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N1904καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

BSAAndkai having rememberedanamimnēskō <the>ho PeterPetros [remembering, having a memory of it] sayslegō to Him;autos Rabbi,rhabbi [my master, a title of respect] lookide theho fig treesukē thathos, hē You cursedkataraomai [emphatically, as the one who acted, to wish harm or evil upon, the opposite of blessing] has been dried up.xērainō [dried up, to dry or shrivel]

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Listen & take awayMark 11
English ↓ Download MP3 The Berean Standard Bible chapter audio already hosted for the site's Bible section — verse 21 is in this chapter.
Greek ↓ Download MP3 Nestle 1904 — the very text on this page — read by Andy Martin in Erasmian pronunciation.
Say the word Each Greek word carries its transliteration (xērainō) — no per-word recordings of the Greek exist to link to.
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Mark 11:21quick helps
In a sentencePeter recalls Jesus' earlier curse on the fig tree and notes its withered state.
Who is speakingPeter, addressing Jesus as Rabbi.
Where we areAfter witnessing the withered fig tree, Peter remembers the curse Jesus spoke.
The hard wordἀναμνησθεὶς
Take awayThe fig tree's withering confirms Jesus' authority.
5 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Trapp, Ellicott & more — read them › clause subjectἀναμιμνῄσκω verbἀναμιμνῄσκω The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
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Every word here is used elsewhere in the New Testament.

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Deep Study — Mark 11:21

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Context — Jesus Curses the Fig Treegenerated

20As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.
21Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”
22“Have faith in God,” Jesus said to them.
23“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.

Mark 11:21 recounts Peter's reflection on the fig tree that Jesus cursed. Earlier, in Mark 11:14, Jesus pronounced a curse on the tree for not bearing fruit. The next morning, Peter observes that the tree has withered from its roots, prompting him to remember Jesus' words and acknowledge their power. This moment illustrates the authority of Jesus and serves as a reminder of the consequences of unfruitfulness, echoing themes found in other parts of scripture, such as Matthew 21:19.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
1Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
2Zechariah 5:3–4Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
3Matthew 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
41 Corinthians 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 4 references, hung on the phrase they belong to

And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.Proverbs 3:33 Zechariah 5:3–4 Matthew 25:41 1 Corinthians 16:22

The Key Word ἀναμνησθεὶς, anamimnēskōgenerated

The word ἀναμνησθεὶς is a perfect passive participle of ἀναμιμνῄσκω, meaning 'having remembered.' It indicates that Peter is recalling a previous event — the curse on the fig tree — which he now connects to its current state.

The passive form suggests that Peter's memory has been triggered by the sight of the withered tree, emphasizing the importance of remembering Jesus' words and their implications.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

In the Berean Standard Bible, the verse reads: "Peter remembered it and said, 'Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.'" This is echoed in the KJV and ASV, which use similar phrasing.

However, the BBE translates it as, "having a memory of it," which differs from the BSB's more straightforward rendering. The WEB also opts for "remembering," while the YLT uses "having remembered."


Sentence Structuregenerated

The verse contains one main clause governed by the verb λέγει, says. The structure includes a participial phrase, ἀναμνησθεὶς, indicating Peter's state of mind, followed by the direct speech where Peter addresses Jesus and describes the fig tree.

The sentence structure highlights Peter's reflection and response to the event, linking his memory of Jesus' curse to the observable outcome of the fig tree's withering.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

συκῆfig tree — appears in the Septuagint, where it translates the Hebrew word תְּאֵנָה (H8384). This connection to the Old Testament enriches the understanding of the fig tree's symbolism in relation to fruitfulness and judgment.

The term καταράομαι, meaning 'to curse,' does not have a direct equivalent in the Septuagint but reflects the broader biblical theme of divine judgment on unfruitfulness.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

Mark 11:21 tells us that Peter saw the fig tree that Jesus had cursed and noticed it had withered. This moment emphasizes the power of Jesus' words and serves as a reminder of the consequences of not bearing fruit.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What does Peter mean when he says, 'the fig tree You cursed has withered'?

Peter is acknowledging that Jesus' curse on the fig tree has resulted in its withering, demonstrating the authority of Jesus' words.

Why is the fig tree significant in this passage?

The fig tree symbolizes unfruitfulness, and its withering serves as a warning about the consequences of not producing good fruit in one's life.

How does this event connect to broader biblical themes?

This event reflects themes of judgment and the importance of bearing fruit, which are prevalent throughout scripture, including parables told by Jesus.

What can we learn from Peter's reaction?

Peter's reaction teaches us to remember and reflect on Jesus' teachings and the power of His words in our lives.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. How can I be more mindful of the teachings of Jesus in my daily life?
  2. In what areas of my life do I need to bear more fruit?
  3. What does it mean for me to reflect on past lessons from Jesus?
  4. How can I encourage others to remember the words of Jesus and their significance?

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

Cyril of Jerusalem uses this verse to illustrate the importance of abiding in Christ to bear fruit. His teaching emphasizes the necessity of spiritual growth and the consequences of failing to do so.

Cyril of JerusalemCatechetical Lecture 1:4 c. 313–386
You are now being joined with the holy vine. If, then, you abide in the vine, you grow into a fruitful branch, but if you do not so abide, you will be burnt in the fire. Let us therefore bring forth worthy fruit.

Cyril argues that just as the fig tree withered, those who do not abide in Christ will face spiritual consequences.

Early Church Fathers on Mark 11 →

Commentators on this verse — 5 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on Mark 11:21 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

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

And Peter, calling to remembrance,.... Not so much the tree, and its spreading leaves, and the greatness of it, and the flourishing condition it was in, the other day, as the imprecation of Christ

Read John Gill on Mark 11 →
Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

Read Robert Jamieson on Mark 11 →
John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. Ver. 21. And Peter calling to remembrance] So the fig tree bare far better fruit now that it was dried, than when it was green and flourishing. Instruunt nos Patres, tum docentes, tum labentes; The saints teach us, as by their instructions, so by their infirmities. (Aug.)

Read John Trapp on Mark 11 →
Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(20-25) And in the morning.—See Notes on Matthew 21:20-22.

Read Charles John Ellicott on Mark 11 →
CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

21. And Peter] who doubtless related the incident with all its attendant circumstances to St Mark.

Read Cambridge on Mark 11 →

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

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

Modern formal

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”

WEBWorld English Bible2000

Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”

NETBNew English Translation2006

Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

RVARevised Version, American1894

And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

And Peter calling to remembrance, saith to him, Master, behold, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is withered.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Then Peter remembred, and said vnto him, Master, beholde, the figge tree which thou cursedst, is withered.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

And Peter, remembering [what Jesus had said], says to him, Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up.

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

and Peter having remembered saith to him, 'Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.'

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

and Peter having remembered says to Him, “Rabbi, behold, the fig tree that You cursed is dried up.”

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

Peter remembered and said, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered away.”

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree, which thou didst curse, is withered away.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

Peter remembered what Jesus had done, and said to him, “Rabbi, look, the fig tree that you cursed has withered.”

BBEBible in Basic English1949

And Peter, having a memory of it, said to him, Master, see, the tree which was cursed by you is dead.

Word by word, the decisions they made

ἀναμνησθεὶςanamimnēskō having remembered G363 3 different renderings
rememberedBSB FBV MSB NETB ULB
rememberingDBY DRA WEB
having rememberedLSV YLT
ΠέτροςPetros Peter G4074 3 different renderings
peterASV BSB FBV GNV KJV LSV MSB NETB NWB RVA ULB YLT
rememberingDBY DRA WEB
having a memory of itBBE
ἴδεide look G2396 3 different renderings
beholdASV DRA KJV LSV NWB RVA
lookBSB FBV MSB NETB ULB WEB
seeBBE DBY
κατηράσωkataraomai You cursed G2672 2 different renderings
you cursedBSB FBV LSV MSB NETB ULB WEB
cursedBBE
ἐξήρανται.¶xērainō has been dried up. G3583 2 different renderings
witheredASV BSB DRA FBV GNV KJV MSB NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB
dried upDBY LSV YLT

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.

clauseκαὶAndclauseadverbialἀναμνησθεὶςhaving rememberednoun phrase · subject-ΠέτροςPeterverbλέγειsaysindirect objectαὐτῷto HimclauseῬαββείRabbiclauseverbἴδεlookclausenoun phrase · subjectthenoun phraseσυκῆfig treeclauseobjectἣνthatverbκατηράσωYou cursedverbἐξήρανταιis dried up

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

Et recordatus Petrus, dixit ei : Rabbi, ecce ficus, cui maledixisti, aruit.

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

ܘܐܬܕܟܪ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܘܐܡܪ ܠܗ ܪܒܝ ܗܐ ܬܬܐ ܗܝ ܕܠܛܬ ܝܒܫܬ

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

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

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

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε συκῆ ἣν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.¶

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

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

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

Word by word, across the editions

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


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

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

Mark 11:21καίAndAndκαίἀναμιμνῄσκωhaving remehaving rememberἀναμιμνῄσκω<the><the>ΠέτροςPeterPeterΠέτροςλέγωsayssaysλέγωαὐτόςto Him;to Him;αὐτόςῥαββίRabbi,Rabbi,ῥαββίιδεlooklookιδεthetheσυκῆfig treefig treeσυκῆὅςthatthatὅςκαταράομαιYou cursedYou cursedκαταράομαιξηραίνωhas been drhas been dried ξηραίνωἀνάPrep. and,Prep. and, apieἀνάσῦκονn.n. a fign.n. a figσῦκονκατάραn.f. a curn.f. a curse, cκατάραξηρόςAdj dry, wAdj dry, witherξηρόςλίθοςn.m. a ston.m. a stoneλίθοςΚηφᾶςn.m. Cephan.m. CephasΚηφᾶςφημίv. I sayv. I sayφημίἀήρn.m. airn.m. airἀήρἑαυτοῦRefl.pr. hRefl.pr. himselἑαυτοῦοἶδαv. I know,v. I know, remeοἶδαArticle thArticle theοὗAdv where,Adv where, whitοὗΠέτροςn.m. Petern.m. PeterΠέτροςὅςRel.pr. whRel.pr. who, whὅςΣίμωνn.m. Simonn.m. SimonΣίμωνἈνδρέαςn.m. Andren.m. AndrewἈνδρέαςἀμήνHebr. veriHebr. verily, tἀμήνδιδάσκαλοςn.m. a tean.m. a teacherδιδάσκαλος
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 Mark 11:21

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.

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
καὶkai And G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Mark 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,

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

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.

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 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

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ἀναμνησθεὶςanamimnēskō having remembered G363 Verb · aorist · passive deponent · participle · nominative · singular · masculine
6× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Mark than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to remind or remember something, like a memory from the past. It appears in 1 Corinthians 4:17 and 2 Timothy 1:6, where Paul reminds others of important things.
Tyndale gloss
to remind
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ἀναμιμνῄσκω is built from the prefix ἀνα- and the root μιμνήσκω, meaning to remind or to remember. It covers the act of reminding someone of something, calling to mind, or recalling memories. In the New Testament, it appears in verses such as 1 Corinthians 4:17 and Mark 11:21. The lexicons agree that it can be used both actively and passively.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἀνα-μιμνήσκω

[in LXX for זכר hi.;]

to remind, call to one's remembrance: c. acc. rei, I Co 4:17; c. inf., II Ti 1:6. Pass., to remember, call to mind: Mk 11:21 14:72, II Co 7:15, He 10:32.†

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

ἀνα-μιμνήσκω ; fut. ἀναμνήσω (fr. the form μνάω) ; Pass., [pres. ἀναμιμνήσκομαι]; 1 aor. ἀνεμνήσθην; [fr. Hom. down]; to call to remembrance, to remind: twa tt one of a thing [W. § 32, 4a.], 1 Co. ἵν. 17; to admonish, τινά foll. by inf., 2 Tim. i. 6. Pass. to recall to one’s own mind, to remember; absol.: Mk. xi. 21. with gen. of the thing, Mk. xiv. 72 Ree. τί, Mk. xiv. 72 LT Tr WH; contextually, to (remember and) weigh well, consider: 2 Co. vii. 15; Heb. x. 32; cf. W. § 30, 10c.; [B. § 132, 14]; Matth. ii. p. 820 sq. Syn. see ἀνάμνησις fin.]

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

ἀναμιμνήσκω. Syll 25635 (ii/B.C.) ἀναμιμ]νησκόμενοι πατρίων. Ρ Grenf I. 14-2 (ii/B.c.—literary) ὀδύνη με ἔχει ὅταν ἀναμνησθῶ ὡς κτὰ.: so also in }™ μαίνομ᾽ ὅταν ἀναμ[νη]σθῶμ᾽ εἰ μονοκοιτήσω --ἰογ the form see Mayser G7. p. 383.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnēskō) — to remind.

ἀναμιμνήσκω,

future ἀναμνήσω, poetry ἀμμνήσω: Aeolic dialect aorist active ὀμναῖσαι[Refs 7th c.BC+]: aorist infinitive passive ὀμνάσθην[Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— remind one of a thing, with double accusative, ταῦτά μ᾽ ἀνέμνησας[Refs 8th c.BC+]: but also with genitive of things, μή μ᾽ ἀναμνήσῃς κακῶν[Refs 7th c.BC+]

2. with accusative person et infinitive, remind one to do, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. with accusative of things only, recall to memory, make mention of, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. followed by conjunction, ἀ. ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]

5. ἀναμιμνῄσκων, ὁ, remembrancer, [LXX]

II. passive, remember, recall to mind, τινός[Refs 5th c.BC+]; less frequently τι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: followed by a relative, ἀναμνησθέντας οἷα ἐπάσχετε[Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἀναμιμνῄσκω

anamimnesko

from 303 and 3403; to remind; (reflexively) to recollect:--call to

mind, (bring to , call to, put in), remember(-brance).

see GREEK for 303

see GREEK for 3403

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἀναμιμνήσκω

v.

I remind, admonish, remember

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἀναμιμνῄσκω anamimnēskō 6x

to remind, cause to remember, 1 Cor. 4:17; to exhort, 2 Tim. 1:6; to call to mind, recollect, remember, Mk. 11:21; 14:72; 2 Cor. 7:15; Heb. 10:32*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἀναμιμνήσκω to remind one of a thing, c. dupl. acc., ταῦτά μ᾽ ἀνέμνησας Od.; c. gen. rei, ἀν. τινά τινος Eur.:—c. acc. pers. et inf. to remind one to do, Pind.

c. acc. rei, to recall to memory, make mention of, Dem.

in Pass. to remember, τινός Hdt., etc.; more rarely τι Ar., Plat.; περί τι Plat.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AOP-NSM — Verb · aorist · passive deponent · participle · nominative · singular · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AOP-NSM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: passive depOnent Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
17%will remind of
will remind of17% · 1×remembering17% · 1×i remind17% · 1×do remember17% · 1×having remembered17% · 1×remembered17% · 1×

6 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
verb83%adverbial17%

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

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
φωνέωI crow, shout, s
σύ
ὅς
εἰμίI am, exist
σύ
αἰτίαa cause, reason, cha
ὅς
ἀναμιμνῄσκωhaving remembered
what comes after →
Article the
ΠέτροςPeterὁδόςa way, road, jouπᾶςall, the whole,
σύ
ἀναζωπυρέωI stir up the fi
δέbut, on the other ha
Article 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

Concordanceἀναμιμνῄσκω · 6× in the New Testament
Mark 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 2 Timothy Hebrews
Across the New Testament5 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 11 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
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Migration of Abraham 205c. AD 40

καλεῖται γὰρ ἐκ λήθης, τὸ δὲ ἰσοδυναμοῦν ἐστι πρᾶγμα ἀναμνήσει.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 11.335c. AD 75–95

ὅθεν ἄλλον μὲν οὐδένα θεασάμενος ἐν τοιαύτῃ στολῇ, τοῦτον δὲ νῦν ἰδὼν καὶ τῆς κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους ἀναμνησθεὶς ὄψεώς τε καὶ παρακελεύσεως, νομίζω θείᾳ πομπῇ τὴν στρατείαν πεποιημένος Δαρεῖον νικήσειν καὶ τὴν Περσῶν καταλύσειν δύναμιν καὶ πάνθʼ ὅσα κατὰ…

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4th c. AD
ZPE 205 (2018), p. 127-142Fundort: Kellis (Oasis MagnaAD 301–AD 400

θεόκριτος προφήτης Ἰερημίας. ἐγὼ τοιγαροῦν εἰς τοσαύτην λήθην ἐμβληθεὶς καὶ τοσαῦτα παθὼν καὶ μόλις ἀναμνησθεὶς ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Θεὸς ἐσταυρωμένος δὲ γεννητὸς ἀγέννητος καὶ μαθὼν ὅτι οὐδεμία γραφὴ

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ho <the> G3588 Article · nominative · singular · masculine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Mark 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-NSM — Article · nominative · singular · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-NSM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Nominative Number: Singular 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

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

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ΠέτροςPetros Peter G4074 Noun · nominative · singular · masculine
156× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Mark as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This is the name Peter, which means a rock or stone. Jesus gave this name to Simon, one of his apostles, in Matthew 16:18. Peter became a key leader in the early Christian church.
Amplified meaning
remembering, having a memory of it
Tyndale gloss
[mother-in-law of Peter]
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word Πέτρος (i.e., *Petros*) means 'rock' or 'stone' and refers specifically to Simon Peter, the Apostle. It is derived from a primary word indicating a piece of rock and is used in the New Testament to denote Peter's identity and role. The entries consistently emphasize its connection to the name Cephas and its metaphorical implications of strength and stability.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

Πέτρος, -ου, ὁ (i.e. a stone, v.s. πέτρα, Κηφᾶς),

Simon Peter, the Apostle: Mt 4:18 10:2, Mk 3:16, Lk 5:8, Jo 1:41, 43, al.

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

Πέτρος, -ov, ὁ, (an appellative prop. name, signifying ‘a stone,’ ‘arock,’ ‘a ledge’ or ‘cliff’; used metaph. of a soul hard and unyielding, and so resembling a rock, Soph. O. R. 334; Eur. Med. 28; Here. fur. 1397; answering to the Chald. Κηφᾶς, q. v., Jn. i. 42 (43)), Peter, the surname of the apostle Simon. He was a native of Bethsaida, a town of Galilee, the son of a fisherman (see *Iwavyns, 3, and "Iwvas, 2), and dwelt with his wife at Capernaum, Mt. viii. 14; ΜΚ. 1. 30; Lk. iv. 38, ef. 1 Co. ix. 5. He had a brother Andrew, with whom he followed the occupation of a fisherman, Mt. iv. 18; Mk. i. 16; Lk. vy. 3. Both were received by Jesus as his companions, Mt. iv. 19; Mk. 1. 17; Lk. v. 10; Jn. i. 40-42 (41-43); and Simon, whose pre-eminent courage and firmness he discerned and especially relied on for the future establishment of the kingdom of God, he honored with the name of Peter…

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

Πέτρος. For the occurrence of the name Peter, both in Greek and Latin, among the inscrr. in the first-century catacomb of Priscilla at Rome, see Edmundson /he Church in Rome, p- 52. The name is found in such early Christian papyrus letters as P land 11° (iii/A.D.) τῷ κυρίῳ pov ἀδελφῷ Πέτρῳ, PST III. 208? (iii/iv A.D.) χαῖρε ἐν K(upt)o, ἀγαπητὲ [ἄδ]ελφε Πέτρε. :

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

Πέτρος (Petros) — Peter.

πέτρος, ὁ

(in later Poets ἡ, [Refs 3rd c.BC+], stone (distinguished from πέτρα, which see); in [Refs 8th c.BC+], used by warriors, λάζετο πέτρον μάρμαρον ὀκριόεντα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον ἐκτρίβων, to produce fire, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a boulder forming a landmark, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

2. proverbial, πάντα κινῆσαι πέτρον 'leave no stone unturned', [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of imperturbability, καὶ γὰρ ἂν πέτρου φύσιν σύ γ᾽ ὀργάνειας [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. a kind of reed, [Refs] —The usual Prose word is λίθος.

[unnamed] (Petros) — [wife of Peter].

πέτρος, ὁ

(in later Poets ἡ, [Refs 3rd c.BC+], stone (distinguished from πέτρα, which see); in [Refs 8th c.BC+], used by warriors, λάζετο πέτρον μάρμαρον…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

∏έτρος

Petros

apparently a primary word; a (piece of) rock (larger than 3037); as a

name, Petrus, an apostle:--Peter, rock. Compare 2786.

see GREEK for 3037

see GREEK for 2786

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

Πέτρος, ου, ὁ

n.m.

Peter

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Πέτρος Petros 156x

a stone; in NT the Greek rendering of the surname Cephas, given to the Apostle Simon, and having, therefore, the same sense as πέτρα, Peter, Mt. 4:18; 8:14

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-NSM — Noun · nominative · singular · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-NSM Part of Speech: Noun Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Easton's Bible Dictionary

Peter

Originally called Simon (=Simeon ,i.e., “hearing”), a very common Jewish name in the New Testament. He was the son of Jona (Matt. 16:17). His mother is nowhere named in Scripture. He had a younger brother called Andrew, who first brought him to Jesus (John 1:40-42). His native town was Bethsaida, on the western coast of the Sea of Galilee, to which also Philip belonged. Here he was brought up by the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and was trained to the occupation of a fisher. His father had probably died while he was still young, and he and his brother were brought up under the care of Zebedee and his wife Salome (Matt. 27:56; Mark 15:40; 16:1). There the four youths…

Smith's Bible Dictionary

(a rock or stone). The original name of this disciple was Simon, i.e. "hearer." He was the son of a man named Jonas, (Matthew 16:17; John 1:42; 21:16) and was brought up in his father’s occupation, that of a fisherman. He and his brother Andrew were partners of John end James, the sons of Zebedee, who had hired servants. Peter did not live, as a mere laboring man, in a hut by the seaside, but first at Bethsaida, and afterward in a house at Capernaum belonging to himself or his mother-in-law, which must have been rather a large one, since he received in it not only our Lord and his fellow disciples, but multitudes who were attracted by the miracles and preaching of Jesus. Peter was probably between thirty and forty pears of age at the date of his call. That call was preceded by a…

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

This name in Greek signifies a rock, as does also the name Cephas in Syriac. Peter was one of the twelve apostles, and was also called Simon, Mt 16:17, and Simeon, Ac 15:14. He was of Bethsaida, and was the son of Jonas, a fisherman, which occupation he also followed. After his marriage he resided at Capernaum, Mt 8:14 Lu 4:38, though called at a later period to labor else where as an apostle, and it would seem often accompanied in his journeys by his wife, 1Co 9:5. When first introduced to Jesus by his brother Andrew, he received from Him the name of Peter, Joh 1:42

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

a rock or stone

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
99%peter
peter99% · 158×other renderings1% · 1×

159 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
subject67%object12%indirect object7%predicate6%adverbial5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 156 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
δέbut, on the otheλέγωI say, speakαὐτός
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theἀτενίζωI direct my gazeλέγωI say, speak
ΣίμωνSimon
αὐτόςδέbut, on the otheArticle the
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakπρός
ἀνίστημιI raise up, set up,
οὗτοςαὐτόςἐγώ
ΠέτροςPeter156×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theἸωάννηςJohnἈνδρέαςAndrew
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theκύριοςlord, Lord, mast
Article the
ῥῆμαa thing spokenλόγοςa word, speech, παιδίσκηa female slave,
κύριοςlord, Lord, master,
πρόςμήNegποῦIrg
δέbut, on the other ha
ἀποκρίνομαιI answer, replyπρόςκαίand, even, also,

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

ConcordanceΠέτρος · 156× in the New Testament
Acts John Matthew Mark Luke Galatians 1 Peter 2 Peter

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament8 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch Josephus
JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 7.142c. AD 75–95

τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ἀκούσαντος παρὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων ταῦτα καὶ δυσφοροῦντος φάσκοντος ἁμαρτεῖν αὐτοὺς τῷ τείχει προσβαλόντας, δέον ὑπονόμοις καὶ μηχανήμασιν ἑλεῖν πειρᾶσθαι τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἔχοντας παράδειγμα τὸν Γεδεῶνος υἱὸν Ἀβιμέλεχον, ὃς ἐπεὶ τὸν ἐν…

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 5.4c. AD 96

Πέτρον, ὅς διὰ ζῆλον ἄδικον οὐχ ἕνα οὐδὲ δύο, ἀλλὰ πλείονας ὑπήνεγκεν πόνους καὶ οὕτω μαρτυρήσας ἐπορεύθη εἰς τὸν ὀφειλόμενον τόπον τῆς δόξης.

Ignatius of AntiochThe Letters of Ignatius 4.4.3c. AD 110

οὐχ ὡς Πέτρος καὶ Παῦλος διατάσσομαι ὑμῖν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 7th c. AD 5th c. AD 4th c. AD 8th c. AD
ÉdP 3 (1936), p. 32- no. 15Karanis (Arsinoites)AD 297

ἡμῶν Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ε καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ β. Αὐρήλιοι Πωλίων Πέτρου μητρὸς Α … … ε … ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Φανοῦ ὡς ἐτῶν λ οὐλὴ μετώπῳ

P.Lond. 2 p. 316 no. 251Alexandria bzw. Philadelphia (Arsinoites)AD 337–AD 350

Πέτρον … τὸν Πτολεμαῖον καὶ ὁπότερον αὐτῶν τῶν δύο ἐγγύων ἀλλήλων ἀποστήσειν καὶ ἐκδικήσειν παραχρῆμα

P.Lond. 2 p. 274-275 no. 242Hermopolis (Arsinoites)AD 346

Παῦλον τὸν σταρτιώτην τῶν ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν φροντίδα, καὶ ὑπέβαλεν τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ κακοπραγμόνας Πέτρον υἱὸν Σαραπίωνος καὶ τὸν τούτου ἀδελφὸν Μέλαν στρατιώτην καὶ Ἀπίωνα υἱὸν Ὡρίωνος εἰρηνάρχου ἀπὸ

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
λέγειlegō says G3004 Verb · present · active · indicative · third person · singular
2,255× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Mark as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to say or speak, and it is used by Jesus and others in the New Testament to share teachings and tell stories. It appears in Matthew 9:34 and John 1:29.
Tyndale gloss
to say
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

λέγω (legō) is a primary Greek verb meaning 'to say' or 'to speak.' It encompasses a range of uses, including expressing thoughts, making declarations, and narrating events. The New Testament frequently employs it in direct speech and as a way to convey meaning, such as in Matthew 27:11. Abbott-Smith notes its distinction from similar verbs like λαλέω.

Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament — λαλέω, λέγω, λαλιά, λόγος from a scan

In dealing with synonyms of the N. T. we plainly need not concern ourselves with such earlier, or even contemporary, uses of the words which we are discriminating, as lie altogether outside of the N. T. sphere, when these uses do not illustrate, and have not affected, their Scriptural employment. It follows from this that all those contemptuous uses of λαλεῖν as to talk at random, as one ἀθυρόστομος, or with no door to his lips, might do; of λαλιά, as chatter («Kpacia λόγου ἄλογος, Plato, Defin. 416)—for I cannot believe that we are to find this at John iv. 42—may be dismissed and set aside. The antithesis in the line of Eupolis (Meineke, /ragm. Com. Gr. p. 174), Λαλεῖν ἄριστος, ἀδυνατώτατος λέγειν, does little or nothing to illustrate the matter in hand. The distinction which indeed exists between the words may in this way be made clear. There are two leading aspects under which speech…

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Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

λέγω,

[in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, Ge 22:16, al.;]

in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount.

In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absol., Ac 13:15 24:10; seq. orat. dir., Mt 9:34, Mk 3:11, Jo 1:29, al.; seq. ὅτι recit., Mk 3:21, Lk 1:24, Jo 6:14, al.; acc. et. inf., Lk 11:18, Jo 12:29, al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Mt 11:17, al.; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman…

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

λέγω (in the N. T. only the pres. and impf. act. and pres. pass. are in use; 3 pers. plur. impf. ἔλεγαν, Jn. xi. 56 Tdf. [ef. ἔχω, init.]): I. in its earliest use in Hom. to lay (like Lat. lego, Germ. legen; οἵ. J. G. Miiller in Theol. Stud. u. Krit. for 1835, p. 127 sqq.; Curtius § 538) ; to cause to lie down, put to sleep; 1. to collect, gather; to pick out. 2. lo lay with, count with; to enumerate, recount, narrate, describe; [οἷ. Eng. tale, Germ. ztihlen). II. to put word to word in speaking, join words together, i. e. to say (how it differs fr. λαλεῖν, see under that word ad init.) ; once so by Hom. in 1]. 2, 222 [yet ef. Schmidt, Syn. i. ch. 1, §§ 20; 48, 2; L. and S. s. vy. B. II. 2]; often in Pind., and by far the most com. use in Attic; Sept. more than thirteen hundred times for 728; often also for D8} (saying, dictum); very rarely for 1393; and soin N.T. 1. univ. a. absol. to…

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

λέγω. (1). “‘I say, speak”: see e.g. P Par 47 {= Selections, Ῥ- 21 ff.), ¢. B.C. 153, which is addressed on the verso—mpds τοὺς τὴν ἀλήθεαν λέγοντες (—-as), P Fay 12378 (c. A.D. 100) γνώσομαι yap εἰ ἀληθῶς λέγι, “1 will find out whether he is speaking the truth,” P Ryl 11. 7615 (late li/A.D.) ἃ καὶ ἀναγνώσομαι λεγομένου τοῦ [π]ράγματος, “1 will read them when the case is argued” (Edd.), P Flor II. 1327 (A.D. 257) ἔλεζξ]αν πεποιηκέναι ταῦτα ἀγνοίᾳ, ‘they said they had done this in ignorance,” and the magical P Par 5741238 (iii/A.D.) (= Selectzons, p. 113) λόγος λεγόμενος ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, ‘ invocation to be uttered over the head (of the possessed one).”” For the phrase τὸ αὐτὸ λέγειν, cf. I Cor 11°, Weiss (Meyer 15 ad 1) cites a sepulchral inscr. of husband and wife from Rhodes, /J/Ae 149 (ii/B.c.) ταὐτὰ λέγοντες ταὐτὰ φρονοῦντες ἤλθομεν τὰν ἀμέτρητον ὁδὸν εἰς ᾿Αἴδαν. (2). Closely…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

λέγω (legō) — to say.

λέγω,

__B pick up, etc.: tenses for signification 1 and 11, future λέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔλεξα [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, future in passive sense λέξομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐλεξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἐλέγμην [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐλέχθην [Refs 8th c.BC+]-; post-[Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect εἴλοχα (κατ-, συν-), passive εἴλεγμαι, in these senses rarely λέλεγμαι (see. the compounds); also future λεγήσομαι (συλ-): aorist 2 ἐλέγην (κατ-, συν-):—gather, pick up, ὀστέα.. λέγωμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἱμασιάς τε λέγων picking out stones for building walls, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, gather for oneself, ἐπὶ δὲ ξύλα πολλὰ λέγεσθε [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

λέγω

lego

a primary verb; properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate

(in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and

5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech

respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely, and 2980

means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean:--ask,

bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on),

shew, speak, tell, utter.

see GREEK for 2036

see GREEK for 5346

see GREEK for 4483

see GREEK for 2980

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

λέγω

v.

I say, speak

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

λέγω legō 2x

to lay, to arrange, to gather; to say, Mt. 1:20; to speak, make an address or speech, Acts 26:1; to say mentally, in thought, Mt. 3:9; Lk. 3:8; to say in written language, Mk. 15:28; Lk. 1:63; Jn. 19:37; to say, as distinguished from acting, Mt. 23:3; to mention, speak of, Mk. 14:71; Lk. 9:31; Read the full entry →

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PAI-3S — Verb · present · active · indicative · third person · singular
present active indicative — an action in progress.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

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

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
35%saying
saying35% · 480×says13% · 175×i say12% · 164×he says9% · 122×say5% · 70×he was saying3% · 42×they say2% · 31×other renderings17% · 225×other renderings4% · 48×

1,357 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 107 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
verb98%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 2,255 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
αὐτόςἸησοῦςJesusἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
αὐτός
πρόςμαθητήςa learner, disciἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theοὗτοςἐγώ
ἸησοῦςJesus
Article theδέbut, on the otheγόνυa knee
ἀμήνHebr
ἀμήνHebrαὐτόςλέγωI say, speak
λέγωsays2255×
what comes after →
αὐτός
Article theτίςIrgκύριοςlord, Lord, mast
Article the
μαθητήςa learner, disciἸησοῦςJesusΠέτροςPeter
σύ
ὅτιthat, since, becοὐNegἐάνCond
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theπρόςαὐτός
ὅτιthat, since, because
Article theοὗτοςσύ

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

Concordanceλέγω · 2,255× in the New Testament
Luke John Matthew Mark Acts Revelation Hebrews Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians James Galatians

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

Across the New Testament25 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 1,290 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 The Epistle of Barnabas Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 5c. AD 40

οὐ μὴν διὰ τοῦθ’ ἡσυχαστέον, ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα τοῦ θεοφιλοῦς καὶ ὑπὲρ δύναμιν ἐπιτολμητέον λέγειν, οἴκοθεν μὲν οὐδέν, ὀλίγα δ’ ἀντὶ πολλῶν, ἐφ’ ἃ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην διάνοιαν φθάνειν εἰκὸς ἔρωτι καὶ πόθῳ σοφίας κατεσχημένην.

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

ὅπως Ἅβραμος ὁ πρόγονος ἡμῶν ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῆς Χαλδαίων γῆς κατέσχε τὴν τότε μὲν Χαναναίαν νῦν δὲ Ἰουδαίαν λεγομένην.

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

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

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 1st c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Grenf. 2 33Pathyris101 BC

τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ μέρος ἧς ἐμισθώσατο σὺν Πακοίβι Σχώτου καὶ τοῖς μετόχοις γῆς σιτοφόρου λεγομένης Νεχθαραῦτι θεοῦ μεγάλου παρὰ τῶν ἱερέων ἐτῶν δέκα εἰς τὰ ἐνλιπόντα αὐτῷ ἑτέρων ,

P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

ἑτερᾶς· νότου γῆ Τακοίμιος, βορρᾶ γῆ Χενσθώτου, ἀπηλιώτου Ἀείους, λιβὸς περίχωμα, τῆς δʼ ἄλλης λεγομένης Πκρώ· νότου γῆ Σενπελαίας, βορρᾶ γῆ Πανᾶτος ἀπηλιώτου ποταμός, λιβὸς Ἀραμείους, ἢ οἳ ἂν

P.Adl. 16Pathyris100 BC

οἱ Φίβιος τοῦ Πανεχάτου υἱοί, ἀπηλιώτου ὁδὸς βασιλική, λιβὸς γῆ Ψεμμώνθου τοῦ Πανεχάτου, ἄλλης λεγομένης Φαμούνιος νότου γῆ Παθώτου τοῦ Πατοῦτος, βορρᾶ γῆ Πατσεοῦτος τοῦ Φίβιος, ἀπηλιώτου ποταμός, λιβὸς

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
αὐτῷ·autos to Him; G846 Personal pronoun · dative · singular · masculine
5,550× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Mark than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This pronoun refers to a person or thing, like 'he', 'she', or 'it'. It is used in the Bible to emphasize a person or thing, like in John 2:25 where it says 'he himself knew'.
Tyndale gloss
it/s/he
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

αὐτός is a pronoun meaning 'self' or 'the same,' used to emphasize distinction or opposition. It can function as a reflexive pronoun and appears frequently in the New Testament, often in contexts that highlight contrast or identity, such as in Luke 5:37 and John 2:25. The entries indicate that it can also be used in various grammatical constructions, including with articles to denote sameness.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

αὐτός, -ή, -ό,

determinative pron., in late Gk. much more freq. than in cl. (WM, 178 f.; Jannaris, HGG, §1399).

Emphatic (so always in nom. exc. when preceded by the art., v. infr., iii);

self (ipse), expressing opposition, distinction, exclusion, etc., αὐ. ἐκχυθήσεται, Lk 5:37; αὐ. ἐγινώσκεν, Jo 2:25; αὐ. ὑμεῖς, Jo 3:28; καὶ αὐ. ἐγώ, Ro 15:14; αὐ. Ἰησοῦς, Jo 2:24; αὐ. καὶ οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ, Mk 2:25; ὑμεῖς αὐ., Mk 6:31; esp. (as freq in cl.) αὐ. ὁ, Mt 3:4, Mk 6:17, Jo 16:27, I Th 3:11, al.; in late Gk., sometimes…

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αὐτός, -7, -d, pron. (“derived from the particle αὖ with the added force of a demonstrative pronoun. In itself it signifies nothing more than again, applied to what has either been previously mentioned or, when the whole discourse is looked at, must necessarily be .upplied.” Klotz ad Devar. ii. p. 219; [see Vaniéek p. 268]). It is used by the bibl. writ. both of the O. T. and of the N. T. far more frequently than the other pronouns; and in this very frequent and almost inordinate use of it, they deviate greatly from prof. auth.; cf. B. § 127, 9. [On classic usage ef. Hermann, Opusce. i. 308 sqq., of which dissertation a summary is given in his edition of Viger pp- 732-736.] I. self, as used (in all persons, genders, numbers) to distinguish a person or thing from or contrast it with another, or to give him (it) emphatic prominence. ik When used to express Opposition or Distinction, it is…

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αὐτός. The weakening of the old distinction between αὐτὸς 6 and ὁ αὐτός, especially in Luke, is noted in Proleg. p. 91, and paralleled from Hellenistic. We may add (cf. Linleitung p. 145f.) Sy// 8071 (ii/A.D.) αὐταῖς ταῖς ἡμέραις, where Dittenberger remarks ‘‘expectaveris ταῖς αὐταῖς," OG/S 383! (Antiochus of Commagene, i/8.c.) τὴν αὐτήν τε κρίσιν, for which Ditt. desiderates ταύτην τὴν κρίσιν, P Iib I. 30° (B.c. 265) αὐτὸς Ὧρος “the said H.,’’ P Lille I. 238 (B.C, 221) οὗ μ[ισ]θωτὴς Ἡρώδ[ης] ὁ αὐτός “ce méme L.,”’ P Oxy VI. 892% (A.D. 338) τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, 26. VIII. 1105 (A.D. 254) τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφοδογραμματέως “the said a.’’: all these seem to be practically identical, with αὐτός differing little from ἐκεῖνος. The combination αὐτὸ τοῦτο may be illustrated by P Grenf I. 114 (literary, ii/B.c.) “ for this reason ” (Ed.) as in 2 Pet 1°, P Ryl 11. 77°9 (a.p. 192) καὶ αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἀσφαλίσομαι…

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αὐτός (autos) — it/s/he.

αὐτός

(Cretan dialect ἀϝτός [Refs] (also αὐτόν[Refs], reflexive pronoun, self:—in oblique cases used for the personal pronoun, him, her, it:—with Article, ὁ αὐτός, ἡ αὐτή, τὸ αὐτό (also ταὐτόν), etc., the very one, the same.

I. self, myself, thyself, etc., accusative to the person of the Verb: frequently joined with ἐγώ, σύ, etc. (see. below 10),

I.1. one's true self, the soul, not the body, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; reversely, body, not soul, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; oneself, as opposed to others who are less prominent, as king to subject, [Refs]; man to wife and children, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; warrior to horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+], or to weapons, [Refs]; shepherd to herd, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; seamen to ships, [Refs]: generally, whole to parts,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, the Master, as in the [Refs 4th c.BC+]…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

αὐτός

autos

from the particle au (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea

of a baffling wind) (backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used

(alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the

proper personal pronoun) of the other persons:--her, it(-self), one,

the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy-

)self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at,

- by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man),

those, together, very, which. Compare 848.

see GREEK for 109

see GREEK for 1438

see GREEK for 848

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

αὐτός, αὐτή, αὐτό

Pers.pr.

he, she, it, they, them, same

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

αὐτός autos 5x

self, very; alone, Mk. 6:31; 2 Cor. 12:13; of one’s self, of one’s own motion, Jn. 16:27; used also in the oblique cases independently as a personal pron. of the third person; ὁ αὐτός, the same; unchangeable, Heb. 1:12; κατὰ τὸ αὐτό, at the same time, together, Acts 14:1; ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, in one and the same place, Mt. 22:34; at the same time, together, Acts 3:1

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

αὐτός self, Lat. ipse:— in the oblique cases simply for the personal Pron., him, her, it:— with the Artic. ὁ αὐτός, ἡ αὐτή, τὸ αὐτό (or ταὐτόν), etc., the very one, the same.

self, myself, thyself, etc., acc. to the person of the Verb., Hom., etc.:

oneself, one's true self, the soul, not the body, Od.; or opp. to others, as king to subjects, parent to children, man to wife, etc., Hom.; hence absol. for the master, τίς οὗτος;—Αὐτός, i. e. Socrates, Ar.; similarly in neut. αὐτὸ δείξει the result will shew, Eur.

of oneself, of one's own accord, Lat. sponte, Hom., Soph.

by oneself, alone, αὐτός περ ἐών although alone, Il.; αὐτοί ἐσμεν we are by ourselves, i. e. among friends, Ar.

in Plat., τὸ δίκαιον αὐτό right in itself, the idea of right, etc.; cf. αὐτοάνθρωπος.

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

P-DSM Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Case: Dative Number: Singular Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
52%him
him52% · 3025×them25% · 1488×it6% · 323×her4% · 250×other renderings10% · 587×other renderings3% · 188×

5,861 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 92 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
object33%adverbial28%indirect object19%subject18%predicate3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 5,561 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
καίand, even, also,δέbut, on the otheἸησοῦςJesus
πρός
λέγωI say, speakἔρχομαιI come, goδέbut, on the othe
ἐν
Article theαὐτόςεὑρίσκωI find
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakοὗτοςὁράωI see, look upon
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςσύθεόςGod, a god
αὐτόςto Him;5550×
what comes after →
Article the
ἸησοῦςJesusμαθητήςa learner, disciθεόςGod, a god
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theλέγωI say, speakαὐτός
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςτίςIrgκύριοςlord, Lord, mast
ἐν
Article theαὐτόςὅς
εἰς
Article theδικαιοσύνηjustice, justnesἹεροσόλυμαJerusalem

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Concordanceαὐτός · 5,550× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew John Mark Acts Revelation Romans Hebrews 1 John 1 Corinthians Ephesians 2 Corinthians

19 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
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

περὶ τοῦ γένους Ἀδάμου καὶ τῶν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ δέκα γενεῶν τῶν μέχρι τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ.

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’…

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P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

Πακοίβιος ἱερεὺς Σούχου καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ὡς ἐτῶν μ εὐμεγέθης μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῷ μερίδα γῆς σιτοφόρου ἐν τῷ περὶ Παθῦρειν πεδίωι σφραγίδων τεσσάρων , ἣν καὶ αὐτὸς

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 Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

ὡς ἐτῶν νε μέσος ἢ ἐλάσσων μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν ὑπόσκνιφος, καὶ Πετεαρσοῆρις Σχώτου τῶν αὐτῶν ἱερέων ὡς ἐτῶν ν μέσος ἢ ἐλασσων μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν ὑπόσκνιφος, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ῥαββί,rhabbi Rabbi, G4461 Hebrew
15× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Mark than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Rabbi means 'my master' and is a title of respect for Jewish teachers, including Jesus. It is used in the Gospels, such as in Matthew 23:7-8 and John 1:30. The term is a sign of respect and authority.
Amplified meaning
my master, a title of respect
Tyndale gloss
Rabbi
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ῥαββί (transliterated as *rhabbi*) means 'my master' and is derived from Hebrew. It is a respectful title used to address Jewish teachers, commonly translated as 'Rabbi.' The New Testament uses it in various contexts, including references to Jesus and John the Baptist. There are variations in spelling, such as ῥαββεί and ῥαββουνεί, noted in some entries.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

*† ῥαββεί (Rec. -βί, v. WH, App., 155)

(Heb. and Aram. רַבִּי, my master; v. Dalman, Words, 327, 331 ff.),

a title of respectful address to Jewish teachers, Rabbi: Mt 23:7, 8; of John, Jo 3:26; of Christ, Mt 26:25, 49, Mk 9:5 11:21 14:45, Jo 1:30, 50 3:2 4:31 6:25 9:2 11:8; κύριε ῥ., Mk 10:51 (WH, mg., v.s. ῥαββουνεί).†

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ῥαββί, TWH ῥαββεί [cf. B. p.6; WH. App. p. 155; see et,¢], (Hebr. "3", fr. 31 much, great), prop. my great one, my honorable sir; (others incorrectly regard the ‘= as the yodh paragogic); Rabbi, a title with which the Jews were wont to address their teachers (and also to honor them when not addressing them; ef. the French monsieur, monseigneur): Mt. xxiii. 7; translated into Greek by διδάσκαλος, Mt. xxiii. 8 GLT Tr WH; John the Baptist is addressed by this title, Jn. iii. 26; Jesus: both by his disciples, Mt. xxvi. 25, 49; Mk. ix. 5; xi. 21; Jn. i. 38 (39), 49 (50); iv. 31; ix.2; xi.8; and by others, Jn. iii. 2; vi. 25; repeated to indicate earnestness [cf. W. § 65, 5 a.] ῥαββί. ῥαββί, RG in Mt. xxiii. 7 and Mk. xiv. 45; (so "2 "2 for "33 aN in the Targ. on 2K. ii. 12). Cf. Lghifl. Horae Hebr. et Talmud. on Mt. xxiii. 7; Pressel in Herzog ed. 1 xii. p. 471 sq.; [Ginsburg in Alex.’s…

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ῥαββεί. For the accentuation ῥαββέι (ῥα ββουνέι) in Cod. Vaticanus, showing that εἰ was regarded as a diphthong, cf. Nestle in ZNTW vii. (1906), p. 184. See also Dalman Words, pp. 324 ff., 340.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ῥαββί (rhabbi) — Rabbi.

ῥαββί,

O my Master, Hebrew word in [NT]; also ῥαββονί or ῥαββουνί, [NT]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ῥαββι

rhabbi

of Hebrew origin (7227 with pronominal suffix); my master, i.e Rabbi,

as an official title of honor:--Master, Rabbi.

see HEBREW for 07227

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ῥαββί

Hebr.

Rabbi, my master, teacher

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ῥαββί rhabbi 15x

also spelled ῥαββεί, rabbi, my master, teacher, Mt. 23:7, 8; 26:25, 49

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ῥαββί o my master, Hebr. words in NTest.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Hebrew — Hebrew
Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

rab'-i, rab'-i (rabbi; rhabbi, or rhabbei): A term used by the Jews of their religious teachers as a title of respect, from rabh, "great," so "my great one" (compare Latin magister), once of masters of slaves, but later of teachers (Mt 23:7); therefore translated by didaskalos, "teacher" (Mt 23:8; Joh 1:38; compare Joh 1:49). In the King James Version frequently rendered "Master" (Mt 26:25,49; Mr 9:5; 11:21; 14:45; Joh 4:31; 9:2; 11:8). John the Baptist (Joh…

Smith's Bible Dictionary

a title of respect signifying master, teacher , given by the Jews to their doctors and teachers, and often addressed to our Lord. (Matthew 23:7,8; 26:25,49; Mark 9:6; 11:21; 14:45; John 1:38,49; 3:2,26; 4:31; 6:25; 9:2; 11:8) Another form of the title was Rabboni. (John 20:16) The titles were used with different degrees of honor; the lowest being rab, master then rabbi, my master ; next rabban, our master ; and greatest of all, Rabboni, my great master .

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Rabboni, my master

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
88%rabbi
rabbi88% · 15×rabbi?6% · 1×rabbi!6% · 1×

17 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 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
predicate13%adverbial13%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 15 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
λέγωI say, speak
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςμαθητήςa learner, disci
ἄνθρωποςa man, one of the hu
Article the
καλέωI call, invite, name
μήNeg
εἰμίI am, exist
ἐγώ
ῥαββίRabbi,15×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
καταφιλέωI kiss affection
ὅς
λέγωI say, speakεἰμίI am, exist
εἷςone
γάρfor
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτός
καλόςbeautiful, good, wor
εἰμίI am, exist

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Concordanceῥαββί · 15× in the New Testament
John Matthew Mark
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ἴδεide look G2396 Verb · second aorist · active · imperative · second person · singular
35× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
look!
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἴδε (Attic ἰδέ; the "later" accentuation is also found in Hom.; Veitch, 215)

prop., 2 aor. imperat. of ὁράω, q.v.

As interjection, apart from the construction of the sentence, and used where one or many are addressed, see! behold! lo!: Mt 25:20, 22, 25, Mk 2:24 3:34 11:21 13:1, 21 15:4, 35 16:6, Jo 1:29, 36, 48 3:26 5:14 7:26 11:3, 36 12:19 16:29 18:21 19:4, 14, 26, 27, Ga 5:2.†

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ἰδέ [so occasionally Grsb. and Rec. ες e. ¢. Gal. ν. 2; Ro. xi. 22] and (later) ἴδε (ἰδέ ἀττικῶς ὡς τὸ εἰπέ, λαβέ. εὑρέ: ἴδε ἑλληνικῶς, Moeris [p. 193 ed. Pierson]: cf. W. § Θ, 1 4.; [B. 62 (54)]), impv. fr. εἶδον, q. v.; [fr. Hom. down]. In so far as it retains the force of an imperative it is illustrated under εἴδω, I. 1 e. and 3. But in most places in the N. Τὶ it stands out of construction like an interjection, even when many are addressed, [cf. B. 70 (61); and esp. 139 (121 sq.)]; Lat. en, ecce; see! behold! lo! a. at the beginning of sentences: as the utterance of one who wishes that something should not be neglected by another, Mt. xxvi. 65; Mk. ii. 24; xi. 21; xili.1; Jn. v.14; xviii. 21; Ro. ii. 17 Ree.; equiv. to Germ. sieh’ doch [see, pray; yet see], Jn. xi. 86; xvi. 29; xix.4; Gal. v. 2; or of one who brings forward something new and unexpected, Jn. vii. 26; xi. 3; xii. 19…

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ἴδε Ostr. i. p. 3758. One of the wall-scratchings at Thebes, Preisigke 1852, commemorates a certain Ἱπποκράτης ἰατρός, and a dialect inscr. from Delphi, of the middle of ii/B.c., Syil 857", is a deed of sale to Apollo Pythius, by which Dionysius manumits Damon, a slave physician, who has apparently been practising in partnership with his master, to judge from the concluding provision—et δὲ χρείαν ἔχοι Διονύσιος, συνιατρευέτω Δάμων μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἔτη πέντε, receiving board and lodging and clothes. As illustrating Mk 5°° we may cite Pretstgke 1934, an inscr. in the Serapeum at Memphis, recording that Aristullus has set up a votive-offering fearing that the god is not welldisposed towards him—érrel kal ἰατ]ρείαις χρώμενος τοῖς περὶ ναὸν ὀνείροις οἹὐκ ἠδυνάμην ὑγιείας [τυχεῖν παρ᾽ αὐτο]ῦ. For Mt 9 Wendland (,.Χ1Ζ27Ζ 1. ii p. 44) recalls Diogenes in Stobaeus FVorileg. III. p. 46214, ed. Hense…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἴδε (ide) — look!.

ἴδε

__A (Attic dialect ἰδέ Hdn.Gr.1.431), aorist 2 imperative of εἶδον, behold, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; used by Trag. in Lyric poetry, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἴδε

ide

second person singular imperative active of 1492; used as an

interjection to denote surprise; lo!:--behold, lo, see.

see GREEK for 1492

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἴδε

Ij.

See! Lo! Behold! Look!

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἴδε ide 29x

the imperative of εἶδον used as a particle, Lo! Behold! Jn. 16:29; 19:4, 5

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-2AAM-2S — Verb · second aorist · active · imperative · second person · singular
second aorist active imperative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-2AAM-2S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: second Aorist Voice: Active Mood: iMperative Person: second Number: Singular

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

look:

(1) The uses of the simple verb in English Versions of the Bible are nearly all good modern English. In Isa 5:2, however, "He looked that it should bring forth grapes"--"look" is used in the sense of "expect." Compare the King James Version of Sirach 20:14; Ac 28:6, "They looked when he should have swollen" (the Revised Version (British and American) "They expected that he would have swollen"). In 1 Macc 4:54, the King James Version has inserted "look" (omitted in the Revised Version (British and American)) as a simple interjection, without a corresponding word in the Greek

(2) "Look upon" means "fix one's attention on," and is often so used in English Versions of the Bible without further significance (Ec 2:11;

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
93%behold
behold93% · 28×look3% · 1×see3% · 1×

30 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ho the G3588 Article · nominative · singular · feminine
19,783× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Mark 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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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-NSF — Article · nominative · singular · feminine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-NSF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

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

THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.

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

This he calls the preaching of the cross.

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

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

Th' adorning thee with so much art,

Is but a barb'rous skill.

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

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

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

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

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςεἰμίI am, existἐγώ
ἐν
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςArticle the
εἰς
αὐτόςεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inἔρχομαιI come, go
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the otheπρός
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςσύἐγώ
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.

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

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
συκῆsukē fig tree G4808 Noun · nominative · singular · feminine
16× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Mark than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
A fig-tree is a common tree in the Bible, mentioned in Matthew 21:19 and Mark 11:13. Jesus often used it as an example in his teachings. The fig-tree symbolizes fruitfulness and spiritual growth.
Tyndale gloss
fig tree
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

συκῆ (transliterated as sykē) means 'fig-tree' and is derived from the word for fig, σῦκον. It appears in various New Testament passages, including Matthew 21:19-21 and Mark 11:13. The term has a consistent meaning across lexicons, primarily referring to the fig-tree itself.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

συκῆ (contr. fr. συκέα), -ῆς, ἡ

(< σῦκον),

[in LXX for תְּאֵנָה ;]

a fig-tree: Mt 21:19-21 24:32, Mk 11:13, 20, 21 13:28, Lk 13:6, 7 21:29, Jo 1:49, 51, Ja 3:12, Re 6:13.†

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

συκῆ, -ῆς, ἡ, (contr. fr. συκέα), fr. Hom. down, Hebr. MIND, α fig-tree: Mt. xxi. 19-21; xxiv. 32; Mk. xi. 13, 20 sq.; xiii. 28; Lk. xiii. 6 sq.; xxi. 29; Jn. i. 48 (49), 50 (51); das. iii. 12; Rev. vi.13. [Cf. Léw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, ὃ 335. ]

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

συκῆ, ‘*fig-tree”? (Mt 2119, αὐ}: PSI V. 4995 (B.c. 257-6) σπούδασον δὲ kal Kpadas ἀποστεῖλαι τῶν συκῶν. For the adj. σύκινος see P Cairo Zen I. 590331" (B.c. 257) σύκινα Xta, ‘*Chian jars containing figs,” and P Tebt II. 513

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

συκῆ (sukē) — fig tree.

Included with: σῡκέα, ἡ,

only Doric dialect (see. συκία), Epic dialect nominative plural συκέαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect accusative singular συκέην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; elsewhere only in contraction or analogical forms from συκῆ (Epic dialect and Ionic dialect nominative συκῆ [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—fig-tree, Ficus Carica, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; for various kinds, see [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἱερὰ σ. a suburb of Eleusis, where Demeter first produced the fig-tree, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

2. σ. Αἰγυπτία,= κερωνία, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

3. σ. περὶ τὴν Ἴδην, Amelanchier, Amelanchias vulgaris, [Refs]

4. ={χαμαισύκη}, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

5. banyan, Ficus bengalensis, [Refs]

II. ={σῦκον} 1, fig, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. a tar or resin in Aleppo pine, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

συκῆ

suke

from 4810; a fig-tree:--fig tree.

see GREEK for 4810

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

συκῆ, ῆς, ἡ

n.f.

a fig-tree

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

συκῆ sykē 16x

a fig tree, Mt. 21:19

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

συκῆ σῦκον the fig-tree, Lat. ficus (the fruit being σῦκον), Od.

= σῦκον I, a fig, Ar.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Noun-NSF — Noun · nominative · singular · feminine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

N-NSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Nave's Topical Bible

→ In an allegory Jud 9:11

→ Jeremiah's parable of Jer 24:2,3

→ Barren, parable of Lu 13:6-9; 21:29-31

→ FIGURATIVE Mt 24:32; Re 6:13

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
94%fig tree
fig tree94% · 15×fig tree?6% · 1×

16 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%object24%adverbial24%predicate12%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 17 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
ὁράωI see, look uponδέbut, on the otheπαραχρῆμαinstantly, immed
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
καίand, even, also,
παραβολήa parable, compariso
Article the
ἐγώ
ἀδελφόςa brother
ὡςas, like as, how, wh
γῆthe earth, soil,
συκῆfig tree16×
what comes after →
μανθάνωI learn, ascertain
Article the
εἷςone
ἐπί
ποιέωI do, make
ἀλλάbut, except
ἀπό
μακρόθενfrom a distance
ξηραίνωI dry up, parch, rip
ἐκ

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

Concordanceσυκῆ · 16× in the New Testament
Matthew Mark Luke John James Revelation
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 21 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
JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.44c. AD 75–95

φύλλοις οὖν ἑαυτοὺς συκῆς ἐσκέπασαν καὶ ταῦτα πρὸ τῆς αἰδοῦς προβαλόμενοι μᾶλλον ἐδόκουν εὐδαιμονεῖν ὡς ὧν πρότερον ἐσπάνιζον εὑρόντες.

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ἣνhos, hē that G3739 Relative pronoun · accusative · singular · feminine
1,407× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in Mark 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 →

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

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

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-ASF — Relative pronoun · accusative · singular · feminine
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

R-ASF Part of Speech: Relative pronoun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine

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
ὅςthat1407×
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

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
κατηράσωkataraomai You cursed G2672 Verb · aorist · middle deponent · indicative · second person · singular
5× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Mark than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To curse someone means to wish harm or evil upon them, as seen in Mark 11:21 and Luke 6:26. It is the opposite of blessing or speaking well of someone.
Amplified meaning
emphatically, as the one who acted, to wish harm or evil upon, the opposite of blessing
Tyndale gloss
to curse
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word καταράομαι (*kataraomai*) means to curse or call down curses upon someone. It is derived from the root for 'curse' and is used in various contexts, including the New Testament, where it appears in verses like Mark 11:21 and Romans 12:14. The passive form can mean 'accursed,' as seen in Matthew 25:41. Some lexicons note differences in how the word can be used with different grammatical constructions.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κατ-αράομαι, -ώμαι, depon.

(< κατάρα),

[in LXX chiefly for קלל pi.;]

to curse: c. acc., Mk 11:21; opp. to εὐλογέω, Lk 6:28, Ro 12:14, Ja 3:9; pass. pf. ptcp., accursed, under a curse (v. M, Pr., 221): Mt 25:41.†

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

κατ-αράομαι, -ὥμαι; (dep. mid. fr. κατάρα) ; 1 aor. 2 pers. sing. κατηράσω; [pf. pass. ptep. κατηραμένος (see below) J; fr. Hom. down; Sept. mostly for 79) and 178; (0 curse, doom, imprecate evil on: (opp. to εὐλογεῖν) absol. Ro. xii. 14; w. dat. of the obj. (as in the earlier Grk. writ.), Lk. vi. 28 Ree. (Bar. vi. [Ep. Jer. 65] 66; [Joseph. c. Ap. 1, 22, 16]); w. acc. of the obj. (as often in the later Grk. writ., as Plut. Cat. min. 32, 1 var. [B. § 133, 9; W. 222 (208)]), Mt. v. 44 Rec.; Lk. vi. 28 G Ltxt. T Tr WH; Jas. iii. 9; ἃ tree, i.e. to wither it by cursing, Mk. xi. 21 (see Heb. vi. 8 in κατάρα). pf. pass. ptep. κατηραμένος in a pass. sense, accursed (Sap. xii. 11; [2 K. ix. 34]; Plut. Luc. 18; and κεκατηραμ. Deut. xxi. 23; [Sir iii. 16]): Mt. xxv. 41 (also occasionally κεκατάρανται, Num. xxii. 6; xxiv. 9; [but Tdf. ete. -ryp-; see Veitch s. v. apdopuat])." kat-apyéw, -@; fut.…

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

καταράομαι. For κατάρατος cf. OG/S 833 (iv/B.c.) κατάρατον ἔμμεναι καὶ αὖτον καὶ γένος τὸ κήνω, Sy// 479% (iii/B.C.) ἐὰν δέ τις τούτων τι λύηι, κατάρατος ἔστω. See also s.v. ἐπικατάρατος.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καταράομαι (kataraomai) — to curse.

καταρ-άομαι [ᾱρ

Epic dialect, ᾰρ Attic dialect], call down curses upon, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολλὰ κατηρᾶτο he called down many curses, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with infinitive, καταρῶνται δ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι they pray that he may perish, [Refs 6th c.BC+], curse, execrate, [NT+5th c.BC+]passive, aorist κατηράθην [ᾱ] [LXX]: perfect participle κατηραμένος accursed, [NT+1st c.AD+]: also perfect κεκατήραμαι with double reduplicate, [LXX]; participle κεκατηραμένος [LXX]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

καταράομαι

kataraomai

middle voice from 2671; to execrate; by analogy, to doom:--curse.

see GREEK for 2671

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καταράομαι

v.

I curse

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καταράομαι kataraomai 5x

to curse, to wish evil to, imprecate evil upon, Mk. 11:21; Lk. 6:28; Rom. 12:14; Jas. 3:9; in NT pass. to be cursed, Mt. 25:41*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

καταράομαι ionic -αρεόμαι fut. άσομαι ionic ήσομαι Dep.

to call down curses upon, imprecate upon, τί τινι Hom., Hdt.:—c. inf., καταρῶνται ἀπολέσθαι they pray that he may perish, Theogn.:—c. dat. pers. only, to curse, execrate, Hdt., Ar., etc.; later, c. acc. pers., Plut., NTest.

absol. to utter imprecations, Ar.

perf. pass. part. κατ-ηρα_μένος in pass. sense, accursed, id. Ar.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-ADI-2S — Verb · aorist · middle deponent · indicative · second person · singular
aorist middle deponent indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-ADI-2S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: middle Deponent Mood: Indicative Person: second Number: Singular

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
33%cursing
cursing33% · 2×do curse17% · 1×we curse17% · 1×cursed17% · 1×you cursed17% · 1×

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

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 5 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
ἐγώ
ἀπό
ὅς
συκῆa fig-tree
Article the
εὐλογέωI bless
μήNeg
καίand, even, also,
αὐτός
ἐν
καταράομαιYou cursed
what comes after →
εἰς
Article the
ξηραίνωI dry up, parch, rip
σύ
προσεύχομαιI pray, pray for
Article the
ἄνθρωποςa man, one of th

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

Concordanceκαταράομαι · 5× in the New Testament
James Luke Matthew Mark Romans
Across the New Testament5 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 26 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 Clement of Rome Josephus The Didache
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Migration of Abraham 1c. AD 40

καὶ εὐλογήσω τοὺς εὐλογοῦντάς σε, καὶ τοὺς καταρωμένους σε καταράσομαι, καὶ ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς“ (Gen.

JosephusThe Jewish War 1.260c. AD 75–95

εὐθέως δὲ τῶν καταλειφθέντων Πάρθων οἷς προσετέτακτο Φασάηλόν τε καὶ Ὑρκανὸν συνελάμβανον τά τε ἄλλα πρὸς τὴν ἐπιορκίαν καὶ τὸ ἄπιστον αὐτοῖς καταρωμένους.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 10.3c. AD 96

Ἄπελθε ἐκ τῆς γῆς σου καὶ ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου εἰς τὴν γῆν ἣν ἄν σοι δείξω: καὶ ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα καὶ εὐλογήσω σε καὶ μεγαλυνῶ τὸ ὄνομά σου, καὶ ἔσῃ εὐλογημένος: καὶ εὐλογήσω τοὺς εὐλογοῦντάς σε καὶ…

And having remembered <the> Peter says to Him; Rabbi, look the fig tree that You cursed has been dried up.
ἐξήρανται.¶xērainō has been dried up. G3583 Verb · perfect · passive · indicative · third person · singular
15× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in Mark than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means to dry up or wither, like a plant in the sun. Jesus used it in Matthew 13:6 to describe a withered seedling. It also appears in Mark 11:20-21 and Luke 8:6.
Amplified meaning
dried up, to dry or shrivel
Tyndale gloss
to dry
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

ξηραίνω (xērainō) means to dry up or wither, often used for plants, crops, and even parts of the body. It can describe the process of desiccation or the state of being dry. The New Testament uses it in contexts such as withered plants (e.g., Mt 21:19) and the drying up of fluids (e.g., Mk 5:29). There is some variation in how lexicons describe its implications, particularly regarding the nuances of ripening and wasting away.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ξηραίνω

(< ξηρός),

[in LXX chiefly for יָבֵשׁ;]

to dry up, parch, wither. c. acc., τ. χόρτον, Ja 1:11; pass., to become or be dry or withered: of plants, Mt 13:6 21:19, 20, Mk 4:6 11:20, 21, Lk 8:6, Jo 15:6, I Pe 1:24; of ripened crops, Re 14:15; of liquids, Mk 5:29, Re 16:12; of members of the body, to waste away, Mk 3:1 (cf. III Ki 13:4) 9:18.†

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

ξηραίνω: 1 aor. ἐξήρανα (Jas. i. 11); Pass., pres. Enpatνομαι; pi. 3 pers. sing. ἐξήρανται (Mk. xi. 21), ptep. ἐξηpappevos; 1 aor. ἐξηράνθην ; cf. B. 41 (36); (fr. ξηρός, q. v.); fr. Hom. down; Sept. chiefly for wa. and wajn; to make dry, dry up, wither: act., τὸν χόρτον, Jas. i. 11; pass. to become dry, to be dry, be withered [cf. B. 52 (45)] (Sept. for 073.) : of plants, Mt. xiii. 6; xxi. 19 sq.; Mk. iv. 6; xi. 20 sq.; Lk. viii. 6; Jn. xv. 6; [1 Pet. i. 24]; of the ripening of crops, Rev. xiv. 15; of fluids: ἡ πηγή, Mk. v. 29; τὸ ὕδωρ, Rev. xvi. 12, (Gen. viii. 7; Is. xix. 5); of 2 Evpaw members of the body, to waste away, pine away: Mk. ix. 18; ἐξηραμμένη χείρ, a withered hand, Mk. iii. 1, and RG in 8.

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

ξηραίνω. With Mt 2119 ἐξηράνθη παραχρῆμα ἡ συκῆ may be compared the interesting report regarding a persea tree, addressed to the logistes of Oxyrhynchus. of the guild of carpenters who had been commissioned to examine the tree states that he found it—&kapmov οὖσαν πολλςῶ]ν ἐτῶν διόλου ξηραντῖσαν (/. ξηρανθεῖσαν) καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι ἐντε[Ὁ]θεῖν καρ]ποὺ[ς] ἀποδιδόναι, ‘barren for many years, quite dried up and unable to produce any more fruit” (P Oxy 1. 53°%—a.p. 316): cf. P Oxy IX. 1188192123 (A.D. 13), and on the value and associations of the persea tree see Wilcken Archiv i. p. 127. Other exx. of the verb are BGU IV. 10404 (ii/A.D.) τάχα δύνασαι ἀναβιοναῖ Jar (ὃ ἀναβιώσασθαι) τὴν ποτίστραν (‘«watering-place”’), εἰ δὲ μή, ξηραίν[ετ]αι, P Leid Wi (ii/iii a.p.) (ΞΞ Π|. p. 83) ξήρανον ἐν σκιᾷ (of flowers used in magic), and P Flor 11. 1451} (A.D. 266-7) τὰ δὲ τεμνόμενα φυτὰ εὐθέως εἰς ὕδωρ…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ξηραίνω (xērainō) — to dry.

ξηραίνω,

future -ᾰνῶ[Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐξήρἀνα [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future ξηρανθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]middle ξηρᾰνοῦμαι in same sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐξηράνθην [Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἐξήρασμαι [NT+5th c.BC+]; infinitive ἀπ-εξηράνθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle ἐξηρᾱμένος only late, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]: (ξηρός):—parch, dry up, ξηρανεῖ σ᾽ ὁ Βάκχιος E. [prev. cited]; of the sun, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; make costive, τὴν κοιλίην [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be or become dry, parched, ἐξηράνθη πεδίον Il.[same place],[Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be withered, ἐξηράνθη ἡ συκῆ [NT+2nd c.BC+]

2. drain dry, ξηράνας τὴν διώρυχα [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ξηραίνω

xeraino

from 3584; to desiccate; by implication, to shrivel, to mature:--dry

up, pine away, be ripe, wither (away).

see GREEK for 3584

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ξηραίνω

v.

I dry up, parch, ripen

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

χηραίνω xērainō 15x

to dry up, parch, Jas. 1:11; pass. to be parched, Mt. 13:6, et al.; to be ripened as corn, Rev. 14:15; to be withered, to wither, Mk. 11:20; of parts of the body, to be withered, Mk. 3:1, 3; to pine, Mk. 9:18

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ξηραίνω ξηρός to parch up, dry up, Eur., Xen.:—Pass. to become or be dry, parched, Il., etc.

to lay dry, Lat. siccare, Thuc.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-RPI-3S — Verb · perfect · passive · indicative · third person · singular
perfect passive indicative — a past action whose result still stands.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-RPI-3S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: peRfect Voice: Passive Mood: Indicative Person: third Number: Singular

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
33%dried up
dried up33% · 5×withered27% · 4×withers7% · 1×has ripened7% · 1×it withered away7% · 1×withering away7% · 1×has been dried up7% · 1×it withered7% · 1×

15 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 8 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
verb93%second object7%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 15 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
αἰώνan age, a cycle ὀδούςa toothκλῆμαa branch, shoot
ῥίζαa root, that which c
ἔχωI have, hold, po
παραχρῆμαinstantly, immediate
πῶς
ἄνθρωποςa man, one of the hu
ἐκεῖthere, yonder, t
εὐθέωςimmediately, soon
καίand, even, also,
ξηραίνωhas been dried up.15×
what comes after →
Article the
χόρτοςgrass, hayσυκῆa fig-treeπηγήa fountain, spri
καίand, even, also, nam
λέγωI say, speakσυνάγωI gather togethe
παραχρῆμαinstantly, immediate
Article the
ἔχωI have, hold, posses
Article the
ἐκ
ῥίζαa root, that whi

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

Concordanceξηραίνω · 15× in the New Testament
Mark Matthew Revelation 1 Peter James John Luke
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 46 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
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Special Laws 2.153c. AD 40

ὁ δὲ κατὰ τὴν μετοπωρινὴν ἰσημερίαν τῇ τάξει [πρώτῃ] πρῶτος ὢν ἐν ταῖς ἡλιακαῖς περιόδοις οὐ λέγεται παρὰ τῷ νόμῳ πρῶτος, ὅτι κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον συγκεκομισμένων τῶν καρπῶν ἁπάντων τὰ δένδρα φυλλορροεῖ καὶ ὅσα ἀκμάζον τὸ ἔαρ ἤνεγκε πάντα…

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD
BGU 4 1040ArsinoitesAD 101–AD 200

τοὺς σοὺς πάντας καὶ τάχα δύνασαι ἀναβιονα … αι τὴν ποτίστραν, εἰ δὲ μή, ξηραίνεται. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.

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