οἴνου φοραὶ ιζ καὶ μέγα α 𐅵 κλ … … … κλάσμα οἴνου φοραὶ ϛ καὶ μεγάλα β καὶ κνίδια ϛ καὶ σιπλ

P.Heid. 11 469AD 601–AD 800

ἔστι ἡ διαστολὴ τῶν νομισμάτων μ πραγματευτῶν οὕτως ὑπὲρ τῶν κλασμάτων τῆς καταγραφῆς νομίσματα κε ϛ … νομίσματα κϛ 𐅵 γ Column i Ἀπολλῶ Ἠλία

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
ἐκek from G1537 Preposition
913× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The preposition 'out from' shows movement or origin, like in John 6:31 and Acts 9:3. It helps us understand where people or things come from or are going.
Tyndale gloss
out from
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἐκ (transliterated as ek) is a preposition that means 'from' or 'out of,' governing the genitive case. It indicates origin, separation, or motion away from a place, time, or cause. In the New Testament, it is used to denote various relationships, such as source or distinction, and appears in contexts like John 6:31 and Matthew 1:3. Different lexicons highlight its versatility in both literal and metaphorical senses.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐκ (ἐξ),

prep. c. gen.,

from out of, from (see Addendum, p. 492).

ἐκ, before a vowel ἐξ,

prep. c. gen.,

of motion outwards, separation from (opp. to εἰς; = Lat. e, ex), from out of, from among, from.

Of Place,

of motion, out of, forth from, off from: Jo 6:31, Ac 9:3, Ga 1:8, al.; esp. after verbs of motion, Mt 8:28 17:9, Mk 1:25 7:28, Jo 1:33 20:1, Ac 12:7, 17 27:30, al.; constr. praeg., σώζειν (διας.) ἐκ, Ju 5, Ac 28:4. Metaph., Mt 7:4, 5, I Pe 2:9; ἐκ τ.…

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

ἐκ, before a vowel ἐξ, a preposition governing the genitive. It denotes as well exit or emission out of, as separation from, something with which there has been close connection ; opp. to the prepositions εἰς into and ἐν in: from out of, out from, forth from, from, (Lat. e, ex), [ οἵ. W. 364, 366 (343) sq.; B. 326 sq. (281)]. It is used I. of Pace, and 1. univ. of the place from which; from a surrounding or enclosing place, from the interior of: ἄρτος, ἄγγελος, φῶς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, Jn. vi. 81 sq.; Acts ix. 3 [here RG ἀπό]; Gal. 1. 8; ἀνατολή, δύναμις ἐξ ὕψους, Lk. i. 78; xxiv. 49; esp. after verbs of going, fleeing, leading, calling, freeing, removing, releasing, etc. : ἥκειν ἐκ τῆς ᾿Ιουδαίας eis τ. Γαλιλαίαν, Jn. iv. 47; ἐξέρχεσθαι ἔκ τινος out of the body of one (spoken of demons), Mk. i. 25; v. 8 [here L mrg. ἀπό]; vii. 29; of power emanating from the body, Mk. v. 30 [cf. B. 301 (258)…

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

ἐκ 190 passages as P Tebt I. 23" (c. B.C. 119 or 114) οὐκ ὀρθῶς κρίνομεν πέπρακταί σοι μὴ ἐκ τῆς ἡμῶν προεδρίας πεφροντικέναι ἀπροσδέητον ἑτέρων γενέσθαι, ‘I consider that you have acted badly in not having been careful that he should be independent of others owing to my superior rank ”’ (Edd. ), 24. 248° (B.c. 117) ἔκ τε τῆς πλείστης προσεδρείας, ‘on account of the prolonged attendance ’’ (Edd.), and P Fay 12} (c. B.C. 103) ἐκ κοινολογ[ς(]α[ς] τ[ἢ]ς συνσταθείσης πρὸς αὐτούς, ‘‘as the result of the colloquy which took place between τ᾿ (Edd.). From this it is an easy transition to the meaning ‘‘ according to”’ or “in accordance with,’’ as in the common legal phrase καθάπερ ἐγ δίκης, ‘‘as if in accordance with a legal decision,’’ z. δ. ‘‘as if a formal decree of the court had been obtained,’’ as in P Eleph 1132 (B.C. 311-0) (= Selections, p- 3), P Ryl 11. 15435 (a.p. 66): cf. P Petr III.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἐκ (ek) — out from.

ἐκ,

before a vowel ἐξ, also

__A ἐξ τῳ ϝοίκῳ [Refs] and less frequently ; ἐγ- in Inscrr. before β γ δ λ μ ; Cretan dialect and Boeotian dialect ἐς [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐχ frequently in Attic dialect Inscrr. before χ φ θ (and in early Inscrr. before ς, [Refs]:—preposition governing GEN. only (except in [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—radical sense, from out of, frequently also simply, from.

__A.I OF PLACE, the most frequently usage, variously modified:

__A.I.1 of Motion, out of, forth from, ἐκ Πύλου ἐλθὼν τηλόθεν ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης [Refs 8th c.BC+] to strike with a spear in the hand, opposed to ἀντιτοξεύειν or ἀκοντίζειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ χρυσῶν φιαλῶν πίνειν[Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐκ

ek

or ex ex

a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or

motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or

figurative; direct or remote):--after, among, X are, at,

betwixt(-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above),

for(- th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X

heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, ...ly, (because, by reason) of,

off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth,

through,

X unto, X vehemently, with(-out). Often used in composition,

with the same general import; often of completion.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἐκ, ἐξ

Prep.

from out, out from among, from

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐκ ek 915x

ἐχ before vowels, with genitive, from, out of, a place, Mt. 2:15; 3:17; of, from, out of, denoting origin or source, Mt. 1:3; 21:19; of, from some material, Mt. 3:9; Rom. 9:21; of, from, among, partitively, Mt. 6:27; 21:31; Mk. 9:17; from, denoting cause, Rev. 8:11; 17:6; means or instrument, Mt. 12:33, 37; by, through, denoting the author or efficient cause, Mt. 1:18; Read the full entry →

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἐκ

ἐξ before a vowel, ἐγ before β γ δ λ μ prep. governing GEN. only, Lat. e, exRadical sense, from out of, opp. to εἰς:

out of, from. c. gen.

OF PLACE:

of Motion, out of, forth from, Hom., etc.: ἐκ θυμοῦ φίλεον I loved her from my heart, with all my heart, Il.

to denote change from one place or condition to another, κακὸν ἐκ κακοῦ one evil from (or after) another, id. Il.; λόγον ἐκ λόγου λέγειν Dem.

to express distinction from a number, ἐκ πόλεων πίσυρες four out of many, Il.

of Position, like ἔξω, outside of, beyond, ἐκ βελέων out of shot, id. Il.; ἐκ καπνοῦ out of the smoke, Od.

with Verbs of Rest, ἐκ ποταμοῦ χρόα νίζετο washed his body with water from the river, id. Od.:—with Verbs signifying to hang or fasten, ἐκ πασσαλόφι κρέμασεν φόρμιγγα he hung his lyre from (i. e. on) the peg, id.…

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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
28%of
of28% · 258×from26% · 243×out of23% · 216×out from7% · 61×by5% · 51×at2% · 20×other renderings8% · 70×other renderings1% · 14×

933 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 26 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
adverbial69%predicate15%subject11%object5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 913 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,ὅτιthat, since, becἀνάστασιςa rising again,
αὐτός
ἐγείρωI wake, arouse, ἀνίστημιI raise up, set καταβαίνωI go down, come
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςσύἐγώ
εἰμίI am, exist
οὐNegArticle theτίςIrg
εἷςone
καίand, even, also,ὅτιthat, since, becαὐτός
ἐκfrom913×
what comes after →
Article the
οὐρανόςthe sky, the heaθεόςGod, a godστόμαthe mouth, speec
αὐτός
εἰμίI am, existArticle theκαίand, even, also,
νεκρόςdead, a corpse
ἀνίστημιI raise up, set ἐγείρωI wake, arouse, καίand, even, also,
σύ
παραδίδωμιI hand over, delμεριμνάωI am anxious, diἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
πίστιςfaith, belief, trust
ζάωI liveἸησοῦςJesusἀλλάbut, except

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

Concordanceἐκ · 913× in the New Testament
John Revelation Luke Acts Matthew Mark Romans Galatians 1 Corinthians 1 John 2 Corinthians Hebrews

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament26 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
τῶνho the G3588 Article · genitive · plural · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John 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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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

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-GPM — Article · genitive · plural · masculine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-GPM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

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
the19783×
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.

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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

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
πέντεpente five G4002 Adjective · nominative
38× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The Greek word for the number five, used in Matthew 14:17 when Jesus fed the five thousand with five loaves of bread, showing his power to provide.
Amplified meaning
the number of humility
Tyndale gloss
five
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

πέντε (pente) is an indeclinable number meaning 'five.' It appears in various contexts, including the New Testament, specifically in Matthew 14:17 and 16:9. The word is consistent across lexicons, with no significant disagreement noted.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πέντε, indecl., οἱ, αἱ, τά,

five: Mt 14:17, al.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πέντε (pente) — five.

πέντε,

Aeolic dialect πέμπε (which see), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable (declined in Aeolic dialect), five, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ πέντε κρατήσας having won the πένταθλον, [Refs 5th c.BC+] penq[uglide]e, cf. Sanskrit páñca, Lithuanian penki, etc. 'five'.)

Strong's Greek Dictionary

πέντε

pente

a primary number; "five":--five.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πέντε, οἱ, αἱ, τά

Indec.num.

five

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πέντε pente 38x

five, Mt. 14:17, 19; 16:9

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πέντε five, Hom., etc.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-NUI — Adjective · nominative
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-NUI Indeclinable NUmeral (Adjective)

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fiv (chamesh; pente).

See NUMBER.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%five
five100% · 38×

38 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
object61%adverbial18%subject16%predicate5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 38 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
λαμβάνωI receive, takeArticle theμνημονεύωI remember, make
ἄλλοςother, another, diff
κερδαίνωI gain, win, avoπροσφέρωI bring to, offeὁράωI see, look upon
μήν (II)a month
ἑαυτοῦβασανίζωI torment, tortuἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
μήNeg
εἰCond
καίand, even, also, nam
μωρόςstupid, foolish
πέντεfive38×
what comes after →
ἄρτοςbread, a loaf, food
καίand, even, also,Article theκλάωI break
τάλαντονa talent of silver o
λαμβάνωI receive, takeὅςλέγωI say, speak
καίand, even, also, nam
δύοἰχθύςa fishπορεύομαιI travel, journe
δέbut, on the other ha
ἐκ
φρόνιμοςintelligent, prudent

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

Concordanceπέντε · 38× in the New Testament
Matthew Luke Acts John Mark Revelation 1 Corinthians
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 120 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
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 48c. AD 40

περιέχει δ’ ἡ τετρὰς καὶ τοὺς λόγους τῶν κατὰ μουσικὴν συμφωνιῶν, τῆς τε διὰ τεττάρων καὶ διὰ πέντε καὶ διὰ πασῶν καὶ προσέτι δὶς διὰ πασῶν, ἐξ ὧν σύστημα τὸ τελειότατον ἀπογεννᾶται·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.83c. AD 75–95

Σῆθος δὲ κατὰ πέμπτον καὶ διακοσιοστὸν ἔτος ἐγέννησεν Ἄνωσον, ὃς πέντε ζήσας ἔτη καὶ ἐνακόσια Καϊνᾷ τῷ παιδὶ τὴν τῶν πραγμάτων ἐπιμέλειαν δίδωσι τεκνώσας αὐτὸν περὶ ἐνενηκοστὸν καὶ ἑκατοστὸν ἔτος·

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 2.2.1c. AD 140

Μετὰ δὲ δέκα καὶ πέντε ἡμέρας νηστεύσαντός μου καὶ πολλὰ ἐρωτήσαντος τὸν κύριον ἀπεκαλύφθη μοι ἡ γνῶσις τῆς γραφῆς.

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2nd c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Grenf. 2 33Pathyris101 BC

τῶν ἱερέων ἐτῶν δέκα εἰς τὰ ἐνλιπόντα αὐτῷ ἑτέρων , τεσσάρων εἰς συμπλήρωσιν ἐτῶν πέντε , ὥστε γεωργῆσαι ἧς ἔθεντο μίσθωσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ προκειμένου ἔτους οὗ καὶ συμπεπεῖσθαι αὐτῷ

P.Adl. 17Krokodilopolis (Pathyrites)100 BC

πεδίωι Κροκοδίλων πόλεως γῆς ἠπείρου σιτοφόρου ἀρουρῶν εἴκοσι μιᾶς τῶν ἐν Σω ῥοῇ ἀρούρας πέντε τέταρτον , ὧν παρὰ νότου ἐπὶ βορρᾶν σχοινίου ἑνὸς τετάρτου , ἀπηλιώτου ἐπὶ λίβα

P.Cair. Goodspeed 9Pathyris100 BC–99 BC

Πανεβχώνιος. ἐκμισθωθείσης μοι τῆς νήσου καλουμένης Περχμασσινηιτ εἰς τὸ ιϛ ἔτος πυροῦ ἀρτάβας τεσσαράκοντα πέντε γίνονται πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι με ὄρνιθας ι ὑγίαινε

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
ἄρτωνartos loaves G740 Noun · genitive · plural · masculine
97× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word refers to bread, like the loaves Jesus multiplied in Matthew 4:3. It can also mean food in general or a loaf of bread, and is used to describe Christ as the bread of life in John 6:33.
Amplified meaning
bread, food
Tyndale gloss
bread
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἄρτος (i.e., *artos*) means bread or a loaf, primarily made from wheat. It is used in various contexts in the New Testament, including references to the bread of the Last Supper (Mt 26:26) and general food (Mt 6:11). The entries highlight its metaphorical use, particularly in relation to Christ as the 'bread of life' (John 6:35).

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἄρτος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for לֶחֶם;]

bread, a loaf: Mt 4:3, 4, Mk 3:20, al.; ἄρτοι τ. προθέσεως, bread of the setting forth, i.e. the shewbread. Metaph., ὁ ἄ. τ. θεοῦ, τ. ζωῆς, ref. to Christ, Jo 6:33, 35; in general, food: Mt 6:11, al.; ἄ. φαγεῖν (Heb. אֲכֹל לֶחֶם), to eat (MM, s.v.), Lu 14:1, al.

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

ἄρτος, -ov, 6, (fr. APO to fit, put together, [cf. Etym Magn. 150, 36—but doubtful]), bread; Hebr. ὉΠ: 1. food composed of flour mixed with water and baked ; the Israelites made it in the form of an oblong or round cake, as thick as one’s thumb, and as large as a plate or platter (cf. Win. RWB. 5. v. Backen; [BB.DD.]); hence it was not cut, but broken (see κλάσις and κλάω) : Mt. iv. 3; vii. 9; xiv.17,19; Mk. vi.36 [T Tr WH om. Lbr.], 37 sq.; Lk. iv. 3; xxiv. 30; Jn. vi. 5 sqq.; Acts xxvii. 35, and often; ἄρτοι τῆς προθέσεως. loaves consecrated to Jehovah, see πρόθεσις ; on the bread used at the love-feasts and the sacred supper [W. 35], ef. Mt. xxvi. 26; Mk. xiv. 22; Lk. xxii. 19; Acts ii. 42,46; xx. 7; 1 Co. x. 16 sq.; xi. 26-28. 2. As in Grk. writ., and like the Hebr. om, food of any kind; Mt. vi. 11; Mk. vi. 8; Lk. xi. 3; 2 Co. ix. 10; ὁ ἄρτος τῶν τέκνων the food served to the…

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ἄρτος is frequently found with καθαρός = ‘pure or ‘‘ white bread,” e.g. P Tebt II. 468 οἴνου κε(ράμιον) ἃ, ἄρτων κα(θαρῶν) ἃ (= 10 Choenices? Edd.). P Oxy IV. 736%6 (a lengthy private account, ¢. A.D. 1) ἄρτου καθαροῦ παιδ(ῶν) ἡμιωβέλιον) ‘pure bread for the children $ obol,” P Giss

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἄρτος (artos) — bread.

ἄρτος, ὁ,

cake or loaf of wheat-bread, mostly in plural, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄρτος οὖλος a whole loaf, [Refs]; collectively, bread, δούλιον ἄρτον ἔδων[Refs 7th c.BC+]; opposed to μᾶζα (porridge), [Refs 5th c.BC+] —Freq. in all writers.

II. ἄρτος· βόλος τις, καὶ ὁ Ἀθηναίων ξένος, [Refs 5th c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἄρτος

artos

from 142; bread (as raised) or a loaf:--(shew-)bread, loaf.

see GREEK for 142

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἄρτος, ου, ὁ

n.m.

bread, a loaf, food

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἄρτος artos 97x

bread; a loaf or thin cake of bread, Mt. 26:26; food, Mt. 15:2; Mk. 3:20; bread, maintenance, living, necessaries of life, Mt. 6:11; Lk. 11:3; 2 Thess. 3:8

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἄρτος Deriv. uncertain. a cake or loaf of wheat-bread (barley-bread is μᾶζα), mostly in pl., Od.; ἄρτος οὖλος soft bread, id. Od.

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

N-GPM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Smith's Bible Dictionary

[BREAD]

Nave's Topical Bible

→ Miracle of the five Mt 14:15-21; 16:9; Lu 9:12-17

→ Miracle of the seven Mt 15:34-38; 16:10

→ See BREAD

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
62%bread
bread62% · 61×loaves32% · 32×loaf3% · 3×other renderings3% · 3×

99 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 6 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
object68%adverbial13%subject9%predicate8%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 97 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
εἰμίI am, existκαίand, even, also,λαμβάνωI receive, take
πέντεIndec
Article theμήNegἔχωI have, hold, po
λαμβάνωI receive, take
καίand, even, also,ἐπιλανθάνομαιI forget, neglecαὐτός
ὅτιthat, since, because
λέγωI say, speakὀλιγόπιστοςof little faithἀλλήλων
ἑπτάIndec
Article the
ἄρτοςloaves97×
what comes after →
Article the
πρόθεσιςthe show-bread, δέbut, on the otheτέκνονa child, descend
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theδίδωμιI offer, giveδύο
οὐNeg
ἔχωI have, hold, poλαμβάνωI receive, takeἀρκέωI am sufficient,
εὐχαριστέωI thank, give thanks
κλάωI breakArticle the
ἐγώ
Article theδέbut, on the othe

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

Concordanceἄρτος · 97× in the New Testament
John Matthew Mark Luke 1 Corinthians Acts 2 Thessalonians 2 Corinthians Hebrews
Across the New Testament9 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 149 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 Josephus Ignatius of Antioch The Didache The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 3.81c. AD 40

ἄρτους γὰρ καὶ οἶνον προσφέρει, ἅπερ Ἀμμανῖται καὶ Μωαβῖται τῷ βλέποντι παρασχεῖν οὐκ ἠθέλησαν, οὗ χάριν ἐκκλησίας εἴργονται καὶ συλλόγου θείου·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.197c. AD 75–95

ἐπινευσάντων δὲ ἄρτους τε προσέταξεν εὐθὺς ἐκ σεμιδάλεως γενέσθαι, καὶ μόσχον θύσας καὶ ὀπτήσας ἐκόμισεν αὐτοῖς ὑπὸ τῇ δρυῒ κατακειμένοις·

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 3.3c. AD 100

διάθρυπτε πεινῶσιν τὸν ἄρτον σου, καὶ γυμνὸν ἐὰν ἴδῃς περίβαλε: ἀστέγους εἴσαγε εἰς τὸν οἶκον σου, καὶ ἐὰν ἴδῃς ταπεινόν, οὐχ ὑπερόψῃ αὐτόν, οὐδὲ ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκείων τοῦ σπέρματός σου.

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2nd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC
P.Athen.. 14Philadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 22

ἀρταβῶν εἴκοσι πέντε , πάσας δὲ μέτρῳ τετάρτῳ ἐκ πόρων καὶ θαλλοῦ κατʼ ἔτος ἄρτων ἀρτάβης μιᾶς , πάντα δὲ ἀκίνδυνα παντὸς κινδύνου, τὰ δʼ ἔργα πάντα καὶ τὴν

P.Mich. 2 126Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 46–AD 49

ἀπέχει τὸν φόρον καὶ βεβαιοῖ. ὑπογραφεὺς Σεραπίων Πτολαιμαίου. Σαμβαθ ἐπὶ Σαμβα … το … ἄρτοι ϛ. Θερμούθι α Ταορσεῦτι α Ταορσενούφι β ἑκάστῃ τῶν γραῶν α

P.Fay. 119Euhemeria (Arsinoites)AD 103

ἀλέκτορας δέκα ἀγοράσας καὶ εἰς τὰ γενέσια Γεμέλλης πέμψεις ὀψάρια καὶ … … καὶ ἄρτον πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α.

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
τῶνho <the> G3588 Article · genitive · plural · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John 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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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-GPM — Article · genitive · plural · masculine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-GPM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

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

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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

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
κριθίνωνkrithinos barley G2916 Adjective · genitive · plural · masculine
2× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Barley is also described in John 6:9 and 13, where Jesus fed a crowd with barley loaves. The term can also refer to things made of barley, like bread or other products.
Amplified meaning
thin, coarse
Tyndale gloss
barley
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word κρίθινος (krithinos) means 'made of barley.' It appears in the New Testament in John 6:9 and 6:13, where it refers to barley bread. The term is derived from κριθή (krithē), which also means barley, and is used in various contexts, including references to food and drink.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κρίθινος, -η, -ον

(< κριθή),

[in LXX for שְׂעֹרָה;]

of barley: Jo 6:9, 13.

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

κρίθινος, -n, -ov, (κριθή). of barley, made of barley: ἄρτοι (2K. iv. 42, ef. Judg. vii. 13), Jn. vi. 9,13. [(Hippon., al.)]

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

κρίθινος declension κρέας κρέατος must have prevailed in the Kow4 in view of the MGr κρέατο, κριάτο. For the diminutive κρεάδιον see the soldier’s begging letter, BGU IIT. 8145 (iii/a.p.), in which the writer complains that his mother had sent him nothing, while a friend’s mother had sent her son κεραμεῖον ἐλαίου κ[αὶ] σφυρίδαν κρεδίων (/. κρεαδίων). κρείσσων, κρείττων, is always strictly comparative in the NT, cf. P Oxy XIV. 1676'® (iii/A.D.) ἀλλὰ πάντως κρείττονα εἶχες" διὰ τοῦτο ὑπερηφάνηκας ἡμᾶς, “but you doubtless had better things to do; that was why you neglected us” (Ed.). It is found with a superlative force in such a passage as P Oxy VII. 1062° (ii/A.D.) προσθεὶς ὅτι τὰ θέρειά ἐστιν τὰ κρείσσονα, “‘adding that the summer ones were the best ”’ (Ed.)—a letter referring to the purchase of some fleeces. On the relative proportion of the two forms in the LXX, see Thackeray Gr. i.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κρίθινος (krithinos) — barley.

κρῑθ-ῐνος, η, ον,

made of or from barley, κόλλιξ, ἄρτος, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; κ. ὕδωρ [Refs] beer, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: metaphorically, κ. Δημοσθένης, 'gingerbread Demosthenes', nickname of Dinarchus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

κρίθινος

krithinos

from 2915; consisting of barley:--barley.

see GREEK for 2915

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κρίθινος, η, ον

Adj

made of barley

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κρίθινος krithinos 2x

made of barley, Jn. 6:9, 13*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κρίθινος κρίθι^νος, η, ον made of or from barley, Xen., etc.

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

A-GPM Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bar'-li (se`orah):

(1) In the Bible, as in modern times, barley was a characteristic product of Palestine--"a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees," etc. (De 8:8), the failure of whose crop was a national disaster (Joe 1:11). It was, and is, grown chiefly as provender for horses and asses (1Ki 4:28), oats being practically unknown, but it was, as it now is, to some extent, the food of the poor in country districts (Ru 2:17; 2Ki 4:42; Joh 6:9,13). Probably this is the meaning of the dream of the Midianite concerning Gideon: "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, lo…

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Barley

A grain much cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31) and in Palestine (Lev. 27:16; Deut. 8:8). It was usually the food of horses (1 Kings 4:28). Barley bread was used by the poorer people (Judg. 7:13; 2 Kings 4:42). Barley of the first crop was ready for the harvest by the time of the Passover, in the middle of April (Ruth 1:22; 2 Sam. 21:9). Mention is made of barley-meal (Num. 5:15). Our Lord fed five thousand…

Smith's Bible Dictionary

is one of the most important of the cereal grains, and the most hardy of them all. It was grown by the Hebrews, (Leviticus 27:16; 8:8; Ruth 2:17) etc., who used it for baking into bread chiefly among the poor, (Judges 7:13; 2 Kings 4:42; John 6:9,13) and as fodder for horses. (1 Kings 4:28) The barley harvest, (Ruth 1:22; 2:23; 2 Samuel 21:9;10) takes place in Palestine in March and April, and in the hilly district as late as May. It always precedes the wheat…

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Sown in Palestine in autumn, and reaped in the spring, that is, at the Passover. The Hebrews frequently used barley bread, 2Sa 1:27; 2Ki 4:42; Joh 6:9. Barley also was much used as food for cattle, 1Ki 4:28.

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%barley
barley100% · 2×

2 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.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
ἄρτοςbread, a loaf, food
πέντεIndec
Article the
ἄρτοςbread, a loaf, f
κρίθινοςbarley
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
δύο
ὅς
περισσεύωI exceed, am lef

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Concordanceκρίθινος · 2× in the New Testament
John
Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. BC
P.Heid. 9 425Herakleopolis159 BC

δι’ οὗ προεφέρετο τῆι φερούσηι νυκτὶ ἐπελθόντας τινὰς ἐπὶ τὸν δηλούμενον κλῆρον ὠιχῆσθαι ἔχοντας κριθίνων … … … … … ποιήσεις συντάξας προνοηθῆναι

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
hos, hē which G3739 Relative pronoun · nominative · plural · neuter
1,407× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
The word which is a pronoun used to ask for or identify something, as seen in John 5:11. It can also be used to describe a person or thing, such as in Mark 15:23. This word helps to clarify or specify what is being talked about.
Tyndale gloss
which
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ὅς is a pronoun meaning 'who,' 'which,' 'what,' or 'that.' It serves as both a demonstrative and a relative pronoun, agreeing in gender with its antecedent. The New Testament uses it in various constructions, including phrases like ὃς μὲν... ὃς δέ to indicate contrasting subjects. Notably, it can express purpose or cause in certain contexts.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὅς, ἥ, ὅ,

the postpositive article (ἄρθρον ὑποτακτικόν).

As demonstr. pron. = οὗτος, ὅδε, this, that, also for αὐτός, chiefly in nom.: ὅς δέ, but he (cf. ἦ δὲ ὅς, freq. in Plat.), Mk 15:23, Jo 5:11; ὃς μὲν . . . ὃς δέ, the one . . . the other, Mt 21:35 22:5 25:15, Lk 23:33, Ac 27:14, Ro 14:5, I Co 11:21, II Co 2:16, Ju 22; neut., ὃ μὲν . . . ὃ δέ, the one . . . the other, some . . . some, Mt 13:8, 23, Read the full entry →

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ὅς 455 ὅς iii. 5 [RG], 6; Heb. vi. 10; ix. 20; Jas. ii. 5; 1 In. iii. 24; Jude 15; for other exx. see below; ἐν ὥρᾳ 7 οὐ γινώoxet, Mt. xxiv. 50; τῇ παραδύσει 9 παρεδώκατε, Mk. vii. 13 ; add, Lk. ii. 20; v. 9; ix. 435 xii. 46; xxiv. 25; Jn. xvii. 5; Acts ii. 22; xvii. 31; xx. 38; 2 Co. xii. 21; 2Th.i. 4; Rev. xviii. 6; ef. W. § 24,1; [B. as above]. Rarely attraction oceurs where the verb governs the dative [but see below]: thus, κατέναντι οὗ ἐπίστευσε θεοῦ for xarévavre θεοῦ, ᾧ ἐπίστευσε (See κατέναντι). Ro. iv. 17; φωνῆς, ἧς ἔκραξα (for 7 (al. ἥν, οἴ. W. 164 (154 sq.) Β. 287 (217)}7), Acts xxiv. 21, οἵ. Is. vi. 4; (7γετο δὲ καὶ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ τε πιστῶν, οἷς ἥδετο καὶ ὧν ἠπίστει πολλούς, for καὶ πολλοὺς τούτων, οἷς ἠπίστει, Xen. Cyr. ὅ, 4, 39; ὧν ἐγὼ ἐντετύχηκα οὐδείς; for οὐδεὶς τούτων, οἷς ἐντετ. Plato, Gorg. p. 509 ἃ.; Protag. p. 361 6.; derep.7 p.531e.; παρ᾽ ὧν βοηθεῖς, οὐδεμίαν λήψει…

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ος is found as a demonstrative pronoun in P Ryl II. 14415 (complaint of assault—a.D. 38) ὃς δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου ἄλογον ἀηδίαν μοι ἐπιχειρήσας παρεχρήσατό μοι πολλὰ καὶ ἄσχημα, ‘“whereupon he opposing me made a brutal and odious attack upon me and subjected me to much shameful mishandling” (Edd.): cf. Mk 15%, Jn 51. For ὃς μέν... ὃς δέ, “the one . . the other,” as in Mt 21° a/., see P Oxy IX. 1189? (c. A.D. 117) ἐπιστολὰς δύο ds ἔγραψα ἣν μὲν σοὶ ἣν δὲ Σαβείνῳ, and for ὃς δέ solétarium see PSI. IV. 313° (iii/iv A.D.) with the editor’s note. Ὃς ἄν (ἐάν) c. conj. = ‘‘ whosoever ” may be illustrated Ly P Par 4622 (B.c. 153) (= Witkowski*, p. 87), περὶ dv ἂν βούληι γράφε, P Grenf I. 30% (B.c. 103) ἐφ} οἷς ἂν οὖν ὑμῶν προσδέωνται, P Oxy IV. 743%% (B.C. 2) ἐν ols ἐὰν σοῦ προσδέηται, °° ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐὰν θέλῃς. For the comparative usage of ὃς ἄν and ὃς ἐάν, see Thackeray Gr. i. p. 68, cited s.v. ἄν.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὅς (hos, hē) — which.

ὅς, ἥ, ὅ,

genitive οὗ, ἧς, οὗ, etc.; dative plural οἷς, αἷς, οἷς, etc.: Epic dialect forms, genitive ὅου (probably replacing Οο) in the phrases ὅου κλέος οὔ ποτ᾽ ὀλεῖται [Refs 8th c.BC+]; feminine ἕης [Refs 8th c.BC+]; elsewhere only ἧς [Refs]; dative plural οἷς, οἷσι, ᾗς, ᾗσι (never αἷς or αἷσι in [Refs 8th c.BC+] — _pronoun_ used,

__A as demonstrative by the side of οὗτος, ὅδε, and the Article ὁ, ἡ, τό: in post-Homeric Gr. this use survived only in a few special phrases.

__B as a Relat. by the side of the Article ὅ, ἥ, τό (see. ὁ, ἡ, τό, c):—this demonstrative and Relat. pronoun must not be confounded with the Possess. ὅς, ἥ, ὅν. (With Gr. Relat. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ cf. Sanskrit Relat. yas, yā, yad, Lithuanian jis, ji (he, she), Oslav. i, ja, je (he, she…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὅς ἥ ὅ

hos

he hay, and neuter

ho ho

probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article 3588); the

relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what,

that:--one, (an-, the) other, some, that, what, which, who(-m, -se),

etc. See also 3757.

see GREEK for 3588

see GREEK for 3757

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὅς, ἥ, ὅ

Rel.pr.

who, which, what, that

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὅς hos 1x

who, which, what, that, Mt. 1:16, 23, 25; in NT interrog. ἐφ’ ὅ, wherefore, why, Mt. 26:50; in NT ὅς μὲν ... ὅς δέ, for ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, Mt. 21:35; 2 Cor. 2:16

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

R-NPN Part of Speech: Relative pronoun Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
25%which
which25% · 356×whom20% · 291×who17% · 238×that14% · 199×what8% · 117×whatever2% · 30×whose2% · 29×other renderings10% · 145×other renderings2% · 25×

1,430 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 60 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
object40%subject29%adverbial26%indirect object3%predicate3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 1,407 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
ἡμέραa dayαὐτόςἵναin order that, s
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςἔχωI have, hold, poυἱόςa son, descenden
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakἀπόλλυμιI destroy, lose,δοῦλος (II)
διά
ἐκεῖνοςΧριστόςanointed, the Meαὐτός
εἰς
καίand, even, also,ἐγώοἰκίαa house, househo
ὅςwhich1407×
what comes after →
εἰμίI am, exist
Article theμεθερμηνεύωI translate, intκαίand, even, also,
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existἔξεστι(ν)it is permitted,γινώσκωI come to know,
Article the
θεόςGod, a godυἱόςa son, descendenκύριοςlord, Lord, mast
καίand, even, also, nam
σύποιέωI do, makeαὐτός
δέbut, on the other ha
ἄνDisjἑξήκονταIndecτριάκονταIndec

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

Concordanceὅς · 1,407× in the New Testament
Acts Luke John Matthew Romans Mark Hebrews Revelation 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Colossians Ephesians

22 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 Ignatius of Antioch Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 33c. AD 40

ἵν’ οὖν μὴ αἰεὶ συμφερόμεναι στασιάζωσι καὶ πόλεμος ἀντ’ εἰρήνης ἐπικρατῇ τὴν ἀκοσμίαν ἐν κόσμῳ τιθείς, οὐ μόνον ἐχώρισε φῶς καὶ σκότος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅρους ἐν μέσοις ἔθετο διαστήμασιν, οἷς ἀνεῖρξε τῶν ἄκρων ἑκάτερον·

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

πῶς τὸ Σοδομιτῶν ἔθνος θεὸς κατεστρέψατο χολωθεὶς αὐτοῖς ἐφ' οἷς ἡμάρτανον.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 4.8c. AD 100

Μωϋσῆ Μωϋσῆ, κατάβηθι τὸ τάχος, ὅτι ἠνόμησεν ὁ λαός σου, οὓς ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, καὶ συνῆκεν Μωϋσῆς καὶ ἔριψεν τὰς δύο πλάκας ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ: καὶ συνετρίβη αὐτῶν ἡ διαθήκη, ἵνα ἡ τοῦ ἠγαπημένου Ἰησοῦ ἐγκατασφραγισθῇ εἰς τὴν καρδίαν ἡμῶν…

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 2nd c. BC
P.Grenf. 1 32Pelusion103 BC

θεοῖς. καλῶς ποιήσεις διαλύσας Ἁρκοννῆσιν καὶ Ψενανοῦπιν καὶ … … ελθεῖν ἐπὶ προ … ους καὶ γραψάτωσαν ἡμῖν ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐσπούδασας διὰ τὰς ἡμῶν παρακλήσεις καὶ ση

P.Adl. 15Pathyris (?)101 BC

ἐδάνεισεν Ὧρος Ὥρου Ὥρωι Νεχούτου ὡς ἐτῶν ν μέσος μελίχρως ὑποκλαστὸς ἀναφάλακρος μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν οὖς ἀριστερὸν τετρημένον πυροῦ ἀρτάβας τεσσαράκοντα ἓξ κριθῆς ἑξήκοντα ἐννέα , ἴσους ἀτόκους, ὧν ἀπόδοσιν

P.Adl. 17Krokodilopolis (Pathyrites)100 BC

τῆς ἐπιγονῆς τῶν ἐκ Παθύρεως ὡς ἐτῶν ν μέσος μελίχρως τετανὸς ἀναφάλακρος μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν οὖς ἀριστερὸν τετρημένον χαλκοῦ ταλάντων πέντε . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
ἐπερίσσευσανperisseuō exceeded G4052 Verb · aorist · active · indicative · third person · singular
39× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
rarer in John than elsewhere in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To exceed or superabound means to have more than enough of something. In the Bible, it is used to describe God's abundant love and provision, as seen in Matthew 14:20 and Romans 5:15. It can also mean to cause someone to have more than enough.
Amplified meaning
remaining, exceeding
Tyndale gloss
to exceed
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

περισσεύω (perisseuō) means to be over and above, to abound, or to exceed. It is used in various contexts in the New Testament, such as having an abundance of resources or spiritual gifts. The word can also imply being superior or excelling in something. Notably, it appears in verses like Matthew 14:20 and 2 Corinthians 9:8. The lexicons indicate a range of meanings from physical abundance to spiritual excellence.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

περισσεύω

(< περισσός),

[in LXX: I Ki 2:33 (מַרְבִּית), I Ki 2:36, Ec 3:19 (יתר ni., יוׄתֵר), To 4:16, Si 10:27 11:12 19:24, 30:38 (33:29), I Mac 3:30*;]

Prop., intrans.,

of things, to be over and above the number (Hes.), hence,

to be or remain over: Mt 14:20 15:37, Lk 9:17, Jo 6:12, 13;

to abound, be in abundance: Mk 12:44, Lk 12:15 21:4, Ac 16:5, Ro 3:7 5:15, II Co 1:5 8:2 9:12, Phl 1:26.

Of persons,

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

περισσεύω ; impf. ἐπερίσσευον (Acts xvi. 5); fut. inf. περισσεύσειν (Phil. iv. 12 Rec.'*); 1 aor. ἐπερίσσευσα; Pass., pres. περισσεύομαι (Lk. xv. 17, see below); 1 fut. 3 pers. sing. περισσευθήσεται; (περισσός, q- V-) 5 1. intrans. and prop. to exceed a fixed number or measure ; to be over and above a certain number or measure: μύριοί εἰσιν ἀριθμὸν ... εἷς δὲ περισσεύει, Hes. fr. 14, 4 [elxix. (187), ed. Gottling]; hence a. ἰο be over, to remain: Jn. vi. 12; τὸ περισσεῦον τῶν κλασμάτων, 1. q. τὰ περισσεύοντα κλάσματα, Mt. xiv. 20; xv. 37; περισσεύει μοί τι, Jn. vi.13 (Tob. iv. 16) ; τὸ περισσεῦσάν τινι, what remained over to one, Lk. ix. 17. b. to exist or be at hand in abundance: τινί, Lk. xii. 15; τὸ περισσεῦόν τινι, one’s abundance, wealth, [(R. V. superfluity) ; opp. to ὑστέonots], Mk. xii. 44; opp. to ὑστέρημα, Lk. xxi. 4; to be Ὁ περισσός great (abundant), 2 Co. ἰ. δὴ ; ix.12…

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

περισσεύω, with the meaning ‘‘remain over,” as often in the NT (Mt 15%’, a/.), occurs in Sy// 306 (= 3672)9 (B.c. 162-0) εἰ δέ τι περισσεύοι ἀπὸ τῶν τόκων, and 10. %2501i 3 (B.C. 338-7) τῶν] σκευῶν TOL περισσευσάντω[ν σταδίου. The common Pauline sense ‘‘ have abundance” survives in MGr περισσεύω.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

περισσεύω (perisseuō) — to exceed.

περισσ-εύω,

Attic dialect περιττεύω, imperfect ἐπερίσσευον (περιέσσευον is condemned by [Refs 2nd c.AD+], (περισσός) to be over and above the number, μύριοί εἰσιν ἀριθμόν.., εἷς δὲ π. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; περιττεύσουσιν ἡμῶν οἱ πολέμιοι the enemy will go beyond us, outflank us, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. to be more than enough, remain over, τἀρκοῦντα καὶ περιττεύοντα [Refs]; τὸ π. [ἀργύριον] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ περιττεύουσα τροφή [NT+4th c.BC+]; τοσοῦτον τῷ Περικλεῖ ἐπερίσσευσε, κτλ. such abundance of reason had Pericles for his belief, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

περισσεύω

perisseuo

from 4053; to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be

superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or

excel:--(make, more) abound, (have, have more) abundance (be more)

abundant, be the better, enough and to spare, exceed, excel, increase,

be left, redound, remain (over and above).

see GREEK for 4053

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

περισσεύω

v.

I exceed, am left over

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

περισσεύω perisseuō 39x

to be over and above, to be superfluous, Mt. 14:20; Mk. 12:44; Lk. 21:4; to exist in full quantity, to abound, be abundant, Rom. 5:15; 2 Cor. 1:5; to increase, be augmented, Acts 16:5; to be advanced, be rendered more prominent, Rom. 3:7; of persons, to be abundantly gifted, richly furnished, abound, Lk. 15:17; Rom. 15:13; 1…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

περισσεύω attic -ττεύω fut. σω imperf. ἐπερίσσευον περισσός to be over and above the number, c. gen., περιττεύσουσιν ἡμῶν οἱ πολέμιοι the enemy will go beyond us, outflank us, Xen.

absol. to be more than enough, remain over, id. Xen., etc.; τοσοῦτον τῷ Περικλεῖ ἐπερίσσευε such abundance of reason had Pericles, Thuc.

in bad sense, to be superfluous, Soph.

of persons, to abound in a thing, c. dat., NTest.:—also c. gen., π. ἄρτων to have more than enough of bread, id. NTest.

to be superior, have the advantage, id. NTest.; π. μᾶλλον to abound more and more, id. NTest.

Causal, to make to abound, id. NTest.:—Pass. to be made to abound, id. NTest.

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

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

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
15%abound
abound15% · 6×abounding13% · 5×you may abound8% · 3×abounded5% · 2×abounds5% · 2×may abound5% · 2×remaindering5% · 2×increasing3% · 1×other renderings41% · 16×

39 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 24 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
verb92%object8%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 39 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
αὐτόςδίδωμιI offer, giveπίστιςfaith, belief, t
Article the
αἴρωI raise, lift upἐκκαίand, even, also,
ὅς
κρίθινοςmade of barley
ἵναin order that, so th
ζητέωI seek, search fπεριπατέωI walk, conduct
μᾶλλονmore, rather
πολύςmuch, many, ofteκαίand, even, also,
περισσεύωexceeded39×
what comes after →
Article the
κλάσμαa fragmentδέbut, on the otheβιβρώσκωI eat
εἰς
Article theσύπᾶςall, the whole,
ἐν
Article theἐπίγνωσιςknowledge, disceΧριστόςanointed, the Me
αὐτός
βάλλωI cast, throw, rκλάσμαa fragment
σύ
Article theἐν

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

Concordanceπερισσεύω · 39× in the New Testament
2 Corinthians Matthew Philippians Luke 1 Corinthians 1 Thessalonians Romans John Acts Colossians Ephesians Mark
Across the New Testament12 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas
JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 3.229c. AD 75–95

τὸ δὲ στῆθος καὶ τὴν κνήμην τὴν δεξιὰν τοῖς ἱερεῦσι παρασχόντες ἐπὶ δύο ἡμέρας εὐωχοῦνται τοῖς καταλειπομένοις τῶν κρεῶν, ἃ δʼ ἂν περισσεύσῃ κατακαίουσι.

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 26.8.7c. AD 140

οἱ δὲ περισσεύοντες λαμπροὶ καὶ ὑγιεῖς εὑρέθησαν: καὶ οὗτοι ἡρμόσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν παρθένων εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομήν, ἐξώτεροι δὲ ἐτέθησαν διὰ τὴν ἰσχυρότητα αὐτῶν.

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 4th c. AD
P.Aberd. 69AD 101–AD 200

ὡς ἐμοῦ κρατοῦντός τι ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων σου … θυτα ις αὐτὰ … ἐὰν περισσεύῃ … ἑτέραν πεμπ … … ατ … θω … χρῆσις

O.Claud. 2 289Mons ClaudianusAD 126–AD 175

Ὧρος Πανινοῦτι χαίρειν. ἐὰν περισσεύσῃ σοι χαλκός, πέμψον μοι στατῆρα ἢ δίδραχμον ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔχω ἔλαιον ἵνα ἀγοράσω. ἀσπάζου

P.Flor. 2 242Theadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 250–AD 261

r … … … καὶ ἔλεγεν νῦν … περισσεύειν αὐτῷ … … ε περὶ τὰ μέρη … … ἔχειν ἄλλους … … υ

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
τοῖςho to those G3588 Article · dative · plural · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in John 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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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

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-DPM — Article · dative · plural · masculine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-DPM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Dative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

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
to those19783×
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

They gathered together therefore and filled twelve hand-baskets of fragments from the five loaves <the> barley which exceeded to those having eaten.
βεβρωκόσιν.¶bibrōskō having eaten. G977 Verb · perfect · active · participle · dative · plural · masculine
1× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in John than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To eat, as in John 6:13, where the disciples gather leftover bread after Jesus feeds the crowd.
Amplified meaning
consumed, partaken
Tyndale gloss
to eat
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

βιβρώσκω is a Greek verb meaning 'to eat.' It is derived from a root that suggests consumption and has various forms in ancient texts, including passive uses indicating something is being eaten. The New Testament references it in John 6:13, where it is used in the context of eating.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

βιβρώσκω, poët, and late prose,

[in LXX for אכל;]

to eat: Jo 6:13.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

βιβρώσκω (bibrōskō) — to eat.

βιβρώσκω,

[Refs 2nd c.AD+] · βρώσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]aorist ἔβρωσα (ἀν-) [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; infinitive βρῶξαι (κατα-) Epic. in [Refs]: Epic dialect aorist 2 ἔβρων [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: perfect βέβρωκα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; syncopated. participle βεβρώς, ῶτος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; optative βεβρώθοις, as iffrom perfect βέβρωθα, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, present, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:future βρωθήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect βέβρωμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐβέβρωτο [Refs 5th c.BC+]—In Ionic dialect Prose and [Refs]:—eat, eat up, βεβρωκὼς κακὰ φάρμακ᾽ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν βεβρ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, eat of a thing, [λέων] βεβρωκὼς βοός [NT+8th c.BC+]:—passive, to be eaten, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of teeth, decay, [Refs]; χρήματα δ᾽ αὖτε κακῶς βεβρώοεται will be devoured, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; βεβρωμένοι ἄρτοι mouldy bread, [LXX]; ῥίζα βεβρ.…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

βιβρώσκω

bibrosko

a reduplicated and prolonged form of an obsolete primary verb (perhaps

causative of 1006); to eat:--eat.

see GREEK for 1006

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

βιβρώσκω

v.

I eat

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

βιβρώσκω bibrōskō 1x

to eat, Jn. 6:13*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

βιβρώσκω The Root is ΒΟΡ, v. βορά, Lat. voro. to eat, eat up, βεβρωκὼς κακὰ φάρμακ᾽ Il.: c. gen. to eat of a thing, βεβρωκὼς βοός Od.:—Pass. to be eaten, χρήματα βεβρώσεται will be devoured, id. Od.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-RAP-DPM — Verb · perfect · active · participle · dative · plural · masculine
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

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

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%having eaten
having eaten100% · 1×

1 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.

Concordanceβιβρώσκω · 1× in the New Testament
John
Across the New Testament1 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 29 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.

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