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N1904οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

BSAthoseho devouringkatesthiō [cheat, take advantage of] theho housesoikia [homes, property] of theho widowschēra [women who have lost their husbands] andkai as a pretextprophasis [pretense, outward appearance] at great lengthmakros praying,proseuchomai [long, distant, to pray, worship] Theseohutos [they, the ones who do this] will receivelambanō [take, accept] more excessiveperissos judgment.krima [judgment, decision against]

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Mark 12:40quick helps
In a sentenceJesus condemns the actions of certain men who exploit widows while pretending to be pious.
Who is speakingJesus, addressing the crowd and His disciples.
Where we areIn the temple, where Jesus observes the behavior of the religious leaders.
The hard wordκατεσθίοντες
Take awayThe warning is clear: deceitful actions will lead to severe consequences.
6 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Trapp, Ellicott & more — read them › clause subject verbκατεσθίω The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
How rare are these words?in the New Testament

Every word here is used elsewhere in the New Testament.

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Deep Study — Mark 12:40

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Context — Condemnation of the Scribesgenerated

39and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
40They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
41As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.
42Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

Mark 12:40 reveals Jesus' critique of the scribes who exploit vulnerable widows while maintaining a facade of piety through long prayers. This passage follows a discussion about the behaviors of religious leaders and their love for status and recognition, as seen in the preceding verses. The contrast between their outward religious practices and their unethical actions highlights the hypocrisy that Jesus condemns.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
1Ezekiel 22:25The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
2Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
3Micah 3:1–4Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
4Matthew 23:14
5Luke 20:47They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

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


The Key Word κατεσθίοντες, katesthiōgenerated

The word κατεσθίω (katesthio) is a present active participle meaning 'devouring.' It is derived from the prefix κατ- and the root ἐσθίω, which means 'to eat' or 'to consume.' This term conveys the idea of completely consuming something, whether literally or metaphorically, such as devouring resources or exploiting others.

In this context, it describes the actions of those who take advantage of widows, indicating a predatory behavior that goes beyond mere negligence. The participial form emphasizes that this is an ongoing action, highlighting the continuous nature of their exploitation.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

The Berean Standard Bible uses the term defraud, which aligns closely with the meaning of κατεσθίοντες. The KJV and ASV opt for devour, emphasizing a more aggressive consumption.

The translations diverge on the rendering of οἰκίας, with the BSB, KJV, and others using houses, while the BBE and NETB choose property, indicating a broader scope of what is taken from the widows.


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb of the verse is κατεσθίοντες, devouring, which governs the actions described in the clause. The structure includes a series of noun phrases and participial phrases that detail the subjects and their actions.

The phrase τὰς χηρῶν οἰκίας serves as the object, indicating what is being devoured. The sentence is complex, with multiple layers of meaning conveyed through the arrangement of phrases.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

κατεσθίω does not have a direct counterpart in the Septuagint, but it relates to the Hebrew word אָכַל (H398), meaning 'to eat.' This connection emphasizes the concept of consuming or taking away, which resonates with the actions described in this verse.

The term οἰκία, rendered as בֵּית (H1004) in the LXX, signifies a house or dwelling, reinforcing the idea of what is being exploited by the scribes.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

Mark 12:40 warns against those who take advantage of widows by defrauding them of their homes while pretending to be devout through long prayers. Jesus states that these men will face greater judgment for their actions.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What does it mean to defraud widows?

To defraud widows means to exploit or cheat them out of their property or resources, taking advantage of their vulnerable situation.

Why does Jesus mention long prayers?

Jesus mentions long prayers to highlight the hypocrisy of those who outwardly appear religious but inwardly engage in wrongdoing, using prayer as a cover for their deceit.

What is the significance of greater condemnation?

Greater condemnation implies that those who knowingly exploit others, especially the vulnerable, will face harsher judgment for their actions.

How does this passage relate to the teachings of Jesus?

This passage reflects Jesus' consistent teaching against hypocrisy and the exploitation of the marginalized, emphasizing the need for genuine faith and compassion.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. In what ways can I ensure that I am not exploiting others in my actions?
  2. How can I practice genuine faith without hypocrisy in my daily life?
  3. What steps can I take to support those who are vulnerable, like widows?
  4. How does this passage challenge my understanding of religious practices?

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

Bede comments on the severity of judgment for those who exploit widows under the guise of piety, drawing from this verse.

BedeOn the Gospel of Mark c. 673–735
Those who devour widows' houses under the pretense of long prayers will receive a harsher judgment. He did not merely say,

Bede emphasizes that those who defraud widows while pretending to be righteous will face a harsher judgment.

Early Church Fathers on Mark 12 →

Commentators on this verse — 6 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on Mark 12:40 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

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

Which devour widows' houses,.... [See comments on Matthew 23:14].

Read John Gill on Mark 12 →
Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

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

40 Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. Ver. 40.

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

(40) Which devour widow’s houses.—Here the word has a special force as coming after the mention of the feasts. They seek the highest places at such banquets, our Lord seems to say, and when there, this is what they feast on. The special charge is not reported by St. Matthew in this connection, but occurs in Matthew 23:14, where see Note. The better MSS., indeed, omit it even there. The relative pronoun gives a wrong idea of the construction. We have really a new sentence. “They that devour . . . these shall receive . . .”

Read Charles John Ellicott on Mark 12 →
CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

40. devour widows’ houses] as guardians and administrators of their property greater damnation] “pei taken longe dom,” Wyclif. The word denotes “judgment,” “punishment.” The verb from which it comes denotes “to judge,” pass sentence, condemn. In 1 Corinthians 11:29, the words rendered damnation, discerning, judged, and condemnation, are all, in the original, parts or derivations of one and the same word; and so Wyclif admirably rendered them into the language of his day by words connected with one and the same English verb; “He that etith and drinkith vnworthili, etith and drinkith doom to him, not wisely demyng the bodi of the Lord … and if we demyden wiseli us silf we schulden not be…

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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which devour widows’ houses - Which devour the families of widows, or the means of supporting their families. This they did under pretence of counseling them in the knowledge of the law and in the management of their estates.

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

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

Modern formal

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

WEBWorld English Bible2000

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

NETBNew English Translation2006

They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

they that devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

RVARevised Version, American1894

they which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Which deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers. These shall receiue the greater damnation.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

who are devouring the widows’ houses, and for a pretense are making long prayers; these will receive more abundant judgment.”

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

They also devour widows' houses, and they pray long prayers for people to see. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

They cheat widows out of what they own, and cover up the kind of people they really are with long-winded prayers. They will receive severe condemnation in the judgment.”

BBEBible in Basic English1949

Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

Word by word, the decisions they made

κατεσθίοντεςkatesthiō devouring G2719 3 different renderings
devourASV DBY DRA KJV NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB
devouringLSV YLT
cheatFBV
οἰκίαςoikia houses G3614 2 different renderings
housesASV BSB DBY DRA GNV KJV LSV MSB NWB RVA ULB WEB YLT
propertyBBE NETB
προφάσειprophasis as a pretext G4392 2 different renderings
pretenseLSV NWB WEB
as a pretextDBY
λήμψονταιlambanō will receive G2983 3 different renderings
receiveASV DBY DRA KJV NWB RVA YLT
will receiveBSB FBV LSV MSB NETB ULB WEB
takeBBE
κρίμα.¶krima judgment. G2917 3 different renderings
condemnationASV BSB FBV MSB RVA ULB WEB
judgmentDBY DRA LSV YLT
punishmentNETB

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.

clauseΚαὶAndclauseprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνinnoun phraseτῇthenoun phraseδιδαχῇteachingαὐτοῦof HimverbἔλεγενHe was sayingclauseverbΒλέπετεBewareprepositional phrase · adverbialἀπὸofnoun phrasenoun phraseτῶνtheγραμματέωνscribesnoun phraseτῶν-clauseclauseverbθελόντωνdesiringclause · objectprepositional phrase · adverbialἐνinστολαῖςrobesverbπεριπατεῖνto walk aboutκαὶandclausenoun phrase · objectnoun phraseἀσπασμοὺςgreetingsprepositional phraseἐνinnoun phraseταῖςtheἀγοραῖςmarketplacesκαὶandnoun phraseπρωτοκαθεδρίαςfirst seatsprepositional phraseἐνinnoun phraseταῖςtheσυναγωγαῖςsynagoguesκαὶandnoun phraseπρωτοκλισίαςfirst placesprepositional phraseἐνatnoun phraseτοῖςtheδείπνοιςfeastsclausenoun phraseοἱthoseclauseclauseverbκατεσθίοντεςdevouringnoun phrase · objectτὰςthenoun phraseοἰκίαςhousesnoun phraseτῶνof theχηρῶνwidowsκαὶandclauseadverbialπροφάσειas a pretextobjectμακρὰat great lengthverbπροσευχόμενοιprayingclausesubjectοὗτοιTheseverbλήμψονταιwill receivenoun phrase · objectπερισσότερονgreaterκρίμαjudgment

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


The earliest translations — Latin and Syriac

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

Latin VulgateAD 382–405

qui devorant domos viduarum sub obtentu prolixæ orationis : hi accipient prolixius judicium.

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

Syriac Peshittaby AD 400

ܗܢܘܢ ܕܐܟܠܝܢ ܒܬܐ ܕܐܪܡܠܬܐ ܒܥܠܬܐ ܕܡܘܪܟܝܢ ܨܠܘܬܗܘܢ ܗܢܘܢ ܢܩܒܠܘܢ ܕܝܢܐ ܝܬܝܪܐ

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

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

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

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

οἱ κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν καὶ προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι, οὗτοι λήμψονται περισσότερον κρίμα.¶

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 12:40thosethoseκατεσθίωdevouringdevouringκατεσθίωthetheοἰκίαhouseshousesοἰκίαof theof theχῆροςwidowswidowsχῆροςκαίandandκαίπρόφασιςas a pretexas a pretextπρόφασιςμακρόςat great leat great lengthμακρόςπροσεύχομαιpraying,praying,προσεύχομαιοὗτοςTheseTheseοὗτοςλαμβάνωwill receivwill receiveλαμβάνωπερισσοτερονmore excessmore excessiveπερισσοτερονκρίμαjudgment.judgment.κρίμακατάPrep. downPrep. down fromκατάοἶκοςn.m. a houn.m. a house, hοἶκοςμῆκοςn.n. lengtn.n. lengthμῆκοςπρόςPrep. to, Prep. to, towarπρόςπερισσόςAdj & Adv.Adj & Adv. abunπερισσόςκρίνωv. I judgev. I judge, decκρίνωχάσμαn.n. a gapn.n. a gap, gulχάσμαπρόPrep. befoPrep. beforeπρόφαίνωv. I shinev. I shine, appφαίνωδέχομαιv. I take,v. I take, receδέχομαιαἱρέωv. I choosv. I choose, prαἱρέωμακρόςAdj long, Adj long, distaμακρόςχῆροςn.f. a widn.f. a widowχῆροςπετεινόςn.n. a birn.n. a birdπετεινόςοἰκίαn.f. a houn.f. a house, hοἰκίαοἰκοδομέωv. I buildv. I build, buiοἰκοδομέωΣίμωνn.m. Simonn.m. SimonΣίμωνὄντωςAdv reallyAdv really, truὄντως
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 12:40

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.

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
οἱho those G3588 Article · nominative · plural · 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-NPM — Article · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-NPM Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

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

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

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

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

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςεἰμίI am, existἐγώ
ἐν
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςArticle the
εἰς
αὐτόςεἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inἔρχομαιI come, go
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakδέbut, on the otheπρός
εἰμίI am, exist
οὗτοςσύἐγώ
those19783×
what comes after →
θεόςGod, a god
Article theκαίand, even, also,ἐγώ
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakἸησοῦςJesusἀποκρίνομαιI answer, reply
ἸησοῦςJesus
λέγωI say, speakκαίand, even, also,Article the
κύριοςlord, Lord, master,
ἐγώἸησοῦςJesusArticle the
πατήρfather, Father, ance
ἐγώσύαὐτός

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

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

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

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

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

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

τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

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

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

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

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

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

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

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

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

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
κατεσθίοντεςkatesthiō devouring G2719 Verb · present · active · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
14× 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 devour means to eat something completely, like a seed or a person's life. Jesus talks about this in Matthew 13:4 and Revelation 12:4. It can also mean to destroy something, like a home in Matthew 23:13.
Amplified meaning
cheat, take advantage of
Tyndale gloss
to devour
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word κατεσθίω (katesthio) is built from the prefix κατ- and the root ἐσθίω, meaning to eat or devour. It encompasses both literal and metaphorical meanings, such as consuming food, squandering resources, or causing harm. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts like devouring seed (Matthew 13:4) and consuming a little book (Revelation 10:9).

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κατ-εσθίω

("perfective" comp. of ἐσθίω, q.v., and cf. M, Pr., 111),

[in LXX chiefly for אכל;]

to eat up, devour: c. acc., of seed, Mt 13:4, Mk 4:4, Lk 8:5; τέκνον, Re 12:4; βιβλαρίδιον, Re 10:9, 10; metaph.,

οἰκίας, Mt 23:13, Mk 12:40, Lk 20:47; τ. βίον, Lk 15:30; c. acc. pers., Jo 2:17(LXX), II Co 11:20,

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

κατ-εσθίω, ptep. plur. κατέσθοντες (Mk. xii. 40 Tr WH; see ἐσθίω and ἔσθω ; cf. Fritzsche, Hdbch. z. ἃ. Apokryphen, i. p. 150 [who says, ‘ The shorter form occurs freq. in the Sept., Lev. xix. 26; Sir. xx. 15, (16), elsewh. almost exclusively poetic; see Bttm. Ausf. Sprachl. ii. p. 185’ (cf. Veitch s. v. ἐσθίω) |); fut. καταφάγομαι (Jn. ii. 17 GL TTr WH; see ἐσθίω); 2 aor. κατέφαγον; Sept. for θὲ; 1. prop. to consume by eating, to eat up, devour: τί, of birds, Mt. xiii. 4; Mk. iv.4; Lk. viii. 5; of a dragon, Rey. xii. 4; of a man, eating up the little book, i.e. eagerly taking its entire contents into his inmost soul, and, as we say, digesting it (borrowed fr. the fig. in Ezek. ii. 10; iii. 1-3, ef. Jer. xv. 16): Rev. x. 9 sq. 2. Metaph. in various uses; a. to devour i. e. squander, waste, substance: Lk. xv. 30 (often so in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. Od. 3, 315; 15, 12 down; devorare…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κατεσθίω (katesthiō) — to devour.

κατεσθίω,

poetry and later κατερῡκ-έσθω [NT+5th c.BC+] (passive, 1.5, [Refs 4th c.AD+]: future κατέδομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist κατέφαγον (see. καταφαγεῖν): perfect κατεδήδοκα [Refs]; participle κατὰ.. ἐδηδώς [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, perfect κατεδήδεσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist κατηδέσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—eat up, devour, in [Refs 8th c.BC+] frequently of animals of prey, λέων κατὰ ταῦρον ἐδηδώς [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a serpent, [νεοσσοὺς] κατήσθιε [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a dolphin, κατεσθίει ὅν κε λάβῃσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of men, οἳ κατὰ βοῦς.. ἤσθιον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τοὺς γονέας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατεδηδόκασι τὰ λάχαν᾽ [Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

κατεσθίω

katesthio

from 2596 and 2068 (including its alternate); to eat down, i.e. devour

(literally or figuratively):--devour.

see GREEK for 2596

see GREEK for 2068

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κατεσθίω

v.

I eat till it is finished

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κατεσθίω katesthiō 14x

also spelled κατέσθω, to eat up, devour, Mt. 13:4; to consume, Rev. 11:5, to expend, squander, Lk. 15:30; met. to make a prey of, plunder, Mt. 23:13; Mk. 12:40; Lk. 20:47; 2 Cor. 11:20; to annoy, injure, Gal. 5:15

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κατεσθίω fut. κατέδομαι aor2 κατέφα^γον v. καταφαγεῖν perf. κατεδήδοκα epic κατέδηδα perf. pass. κατεδήδεσμαι to eat up, devour, of animals of prey, Hom.; of men, to eat up, Od., Hdt.

to eat up or devour one's substance, Ar., Dem.

λίθοι κατεδηδεσμένοι ὑπὸ σηπεδόνος corroded, Plat.

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

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

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
27%devoured
devoured27% · 4×devours13% · 2×devour13% · 2×do eat7% · 1×i ate7% · 1×he may devour7% · 1×you devour7% · 1×devouring7% · 1×other renderings13% · 2×

15 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 10 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 14 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
πετεινόςa birdδάκνωI bite, backbiteλαμβάνωI receive, take
Article the
οὗτος
πετεινόςa bird
Article the
οὐρανόςthe sky, the heaven
Article the
ὅς
κατεσθίωdevouring14×
what comes after →
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,
Article the
οἰκίαa house, househoἐχθρόςhated, hostile,
σύ
Article the
ἐγώ
εἰCond
τὶς

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

Concordanceκατεσθίω · 14× in the New Testament
Revelation Luke Mark 2 Corinthians Galatians John Matthew
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 102 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria The Epistle of Barnabas Josephus
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 1.76c. AD 40

„μὴ γένηται ὡς ἴσον θανάτῳ, ὡς ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρός, καὶ κατεσθίει τὸ ἥμισυ τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτῆς“ (Num.

JosephusThe Jewish War 6.208c. AD 75–95

καὶ ταῦθʼ ἅμα λέγουσα κτείνει τὸν υἱόν, ἔπειτʼ ὀπτήσασα τὸ μὲν ἥμισυ κατεσθίει, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν κατακαλύψασα ἐφύλαττεν.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 6.2c. AD 100

οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι ὑμεῖς πάντες ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσεσθε, καὶ σὴς καταφάγεται ὑμᾶς.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
1st c. AD 2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD
PSI 9 1057Euhemeria (Arsinoites)AD 32

κατὰ μέρος ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ἐνενηκονταδύο γίνονται δραχμαὶ ϙβ … αωρων ἀπὸ τιμῆς ἀράκου, ὃν κατέφαγεν αὐτοῦ τὰ πρόβατα ἐν οἷς ἔνεμεν περὶ Φιλαγρίδα κατοικικοῖς ἐδάφεσιν ἐκ τοῦ Διοσκοῦτος, σπόρου

P.Stras. 4 181Euhemeria (Arsinoites)AD 166

προβατοκτηνοτρόφοι τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ἐπαφῆκαν τὰ ἑαυτῶν πρόβατα εἰς ἣν ἔχω κριθὴν ἐπικειμένην καὶ κατέφαγον ἐξ ὅλων τὸν ἐπικείμενον τῆς κριθῆς καρπόν. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι καὶ ἀξιῶ ἀχθῆναι αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ

P.Oxy. 1 58OxyrhynchosAD 288

δὲ γραμματέων οἱ δὲ φροντιστῶν, ὄφελος μὲν οὐδὲν περιποιοῦσιν τῷ ταμείῳ τὰ δὲ περιγεινόμενα κατεσθίουσιν· διʼ ὅπερ ἐδέησεν ἐπισταλῆναι ὑμῖν ἵνα ἑκάστης οὐσίας ἕνα τινὰ φροντιστὴν ἀξιόχρεων κινδύνῳ ἑκάστης

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
τὰςho the G3588 Article · accusative · plural · 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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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

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

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

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.

ὁ,

ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,

__A demonstrative Pronoun.

__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.

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

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὁ ἡ τό

ho

he hay, and the neuter

to to

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

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

he, she, it, etc.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὁ, ἡ, τό

Article

the

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὁ ho 19x

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

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὁ the, that

ὁ, ἡ, τό, is

demonstr. Pronoun.

the definite Article.

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

DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:

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

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

T-APF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Accusative Number: Plural 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

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
οἰκίαςoikia houses G3614 Noun · accusative · plural · feminine
94× 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
The Greek word for home or house, referring to a physical dwelling or a family. It appears in Matthew 2:11 and John 14:2, where Jesus talks about his Father's house. It can also mean the body as a dwelling for the soul, as in 2 Corinthians 5:1.
Amplified meaning
homes, property
Tyndale gloss
home
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word οἰκία (lemma: oikia) refers to a house or dwelling, often used to denote a household or family. It is derived from οἶκος and is frequently found in the New Testament, such as in Matthew 2:11 and 2 Corinthians 5:1, where it can also metaphorically refer to the body as the dwelling of the soul. The distinction between οἰκία and οἶκος is noted, with the former typically indicating the dwelling itself and the latter encompassing the entire estate.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

οἰκία, -ας, ἡ

(< οἶκος),

[in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for בַּיִת;]

a house, dwelling: Mt 2:11 7:24-27, Mk 1:29, al.; ἐν οἰκίᾳ (= cl. κατ ̓ οἰκίαν), at home, Lk 8:27; εἰς οἰ., II Jo 10; οἰ, c. gen. pers., usually has the art. (Mt 8:14, al., but cf. οἶκος and v. Bl., § 46, 9); ἡ οἰ. τ. πατρός μου, Jo 14:2. Metaph.,

of the body as the dwelling of the soul: II Co 5:1;

of property (as בַּיִת, Ge 45:18, LXX, τ. ὑπάρχοντα; III Ki 13:8, LXX, οἶκος) = οἶκος (q.v.): Mk 12:40, Lk…

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

οἰκία, -as, ἡ, (οἶκος), Sept. for m3, [fr. Hdt. down], a house; a. prop. an inhabited edifice, a dwelling: Mt. ii. 11; vii. 24-27; Mk.i. 29; Lk. xv. 8; Jn. xii. 3; Acts iv. 34; 1 Co. xi. 22; 2 Tim. ii. 20, and often; οἱ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ se. ὄντες, Mt. v. 15; οἱ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας with gen. of pers., Phil. iv. 22; ἡ οἰκία τοῦ (πατρός pov) θεοῦ, i. e. heaven, Jn. xiv. 2; of the body as the habitation of the soul, 2 Co. v. 1. b. the inmates of a house, the family : Mt. xii. 25; ἡ οἰκία τινός, the household, the family of any one, Jn. iv. 53; 1 Co. xvi. 15 [ef. W. § 58, 4; Β. § 129, 8a.]; univ. for persons dwelling in the house, Mt. x. 13. Ὁ: property, wealth, goods, [ οἷ. Ταῦ. res familiaris]: τινός, Mt. xxiii. 14 (13) Ree. [ef. Wetst. ad loc.]; Mk. xii. 40; Lk. xx. 47; so οἶκος in Hom. (as Od. 2, 237 κατέδουσι βιαίως οἶκον ᾿Οδυσσῆος, cf. 4, 318), in Hdt. 8, 53 and in Attic; Hebr. 973, Gen. xlv.18…

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

οἰκία. For οἰκία, ‘‘a house,” in the ordinary sense of the term, it is sufficient to cite such passages as P Petr IT. 12(1)” (B.C. 241) ἐνωικοδομηκότας τὰς θύρας τῶν οἰκιῶν, ‘built up the doors of the houses,” zd. I. 1410 (a Will—s.c. 237) Katahipmavw . . [τὴν élv ᾿Αλεξανδρείαι οἰκίαν ἐμοὶ ὑπάρχουσαν, Ρ Ryl IT. 12535 (a.p. 28-0) ἔριψεν ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ μου τὴν πυξίδα κενήν, “he threw the box empty into my house ’’ (Edd.), P Oxy I. 99° (A.D. 55) μέρος ἥμισυ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης αὐτῷ μητρικῆς οἰκία[ς] τριστέγου, “ one half of a three-storied house inherited from his mother,” and BGU I. 2255 (A.D. 114) (= Selections, p. 76) ἀνέβη εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν pov. In phrases similar to the last, the word οἰκία is sometimes omitted, e.g. P Oxy III. 4724 (c. A.D. 130) ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ τε kal τοῦ κληρονομεῖν μέλλοντος υἱοῦ προῆλQe, ‘but it was from the house of himself and his son and future heir that he came forth’’…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

οἰκία (oikia) — home.

οἰκί-α,

Ionic dialect οἰκίη, Cretan dialect and Locrian dialect ϝοικία, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—ἡ, building, house, dwelling, [Refs 5th c.BC+] at home, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰ. was at home, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] as house to set of apartments or room, τᾶν οἰκιᾶν τιμὰν κομιζέσθω τῶ οἴκω ἑκάστω δύο μνᾶς [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. in Attic dialect law, οἶκος was distinguished from οἰκία, the former being the property left at a person's death, his estate, the latter the dwelling-house only, as stated by [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. distinguished from συνοικία, as one's own apartments from those let out to lodgers, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

οἰκία

oikia

from 3624; properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely)

an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication, a family

(especially domestics):--home, house(-hold).

see GREEK for 3624

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

οἰκία, ας, ἡ

n.f.

a house, household

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

οἰκία oikia 93x

a house, dwelling, an abode, Mt. 2:11; 7:24, 27; trop. the bodily abode of the soul, 2 Cor. 5:1; meton. a household, family, Mt. 10:13; 12:25; meton. goods, property, means, Mt. 23:13

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

οἰκία οἰκία, ἡ, οἰκέω a building, house, dwelling, Hdt.

a household, domestic establishment, Plat.; οἰκίας δύο ᾤκει, i. e. he kept two establishments, Dem.

the household, i. e. inmates of the house, Lat. familia, Plat.

the house or family from which one is descended, Hdt., attic

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

N-APF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Plural Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Torrey's New Topical Textbook

- Antiquity of

Ge 12:1; 19:3

- Deep and solid foundations required for

Mt 7:24; Lu 6:48

- Sometimes built without foundation

Mt 7:26; Lu 6:49

- BUILT OF

. Clay

Job 4:19

. Bricks

Ex 1:11-14; Isa 9:10

. Stone and wood

Le 14:40,42; Hab 2:11

. Hewn or cut stone

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
85%house
house85% · 81×houses7% · 7×household4% · 4×other renderings3% · 3×

95 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
adverbial55%object23%subject14%predicate6%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 94 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
εἰςἐναὐτός
εἰς
εἰσέρχομαιI go in, come inοἰκίαa house, househoἔρχομαιI come, go
ἐν
ΒηθανίαBethanyκαίand, even, also,ζητέωI seek, search f
ἀφίημιI send away, release
ὅςὅστις
Disj
πόλιςa cityχωρίονa place, piece o
οἰκίαhouses94×
what comes after →
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,διαρπάζωI plunder, rob tὅλοςall, the whole,
Article the
ἰσχυρόςstrong, mighty, χῆροςa widowἄρχωνa ruler, prince,
καίand, even, also, nam
ὁράωI see, look uponπροσέρχομαιI come near, conἀδελφόςa brother
ἐκεῖνος
καίand, even, also,ἵστημιI cause to standμέγας
ΣίμωνSimon
Article theκαίand, even, also,πενθεράa mother-in-law

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

Concordanceοἰκία · 94× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Mark Acts John 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 2 Timothy 1 Timothy 2 John Philippians
Across the New Testament11 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 143 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 Clement of Rome The Shepherd of Hermas
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 2.34c. AD 40

διὸ καὶ Μωυσῆς φησιν ὅτι „οὐκ ἐάσει τὸν ὀλοθρεύοντα εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὰς οἰκίας ὑμῶν πατάξαι“ (Exod.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.202c. AD 75–95

Ὁ θεὸς οὖν ἀγανακτήσας αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς τολμήμασι τοὺς μὲν ἠμαύρωσεν, ὡς μὴ δυνηθῆναι τὴν εἴσοδον τὴν εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν εὑρεῖν, Σοδομιτῶν δὲ κατέκρινε πάνδημον ὄλεθρον.

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 12.6c. AD 96

ὡς ἐὰν οὖν γνῷς παραγινομένους ἡμᾶς, συνάξεις πάντας τοὺς σοὺς ὑπὸ τὸ στέγος σου, καὶ διασωθήσονται: ὅσοι γὰρ ἐὰν εὑρεθῶσιν ἔξω τῆς οἰκίας, ἀπολοῦνται.

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 4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 90Pathyris100 BC

int,1 ἔτους ιϛ, Ἁθὺρ β. ὠνή. Θοτορταῖος Πατῆτος ἀπʼ οἰκίας ᾠκοδομημένης, ἐν ᾗ καμάρα, καὶ αὐλῆς ἥμισυ καὶ θυρώματα, ἐπρίατο Πετεαρσεμθεὺς Πανοβχούνιος χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς

P.Adl. 20Poinkoris (Diopolites)99 BC

ἀπὸ λιβὸς μέρει κώμης Μούχεως ἑπταρούρων πήχεις στερεοὺς μέτρῳ βασιλικοὺς τριακοσίους ὧν γείτονες νότου οἰκία Πκώιος ἧς κρατεῖ … , βορρᾶ οἱ λοιποὶ τόποι, ἀπηλιώτου ῥύμη βασιλική, λιβὸς οἱ

P.Amh. 2 51Pathyris89 BC

ἀπέδοτο Πετεῆσις Πατῆτος Πελαίαι Εὐνόου τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῶι ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ ἀπηλιώτου μέρει Παθύρεως οἰκίαν ᾠκοδομημένην καὶ δεδοκωμένην καὶ τεθυρωμένην ἧς αἱ γειτνίαι δεδήλωνται διὰ τῆς ὠνῆς.

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
τῶνho of the G3588 Article · genitive · plural · 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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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-GPF — Article · genitive · plural · feminine
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural feminine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

T-GPF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ov:

(1) In Anglo-Saxon, had the meaning "from," "away from" (as the strengthened form "off" has still), and was not used for genitive or possessive relations, these being expressed by special case-forms. In the Norman period, however, "of" was taken to represent the French de (a use well developed by the time of Chaucer), and in the Elizabethan period both senses of "of" were in common use. But after about 1600 the later force of the word became predominant, and in the earlier sense (which is now practically obsolete) it was replaced by other prepositions. In consequence the King James Version (and in some cases the Revised Version (British and American)) contains many uses of "of" that are no longer familiar--most of them, to be sure, causing no difficulty, but there still being a few responsible for real obscurities.

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

OF, preposition ov. [Gr.]

1. From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.

I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you. 1 Corinthians 11:1.

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Joshua 11:1.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.

Lamentations 3:1.

The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:1.

Go, inquire of the Lord for me. 2 Chronicles 34:2.

That holy thing that shall be born of thee. Luke 1:1.

Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain; ' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain; ' that is…

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
of 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

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
χηρῶνchēra widows G5503 Noun · genitive · plural · feminine
26× 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
A widow is a woman who has lost her husband, like in Luke 2:37 where a widow named Anna is described as worshiping God day and night. It can also be used to describe a city that has been abandoned.
Amplified meaning
women who have lost their husbands
Tyndale gloss
widow
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

χήρα is a feminine noun meaning 'widow,' derived from the masculine form χῆρος, which refers to a widower. The term appears frequently in the New Testament, including in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, often in contexts discussing the plight of widows. It can also metaphorically describe a city that has been stripped of its inhabitants or wealth, as noted in Revelation.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

χήρα, -ας, ἡ

[in LXX chiefly for אַלְמָנָה ;]

a widow: Mt 23:13 (Rec., R, mg.), Mk 12:40-43, Lk 2:37 4:25 7:12 18:3, 5 20:47 21:2, 3, Ac 6:1 9:39, 41, I Co 7:8, I Ti 5:3-5, 11, 16, Ja 1:27; γυνὴ χ., Lk 4:26; of one of an ordo viduarum (v. CGT, in l.), I Ti 5:9; metaph., of a city forsaken, Re 18:7.†

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

χήρα, -as, ἡ, (fem. of the adj. χῆρος, ‘bereft’; akin to χέρσος, sterile, barren, and the Lat. careo, [but ef. Curtius § 192]), fr. Hom. Il. 6, 408 down, Sept. for 727, a widow: Mt. xxiii. 14 (13) Ree.; Mk. xii. 40, 42 sq.; Lk. ii. 37; iv. 253 vii. 12; xviii. 3,5; χχ. 47; xxi. 2sq.; Acts vi. 1; ix. 39,41; 1Co. vii. 8; 1 Tim. v. 3-5, 9, 11, 16; Jas. i. 27; with γυνή added (2S. xiv. 5, and often in the Grk. writ. fr. Hom. Il. 2, 289 down), Lk. iv. 26; a city stripped of inhabitants and riches is represented under the figure of a widow, Rev. xviii. 7.

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

χῶρος 2. as prep. c. gen. ‘‘apart from,” ‘‘ without”: (a) of persons—P Oxy VI. 9321° (late ii/A.D.) τὰ χοιρίδια χωρὶς μοῦ μὴ πώλι, ‘do not sell the young pigs without me” (Edd.), and BGU III. 9204 (a.p, 180-181) χωρὶς κυρίου κατὰ τὰ “Pwpatfwv ἔθη. (b) of things—P Tebt I. 61 (α)} Ὁ (B.c. 118-117) χωρὶς σπέρματος Kal τῆς ἄλλης δα(πάνης), P Oxy IX. 1211" (medical receipt—ii/a.p.) πᾶν ἄρωμα χωρὶς λιβάνου, ‘every spice except frankincense.”’ (c) of abstract nouns (cf. Philem!, and the equivalent P Tebt I. 104*8 (8.6, 92) ἄνευ τῆς Φιλίσκου γνώ[μ]ης)--P Oxy IL. 237% 25 (a.p. 186) χωρὶς λόγον, 2. VIII. 112871 (A.D. 173) χωρὶς ὑπερθέσεως, “without delay,” and 76. VIII. 1130! (A.D. 484) χωρὶς ἐνγραφοῦς ἐντάγιον (= -lov), ‘‘ without a written deed.” 3 = ‘“‘besides”: (a) the object being excluded—P Oxy VIII. 112418 (A.D. 26) χωρὶς τῶν προκειμένων, ‘apart from the amounts aforesaid,” P Ryl 11. 1381%…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

χήρα (chēra) — widow.

χήρ-α,

Ionic dialect χήρη, ἡ, widow, χῆραι γυναῖκες [Refs 8th c.BC+]; as a name of Hera, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

2. Comedy texts, of a dish, widowed, i.e. without sauce, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

3. later masculine χῆρος, widower, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. χῆρος, α, ον, Adj, metaphorically, bereaved, χῆρα μέλαθρα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐνή [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; δρυμοὶ χ. bereft of men, [Refs 8th c.BC+] Sanskrit jáhāti 'abandon, renounce'.)

Strong's Greek Dictionary

χῇρος

chera

feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of 5490

through the idea of deficiency; a widow (as lacking a husband),

literally or figuratively:--widow.

see GREEK for 5490

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

χήρα, ας, ἡ

n.f.

a widow

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

χήρα chēra 26x

a widow, Mt. 23:14; Lk. 4:26

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

χήρα χήρα, ionic χήρη, ἡ, bereft of a husband, a widow, Lat. vidua, c. gen., χήρη σευ ἔσομαι, says Andromache to Hector, Il.; χῆραι γυναῖκες widow women, id. Il.; so Eur., etc.

from χήρα was formed the masc. χῆρος (as widower from widow), Anth.

χῆρος, α, ον, as adj., in metaph. sense, widowed, bereaved, χῆρα μέλαθρα Eur.; c. gen., φάρσος στελεοῦ χῆρον a piece torn from the stem, Anth.

deriv. uncertain

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

N-GPF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Plural Gender: Feminine

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
Easton's Bible Dictionary

Widows

To be treated with kindness (Ex. 22:22; Deut. 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:17, 19-21; 26:12; 27:19, etc.). In the New Testament the same tender regard for them is inculcated (Acts 6:1-6; 1 Tim. 5:3-16) and exhibited.

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

- Character of true

Lu 2:37; 1Ti 5:5,10

- GOD

. Surely hears the cry of

Ex 22:23

. Judges for

De 10:18; Ps 68:5

. Relieves

Ps 146:9

. Establishes the border of

Pr 15:25

. Will witness against oppressors of

Mal 3:5

- Exhorted to trust in God

Jer 49:11

- SHOULD NOT BE

. Afflicted

Ex 22:22

. Oppressed

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
52%widows
widows52% · 14×widow48% · 13×

27 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
subject46%object35%predicate12%adverbial4%indirect object4%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 26 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
οἰκίαa house, househoὅτιthat, since, becκαίand, even, also,
ὄντωςreally, truly
Article theδέbut, on the othe
τὶς
δέbut, on the othe
καίand, even, also, nam
ὀρφανόςbereaved, an orpβασίλισσαa queen
εἷςone
ἔρχομαιI come, go
χῆροςwidows26×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
πρόφασιςa pretext, an exὄχλοςa crowdμονόωI leave alone
οὗτος
Article theἐκδικέωI give justice o
ἐπαρκέωI aid, relieve, do s
αὐτός
πτωχόςpoor, destitute
βάλλωI cast, throw, r
ἕωςuntil, as far as
ἔτοςa year

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

Concordanceχῆρος · 26× in the New Testament
Luke 1 Timothy Acts Mark 1 Corinthians James Revelation
Across the New Testament7 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 40 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch Josephus Polycarp
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 2.63c. AD 40

εὐχὴν δὲ χήρας καὶ ἐκβεβλημένης ἀναφαίρετον ἐᾷ·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 4.240c. AD 75–95

Ταῖς δὲ δεκάταις ταῖς δυσίν, ἃς ἔτους ἑκάστου προεῖπον τελεῖν, τὴν μὲν τοῖς Λευίταις, τὴν δʼ ἑτέραν πρὸς τὰς εὐωχίας, τρίτην πρὸς αὐταῖς κατὰ τὸ ἔτος τρίτον συμφέρειν εἰς διανέμησιν τῶν σπανιζόντων γυναιξί τε χήραις καὶ παισὶν ὀρφανοῖς·

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 2.4.3c. AD 140

πέμψει οὖν Κλήμης εἰς τὰς ἔξω πόλεις, ἐκείνῳ γὰρ ἐπιτέτραπται: Γραπτὴ δὲ νουθετήσει τὰς χήρας καὶ τοὺς ὀρφανούς.

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

τὸ … … ν συνεργάζεσθαι ἢ ἀπει… τὴν σὴν τοῦ μισοπονήρου … ω γυνὴ χήρα οὐδὲ ἐμαυ… … νη διαζῆν καὶ ὦι εὐεργετημένη. … διευτύχει. … … τωι

SB 14 11904Tebtynis (Arsinoites)AD 184

σιτικὰ δημόσια ὡς ὀφειλόμενα ὑπὸ ἀγνώστου μοι ἀνθρώπου, καταφρονοῦντές μου ὡς γυναικὸς ἀβοηθήτου καὶ χήρας καθεστώσης. μὴ ἀνεχομένης δʼ ἐμοῦ ἐργολαβηθῆναι, αὐθαδῶς χρησάμενοι ἀποσπάσαντες δούλην μου Σαραπιάδα, ἃ εἶχεν

P.Oxy. 60 4071Oasis ParvaAD 241–AD 244

Ἡλιοδώρας Παράμμωνος … … … ἀπὸ τῆς Μικρᾶς Ὀάσεως. βίαν πάσχουσα … … γυνὴ χήρα καὶ πρεσβῦτις ὑπὸ Ἀμμω … … τῆς αὐτῆς Μικρᾶς Ὀάσεως

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
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

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
προφάσειprophasis as a pretext G4392 Noun · dative · singular · feminine
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
A pretense is an outward showing or pretext, like in Matthew 23:1 where it describes hypocritical behavior. It is about giving a false impression or excuse.
Amplified meaning
pretense, outward appearance
Tyndale gloss
pretense
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

πρόφασις (i.e. *prophasis*) refers to a pretext or excuse, often implying a false reason put forward to conceal the truth. It appears in various New Testament contexts, such as in Matthew 23:14 and 1 Thessalonians 2:5, where it denotes a deceptive motive or justification. The word is derived from components meaning 'to show forth' and is primarily used in a negative sense, indicating a mere facade or pretense.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πρό-φασις, -εως, ἡ

(< φήμι),

[in LXX: Ps 140 (141):4 (עֲלִילָה), Da TH 6:4, 5 (5, 6) (עִלָּה), Pr 18:1, Ho 10:4*;]

a pretence, pretext: Mt 23:1 (WM, R, txt., om.), Mk 12:40, Lk 20:47, Jo 15:22, Ac 27:30, Phl 1:18, I Th 2:5.†

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

πρό-φασις, -ews, ἡ, (mpodaive, i.e. prop. ‘to cause to shine before’ [or ‘forth’; but many derive πρόφασις directly fr. πρό-φημι]), fr. Hom. down; a. a pretext (alleged reason, pretended cause) : τῆς πλεονεξίας, such as covetousness is wont to use, 1 Th. ii. 5 ([A. V. cloak of covelousness] the meaning being, that he had never misused his apostolic office in order to disguise or to hide avaricious designs) ; πρόφασιν ἔχειν (a phrase freq. in Grk. auth., cf. Passow s. v. mp. 1 Ὁ. vol. ii. p. 1251"; [L. and S. s. Vv. 1.3 e.]) περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Jn. xv. 22 [A. V.mrg. R.V. excuse |. Ὁ. show: προφάσει ὡς κτλ. [A. V.] under color as though they would etc. Acts xxvii. 30; προφάσει, [A. V. for a pretence], in pretence, ostensibly: Mt. xxiii. 14 (18) Ree.; Mk. xii. 40; Lk. xx. 47; Phil. i. 18.

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

πρόφασις (1.-οπἰαι), ‘‘on being appointed to the post of komogrammateus previously held by me” (Edd.), 2. 50% (B.c. 112-1) (= Chrest. I. p. 386) ἐκσκάψαι τὸν ὑδραγωγὸν καθὼς προὐπῆρξεν, “to dig out the conduit as it was before” (Edd.), and from the inscrr. Sy/7 462 (=% 526)? (iii/B.c.) κα[τὰ τ]οὺς νόμους τοὺς προὐυπίάρχ]ῇοντας, 7. 928 (= *679)"* (B.C. 143) στήλην λεύ]κου λίθου, ἣν καὶ στησάτω πλησίον τῆς προὐπαρχούση[ς] (sc. στήλης). Vett. Val. p. 2535 διὰ τὴν προὐπάρχουσαν ἔχθραν.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πρόφασις (prophasis) — pretense.

πρόφᾰσ-ις, εως, ἡ,

(προφαίνω) motive or cause alleged, whether truly or falsely: then, actual motive or cause, whether alleged or not:

I. alleged motive, plea, without implication of truth or falsity, ἐπὶ σμικρῇ π. [Refs 6th c.BC+]; καὶ ἐπὶ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐπὶ βραχείᾳ π. whether the plea put forward be a trifle or a weighty matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς αἰτίας τὴν π. the plea in the case, the basis of the charge, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοιαύτας ἔχοντες π. καὶ αἰτίας pleas and motives, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἐπιεικής[Refs 4th c.BC+]; προφάσεις ἀληθεῖς λέγοντος pleading what was in fact true, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πρόφασις

prophasis

from a compound of 4253 and 5316; an outward showing, i.e.

pretext:--cloke, colour, pretence, show.

see GREEK for 4253

see GREEK for 5316

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πρόφασις, εως, ἡ

n.f.

a pretext, an excuse

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πρόφασις prophasis 6x

pr. that which appears in front, that which is put forward to hide the true state of things; a fair show or pretext, Acts 27:30; a specious cloak, Mt. 23:13; 1 Thess. 2:5; an excuse, Jn. 15:22

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πρόφασις πρόφα^σις, εως, προφαίνω or πρόφημι that which is alleged as the cause, an allegation, plea, καὶ ἐπὶ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐπὶ βραχείᾳ ὁμοίως προφάσει to great or small plea alike, Thuc.; πρ. ἀληθεστάτη id. Thuc.

mostly in bad sense, a mere pretext, a pretence, excuse, Hdt., etc.; opp. to the true cause (αἰτία), Thuc.: c. gen. the pretext or pretence for a thing, Hdt., etc.:—absol. in acc., πρόφασιν in pretence, Il., attic; πρόφασιν μέν, opp. to τὸ δ᾽ ἀληθές, Thuc.; so in dat., προφάσει id. Thuc.: — ἀπὸ προφάσιος τοιῆσδε from or on some such pretext as this, Hdt., etc.:— προφάσιος εἵνεκεν id. Hdt.:— ἐπὶ προφάσει by way of excuse, Theogn., Thuc.; so, ἐπὶ προφάσιος Hdt.; κατὰ πρόφασιν id. Hdt.:—foll. by an inf., αὕτη ἦν σοι πρ. ἐκβαλεῖν ἐμέ for casting me out, Soph.; πρόφασιν ἔχει τοῖς δειλαίοις μὴ…

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

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

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
43%as a pretext
as a pretext43% · 3×pretext29% · 2×under pretense14% · 1×excuse14% · 1×

7 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 4 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
adverbial67%object17%predicate17%

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
χῆροςa widow
δέbut, on the other ha
νῦνnow, already, at
θάλασσαthe sea, lake
Article the
εἴτεand if, whether
τρόποςway, manner, cha
ἐν
οὔτεNeg
πρόφασιςas a pretext
what comes after →
μακρόςlong, distant
προσεύχομαιI pray, pray for
οὐNeg
ἔχωI have, hold, po
ὡςas, like as, how, wh
ἐκ
εἴτεand if, whether
ἀλήθειαtruth
πλεονεξίαcovetousness, avaric
θεόςGod, a god

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

Concordanceπρόφασις · 6× in the New Testament
1 Thessalonians Acts John Luke Mark Philippians
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 155c. AD 40

ὡς δὲ εἶδε ῥέπουσαν μὲν ἐπὶ πανουργίαν, εὐσεβείας δὲ καὶ ὁσιότητος ὀλιγωροῦσαν, ἐξ ὧν ἡ ἀθάνατος ζωὴ περιγίνεται, προὐβάλετο κατὰ τὸ εἰκὸς καὶ ἐφυγάδευσεν ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου, μηδ’ ἐλπίδα τῆς εἰσαῦθις ἐπανόδου δυσίατα καὶ ἀθεράπευτα πλημμελούσῃ ψυχῇ…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.319c. AD 75–95

καὶ τὰ μὲν προφάσει τῶν γάμων ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ γενόμενα καίπερ ὄντα χαλεπὰ κουφότερα ἔφασκε, χείρω δὲ τὰ μετὰ τοὺς γάμους καὶ ἅ τις ἂν ἔπαθεν ἐχθρὸς ἔφυγε.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 2nd c. AD 5th c. AD
SB 1 5761Arsinoites ?AD 89–AD 91

δὲ ἐπιτρόπους εἰς τοῦτο παρεισελθόντας … λυτον … ὀνόματι τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς ἃ μὲν διηρπακέναι προφάσει περιλύσεως δανείων τῶν τοῦ ἀποθανόντος πατρὸς αὐτῆς, ἃ δὲ καὶ πεπρακέναι Ἀπίαι τῆι ἀντιδίκωι

P.Mich. 10 581Bakchias (Arsinoites)AD 126–AD 128

τούτων ἠνάγκασε τὸν τοῦ πεδίου ἀρχέφοδον κατενγυῆσαι ὃν καὶ ἐγὼ ἔχω γειτνεύοντα χόρτου αὐτοῦ προφάσει καὶ ἐμὲ κεκλοφέναι ὥστε ἕνα τῶν πρεσβυτέρων Ἀλεξᾶν συμβαλεῖν τὸν χόρτον ἀσύμφωνον εὑρε

O.Claud. 4 887Mons ClaudianusAD 150–AD 154

τὴν πλάκα. εἰ οὖν θέλεις ἵνα ἀπαρτισθῇ, ἔξελθε στομώσειν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἆρον αὐτῶν τὴν πρόφασιν μετὰ δύο σφυροκόπων Μα … Μωνισπος

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
μακρὰmakros at great length G3117 Adjective · accusative · plural · neuter
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
Something that is long or distant can refer to physical space or time, as seen in Mark 12:40 and Luke 15:13. It can describe something that is far away or of long duration.
Tyndale gloss
long/distant
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

μακρός is an adjective meaning 'long' or 'distant,' applicable to both space and time. It can describe physical length, height, or duration, as well as distance from a point. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts such as long prayers (Mk 12:40) and distant places (Lk 15:13, 19:12). The lexicons agree on its general meanings without notable disagreement.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

μακρός, -ά, -όν,

[in LXX for אָרֶךְ, רָחוֹק and cognate forms, etc.;]

of space and time, long: μακρὰ προσεύχεσθαι, Mk 12:40, Lk 20:47.

of distance, far, far distant: χώρα, Lk 15:13 19:12.†

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

μακρός, -d, -dv, [fr. Hom. down], long; of place, remote, distant, far off: χώρα, Lk. xv.13; xix.12. of time, long, lasting long: μακρὰ προσεύχομαι, to pray long, make long prayers, Mt. xxiii. 14 (13) Rec.; Mk. xii. 40; Lk. xx. 47.

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

μακρός is used of t#2me in P Giss I. 414? (beg. οἵ Hadrian’s reign) ὑπὸ THs μακρᾶς ἀποδημίας τὰ ἡμέτερα] πα[ντ]άπασιν ἀμεληθέντα τυγχ[άνει, ‘owing to our long absence from home our affairs came to be altogether neglected’’: cf. Preisigke 3025 5 (B.c. 149-8 or 137-6) μακ[ρὸν ἂν εἴη] παραγραφή, ‘“‘longae possessionis (longi temporis) praescriptio,’’ In a tract on medical training, Ger/. Avass. Texte ili. p. 22ff. Col. 2, 7ff., it is laid down: Se... τοὺς νέους ἐξ ἀρχῆς συνασκεῖν τοῖς ἀνα[γ]καιοτέροις πρ]άγμασιν τοῦ βίου βραχέος ὄντ[ο]ς καὶ τῆς τέχνης μακρῆς, ὥς φησιν ὁ Ἱπποκράτης. The reference is to stature in P Lond 1158® tions, e.g. P ἈΝ] 11. 1534 (A.D. 138-161) μέσος μελίχρῳς μακροπρόσωπος, “of medium height, with a fair comIn MGr the word has changed…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μακρός (makros) — long/distant.

μακρός, ά, όν [ᾰ

by nature], long, whether of Space or Time,

I. of Space,

I.1. in length, long, δόρυ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νέες, νῆες μ. ships of war, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τὰ -ότερα measured by the longer sides, i. e. length-wise, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ μ. τείχη the long walls of Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ μακρά (i.e. γραμμή), line traced by δικασταί to indicate the heavier penalty, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ μ. δρόμος the long-distance torch-race, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

I.2. in height, tall, high, μ. Ὄλυμπος, οὔρεα, δένδρεα, κίων, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a man, μακρότερον καὶ πάσσονα θῆκεν ἰδέσθαι [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

I.2. b reversely, deep, φρείατα [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

μακρός

makros

from 3372; long (in place (distant) or time (neuter plural)):--far,

long.

see GREEK for 3372

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

μακρός, ά, όν

Adj

long, distant

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

μακρός makros 4x

long; of space, far, distant, remote, Lk. 15:13; 19:12; of time, of long duration, Mk. 12:40; Lk. 20:47*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

μακρός (from ΜΑΚ, Root of μῆκος) of Space,

in point of length, long, Hom., etc.; ἐπὶ τὰ μακρότερα towards the longer sides, i. e. lengthwise, Hdt.

in point of height, tall, Hom., e. g. μακρὸς Ὄλυμπος, μ. δένδρεα, τείχεα, etc.:—also reversely, like Lat. altus, deep, Il.

in point of distance, long, far, far distant, id. Il., Hdt.; τὰ μακρότατα the remotest parts, Hdt.:—often in neut. pl. as adv., μακρὰ βιβάς far-striding, Il.; also, μακρὸν ἀϋτεῖν, βοᾶν to shout so as to be heard afar, Hom.; so, μακρότερον σφενδονᾶν to sling to a greater distance, Xen.

generally, large in size or in degree, large, great, Aesch., Soph.

dat. μακρῷ is used to strengthen the comp. and Sup. by far, Lat. longe, μακρῷ πρῶτος, μ. μάλιστα Hdt.; ἀσθενεστέρα μ. Aesch.…

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

A-APN Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Plural Gender: Neuter

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
50%at great length
at great length50% · 2×distant50% · 2×

4 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
object40%adverbial40%predicate20%

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
πρόφασιςa pretext, an excuse
καίand, even, also,
χώραregion, land, fields
εἰς
εἰς
Article the
μακρόςat great length
what comes after →
προσεύχομαιI pray, pray for
οὗτος
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐκεῖthere, yonder, t
λαμβάνωI receive, take
ἑαυτοῦ
ὅσος
ἄνDisj

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

Concordanceμακρός · 5× in the New Testament
Luke Acts Mark
Across the New Testament3 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Polycarp The Didache
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 141c. AD 40

ἀποδεῖ γὰρ τὰ μιμήματα τῶν ἀρχετύπων, τὰ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν μιμημάτων γραφόμενα καὶ πλαττόμενα πολὺ μᾶλλον, ἅτε μακρὰν ἀφεστῶτα τῆς ἀρχῆς·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.260c. AD 75–95

ὁ δὲ τοιούτου πάλιν ἐκ μεταβολῆς τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ βασκάνου πειραθεὶς Ἀβιμελέχου τότε μὲν ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς τὴν λεγομένην Φάραγγα χωρίον οὐ μακρὰν Γεράρων, ὀρύσσοντι δʼ αὐτῷ φρέαρ ποιμένες ἐπιπεσόντες εἰς μάχην ἐχώρησαν κωλύοντες τὸ ἔργον, καὶ μὴ βουληθέντος…

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 3.2.7c. AD 140

τοὺς δὲ ἑτέρους λίθους τοὺς φερομένους ἀπὸ τῆς ξηρᾶς τοὺς μὲν ἀπέβαλλον, τοὺς δὲ ἐτίθουν εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομήν: ἄλλους δὲ κατέκοπτον καὶ ἔρριπτον μακρὰν ἀπὸ τοῦ πύργου.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 4th c. AD 1st c. AD
P.Eirene 4 30Oxyrhynchos (?)AD 1–AD 200

τον ἀσθενεῖς τὰς ὄψεις, Θέωνα δὲ δημοσίαις χρείαις προσευκαιρεῖν το … … σύμπαν εἰς μακρὰν … … … ς τοῦ γένους … προσευκαιρεῖν ταῖς αὐτῆς οἰκονομίαις … ἕτερον τ

P.Brem. 51Hermopolis (?)AD 113–AD 120

ἐν ᾗ συνήλιξα αὐτοῦ διαγραφήν. ταύτην αὐτῷ ἀναδώσεις. ἔγραψα Ὀλύμπῳ δοῦναί σοι τὴν δαπάνην μακρὰν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἣν πεποίησαι εἰς τὴν μητέρα μου. εἰσὶ δραχμαὶ υιε … … μου

P.Oxy. 3 617 descr.OxyrhynchosAD 135

α σιτολόγ ἄνω τοπαρχίας Σκὼ τόπων ἀπὸ θέματος Διονυσίου Πανου … Ψεναμούνει … αια Μακρα ἀρτάβας ἓξ τέταρτον γίνονται ἀρτάβαι ς δ. Διοσκουρίδης σεσημείωμαι.

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
προσευχόμενοι,proseuchomai praying, G4336 Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
86× 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
To pray to God, as Jesus did in Matthew 6:5-7 and Luke 1:10, or to worship Him
Amplified meaning
long, distant, to pray, worship
Tyndale gloss
to pray
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

προσεύχομαι is a Greek verb meaning to pray, specifically directed towards God or gods. It is built from the roots meaning 'towards' and 'to vow.' The New Testament frequently uses this term in various contexts, including supplication and worship, as seen in verses like Matthew 6:5-7 and James 5:13. The entries do not present any significant disagreement.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

προσ-εύχομαι,

[in LXX chiefly for פלל hith.;]

to pray (always of prayer to God, or in cl., to gods): absol., Mt 6:5-7, 9 14:23 19:13 26:36, 39, 41, 44, Mk 1:35 6:46 11:24, 25 13:33 (WH, R, txt., om.) Mk 14:32, 38, 39, Lk 1:10 3:21 5:16 6:12 9:18, 28, 29 11:1, 2 18:1, 10 22:44 (WH, R, mg., om.), Ac 1:24 6:6 9:11, 40 10:9, 30 11:5 12:12 13:3 14:23 16:25 20:36 21:5 22:17 28:8, I Co 11:4, 5 14:14, I Th 5:17, I Ti 2:8, Ja 5:13, 18; seq. λέγων, Read the full entry →

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προσ-εύχομαι; depon. mid.; impf. προσηυχόμην ; fut. προσεύξομαι; 1 aor. mpoonv&duny; [on the augm. see WH. App. p. 162; ef. Τὰ Proleg. p. 121]; fr. Aeschyl. and Hat. down ; Sept. for Sbann; to offer prayers, to pray, (everywhere of prayers to the gods, or to God [cf. δέησις, fin.]): absol., Mt. vi. 5-7, 9; xiv. 23; xxvi. 36,39, 44; Mk. i. 35; vi.46; xi. 24 sq.; xiii. 33 [ΠΤ WH om. Tr br. the el.]; xiv. [32], 39; Lk. i. 10; iii. 21; v.16; vi. 12; ix. 18, 28 sq-; xi. 1.54. : xviii. 1, 10; xxii. 44 [Τὸ br. WH reject the pass.]; Acts i. 24; vi. 6; ix 11. 40. χ 9.530. Kio ois xii. 12; xiii. 3; xiv. 23; xvi. 25; xx. 86; χχὶ. 5; xxii. 17; xxviii. 8; 1 Co. xi. 4 sq.3 xiv.14; 1 Th.v.17; 1 Tim. ii. 8; Jas. v. 13,18; foll. by λέγων and direct disc. containing the words of the prayer, Mt. xxvi. 39, 42; Lk. xxii.41; προσεύχ- with a dat. indicating the manner or instrument, 1 Co. xi.5 [W. $31, 7d.]…

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

προσεύχομαι. An interesting ex. of this verb, which is always used of prayer to the gods or to God, is afforded by P Cairo Zen 59034 (B.C. 257). A certain Zoilos had been ordered by the god Sarapis to inform a high State official Apollonios that a temple should be erected to him. Zoilos neglected the charge and in consequence was thrown into a serious illness κινδυνεῦσαί [pe. But on praying to the god and promising to do his bidding he was healed—* προσευξάμενος δὲ] αὐ[τῶι, ἐ]άμ pe] ὑγιάσηι, διότι ὑπομενῶ τὴν ληιτοϊῃυρ)γίαν καὶ ποιή[σει]ν τὸ ὑφ᾽ αὑτοῦ προστασσόμενον (supply ὑγιάσθην). [An important commentary on the whole letter is supplied by Deissmann Zxf. VIII. xxiv. p. 420ff.J. Cf. Pretsigke 3740 (i/a.b.) ΓἌττηος προσεύχετα[ι] τοῖς ᾿Αβύτο “νὰ θεοῖς, ἵνα ὑγιαίνῃ. See also 5.2.…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

προσεύχομαι (proseuchomai) — to pray.

προσεύχομαι,

future -ξομαι[Refs 4th c.BC+]:—offer prayers or vows, θεοῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. with accusative, π. τὸν θεόν address him in prayer, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. absolutely, offer prayers, worship, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. γλώσσῃ, πνεύματι, νοΐ, [NT]

II. with accusative of things, pray for a thing, νίκην πολέμου [Refs 5th c.BC+]: c.infinitive, ἕλκειν τὸ βέδυ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ζῆσαι προσεύχου pray for life, [Refs] with infinitive, [NT]; π. ἵνα.., περί τινων ὅπως, [NT]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

προσεύχομαι

proseuchomai

from 4314 and 2172; to pray to God, i.e. supplicate, worship:--pray (X

earnestly, for), make prayer.

see GREEK for 4314

see GREEK for 2172

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

προσεύχομαι

v.

I pray, pray for

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

προσεύχομαι proseuchomai 85x

to pray, offer prayer, Mt. 5:44; 6:5, 6

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

προσεύχομαι fut. ξομαι Dep.:

to offer prayers or vows, Aesch., Eur., etc.

c. acc., πρ. τὸν θεόν to address him in prayer, Ar.

absol. to offer prayers, to worship, Hdt., Aesch., etc.

πρ. τι to pray for a thing, Xen.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PNP-NPM — Verb · present · no voice stated · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PNP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: middle or passive depoNent Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
28%praying
praying28% · 24×do pray17% · 15×pray13% · 11×having prayed8% · 7×he prayed8% · 7×he was praying5% · 4×you may pray3% · 3×he should pray2% · 2×other renderings16% · 14×

87 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 20 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
verb86%adverbial14%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 86 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
γρηγορέωI am awake, am vσύαὐτός
σύ
θύραa door, opportunκαταράομαιI curseπερί
αὐτός
πρόσωπονthe face, counteεἰμίI am, existλέγωI say, speak
ὅτανwhen, whensoever
καίand, even, also,δέbut, on the otheαὐτός
ἀπέρχομαιI come or go away fr
πάλινagain, further, δεύτερος& Adv
προσεύχομαιpraying,86×
what comes after →
Article the
δέbut, on the otheπατήρfather, Father, αὐτός
καίand, even, also, nam
αἰτέωI ask, request, λέγωI say, speakεἰμίI am, exist
ἵναin order that, so th
μήNegεἰCondδιερμηνεύωI translate, int
περί
ἐγώArticle theαὐτός
δέbut, on the other ha
ἵναin order that, sμήNegκαίand, 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

Concordanceπροσεύχομαι · 86× in the New Testament
Luke Acts Matthew Mark 1 Corinthians James Colossians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy Ephesians Hebrews
Across the New Testament15 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 44 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
Ignatius of Antioch The Shepherd of Hermas The Didache Philo of Alexandria Josephus
Philo of AlexandriaOn Dreams 2.139c. AD 40

Ἆρ’ οὖν, φησίν, ἐλεύσομαι μὲν ὁ ὀρθὸς λόγος, ἐγώ, ἀφίξεται δὲ καὶ ἡ τοῦ φιλομαθοῦς θιάσου [ψυχὴ] μήτηρ ὁμοῦ καὶ τροφός, ἀρετῶσα παιδεία, συντενοῦσι δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀμφοτέρων ἡμῶν ἔγγονοι καὶ στάντες ἀντικρὺς οὕτω κατὰ στοῖχον ἐν κόσμῳ τὰς χεῖρας ἐξάραντες…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 10.252c. AD 75–95

ὁρῶντες οὖν τὸν Δανίηλον τρὶς τῆς ἡμέρας προσευχόμενον τῷ θεῷ πρόφασιν ἔγνωσαν εὑρηκέναι, διʼ ἧς ἀπολέσουσιν αὐτόν.

Clement of RomeSecond Clement 16.4c. AD 96

καλὸν οὖν ἐλεημοσύνη ὡς μετάνοια ἁμαρτίας: κρείσσων νηστεία προσευχῆς, ἐλεημοσύνη δὲ ἀμφοτέρων: ἀγάπη δὲ καλύπτει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν, προσευχὴ δὲ ἐκ καλῆς συνειδήσεως ἐκ θανάτου ῥύεται.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
4th c. AD 3rd c. BC undated
P.Lond. 7 2046Philadelphia (Arsinoites)276 BC–227 BC

μόνος, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἰκείους ἔχω ἵνα καὶ περὶ τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῆς σῆς ὑγιείας προσεύχωμαι. γέγραφα οὖν σοι ἵνα μὴ ἀλλότριος ἐμπέσηι, ἀλλʼ ἐγώ σοι ὑπάρχω. εὐτύχει.

P.Lond. 6 1926AD 326–AD 375

ἴασιν λαμβάνω. δέομαι τῷ θεῷ δέομαι καὶ σοι μνήσθητί μου ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ σου προσευχῇ. εἰ καὶ ἐν σώματι οὐκ ἧκα παρὰ τοὺς πόδας σου ἐν πνεύματι ἧκα πρὸς

P.Neph. 12Omboi ?AD 301–AD 400

Σεραπίωνα ἀ … … Ταϩμουρού· ἀσπάζομαι Καπίτωνα· ἀσπάζομαι ὑμᾶς πάντας τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου, ὅπως προσεύχησθε περὶ ἐμοῦ. γράφω σοι, Νεφερῶς, προνοήσῃς τὸ μικρὸν … … ον γῆς, ὡς ἔρχομαι,

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
οὗτοιohutos These G3778 Demonstrative pronoun · nominative · plural · masculine
1,388× 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 refers to a specific person or thing, like when Jesus says 'this is my body' in Matthew 26:26 and Mark 14:22.
Amplified meaning
they, the ones who do this
Tyndale gloss
this/he/she/it
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word οὗτος (i.e., *houtos*) is a demonstrative pronoun meaning 'this' or 'this one.' It is used to refer to something nearby or recently mentioned, often with a connotation of contempt in certain contexts. In the New Testament, it appears in various forms, such as in Matthew 3:17 and John 1:15, and can also serve to emphasize or clarify a subject.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο, gen., τούτου, ταύτης, τούτου,

[in LXX chiefly for זֶה, זֹאת;]

demonstr. pron. (related to ἐκεῖνος as hic to ille),

this;

as subst., this one, he;

absol.: Mt 3:17, Mk 9:7, Lk 7:44, 45, Jo 1:15, Ac 2:15, al.; expressing contempt (cl.), Mt 13:55, 56, Mk 6:2, 3, Jo 6:42, al.; εἰς τοῦτο, Mk 1:38, Ro 14:9; μετὰ τοῦτο (ταῦτα; V. Westc. on Jo 5:1), Jo 2:12 11:7, al.;

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οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο, demonstrative pron. [ef. Curtius p. 543], Hebr. 71, ΠΝ, this; used I. absolutely. 1. a. this one, visibly present here: Mt. iii. 17; xvii.5; Mk. ix. 7; Lk. vii. 44 sq.; ix. 35; 2 Pet.i.17. Mt.ix.3; xxi. 38; Mk. xiv. 69; Lk. 11. 34; xxiii. 2; Jn. i. 15, 30; vii. 25; ix. 8 54. 19; xviii. 21,50; xxi. 21; Actsii. 15; iv. 10; ix. 21; according to the nature and character of the person or thing mentioned, it is used with a suggestion —either of contempt, as Mt. xiii. 55 sq.; Mk. vi. 2 sq.: Lk. v. 21; vii. 39,49; Jn. vi. 42,52; vii. 15; or of admiration, Mt. xxi. 11; Actsix.21; οἵ, Wahl, Clavis apocryphor. V. T. p- 370% b. it refers to a subject immediately preceding, the one just named: Lk. i. 32; ii. 37 [RGL]; Jn. i. 2; vi. 71; 2 Tim. iii. 6,8, ete.; at the beginning of a narrative about one already mentioned, Mt. iii. 3; Lk. xvi. 1; Jn. i. 41 (42); ili. 2; xii. 21; xxi.…

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

οὗτος. A few of the prepositional phrases with this common demonstrative pron. may be illustrated διὰ τοῦτο, ‘on this account,” cf. P Ryl IT. 845 (a.p. 146) τὴν ἄνεσιν τὴν διὰ τοῦτο γενομένην τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, “the ensuing remission “ OUT@S, O’.TO@ of the lands’ (Edd.): ἐκ τούτου, ‘for this reason,’’ Jn 6° cf. 26. 81°4 (c, A.D, 104) ἐκ τούτου δὲ [φανεῖρόν ἐστιν [καὶ] μηδένα χρῇζειν, “‘it is evident from this that nobody wants it’’ (Edd.), BGU 11. 423!7 (ason to his father—ii/a.D.) (= Selections, p. 91) με ἐπαίδευσας καλῶς, Kal ἐκ τούτου ἐλπίζω ταχὺ προκόσί-- par τῶν θε[ῶ]ν θελόντων, “you have brought me up well, and for this reason I hope to be quickly promoted, if the gods will”: τούτου ἕνεκα, ‘‘ for this purpose,” cf. P Oxy I. 1138 (ii/a.p.) ἐὰν δ᾽ dpa μή, ; ἅμα τῷ vide μου ἐξέρχομαι τούτου ἕνεκα, “otherwise I and my son will come for this purpose’’ (Edd.): ἐπὶ τούτων, ““upon this,” ‘in…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

οὗτος (ohutos) — this/he/she/it.

οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο,

genitive τούτου, ταύτης, τούτου, etc.: the dual feminine never in Attic dialect, see ὁ, ἡ, τό, [near the start]:—demonstrative pronoun, this, common from [Refs 8th c.BC+]

__A ORIGIN and FORMS: οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο probably arose from a reduplication of the demonstrative ὁ, ἡ, τό with insertion of -υ- (= Sanskrit Particle u), e.g. ταῦτα from τα-υ-τα: Doric dialect genitive singular feminine τούτας [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc., the latter is uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+], as genitive singular neuter οὕτω [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; accusative singular feminine οὕταν [Refs 6th c.BC+] —In _Attic dialect_ οὗτος was frequently strengthened by the _demonstrative_ -ί, οὑτοσί, αὑτηί, τουτί, _genitive_ τουτουί, _dative_ τουτῳί, _accusative_ τουτονί; plural nominative οὑτοιί, neuter ταυτί, etc., this man here…

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Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο

Dem.pr.

this, he, she, it

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

οὗτος houtos 1x

this, this person or thing, Mt. 3:3, 9, 17; 8:9; 10:2; 24:34, et al. freq.; used by way of contempt, this fellow, Mt. 13:55; 27:47; αὐτὸ τοῦτο, this very thing, this same thing, 2 Cor. 2:3; 7:11; εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο, and elliptically, αὐτὸ τοῦτο, for this same purpose, on this account, Eph. 6:18, 22; 2 Pet. 1:5; καὶ οὗτος, and moreover, Lk. 7:12; 16:1; 20:30; καὶ τοῦτο, and that too, 1 Cor. 6:6, 8; tοῦτο μὲν ... τοῦτο δέ, partly ... partly, Heb.…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

οὗτος demonstr. Pron. this, Lat. hic, to designate the nearer of two things, opp. to ἐκεῖνος, the more remote (cf. ὅδε), Hom., etc.

when, of two things, one precedes and the other follows, ὅδε generally refers to what follows, οὗτος to what precedes, Soph., etc.

so also, οὗτος is used emphat., generally in contempt, while ἐκεῖνος (like Lat. ille) denotes praise, ὁ πάντ᾽ ἄναλκις οὗτος, i. e. Aegisthus, id. Soph.; οὗτος ἀνήρ Plat.; τούτους τοὺς συκοφάντας id. Plat.

in attic law-language, οὗτος is commonly applied to the opponent, whether plaintiff or defendant, whereas in Lat. hic was the client, iste the opponent, Dem.

often much like an adv., in local sense (cf. ὅδε init.), τίς δ᾽ οὗτος κατὰ νῆας ἔρχεαι; who art thou here that comest . . ? Il.; often in attic, τίς οὑτοσί; who's this…

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

D-NPM Part of Speech: Demonstrative pronoun Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
55%this
this55% · 781×these things16% · 231×these14% · 196×he3% · 49×other renderings5% · 73×other renderings7% · 94×

1,424 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 49 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
subject36%object32%adverbial26%predicate4%indirect object2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 1,388 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
αὐτόςδέbut, on the otheλέγωI say, speak
διά
καίand, even, also,αὐτόςεἰμίI am, exist
ἐν
καίand, even, also,γάρforοὔτεNeg
αὐτός
λέγωI say, speakεἰςγάρfor
ὅτιthat, since, because
λέγωI say, speakοἶδαI know, rememberγράφωI write
οὗτοςThese1388×
what comes after →
Article the
λόγοςa word, speech, θεόςGod, a godἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
εἰμίI am, exist
Article theκαίand, even, also,ὅς
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theκατακρίνωI condemnεἰμίI am, exist
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakεἰμίI am, existαὐτός
λέγωI say, speak
σύArticle theαὐτός

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

Concordanceοὗτος · 1,388× in the New Testament
John Acts Luke Matthew Mark 1 Corinthians Romans Revelation Hebrews 2 Corinthians 1 John 2 Peter

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

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 2,054 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 12c. AD 40

ἀλλ’ ὅ γε μέγας Μωυσῆς ἀλλοτριώτατον τοῦ ὁρατοῦ νομίσας εἶναι τὸ ἀγένητον — πᾶν γὰρ τὸ αἰσθητὸν ἐν γενέσει καὶ μεταβολαῖς οὐδέποτε κατὰ ταὐτὰ ὄν — τῷ μὲν ἀοράτῳ καὶ νοητῷ προσένειμεν ὡς ἀδελφὸν καὶ συγγενὲς ἀιδιότητα, τῷ δ’ αἰσθητῷ γένεσιν οἰκεῖον…

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

ὡς πύργος, ὃν οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ ἐφ' ὕβρει τοῦ θεοῦ ᾠκοδόμησαν, καὶ ὡς τὰς φωνὰς αὐτῶν μετέβαλε καὶ ὁ τόπος, ἐν ᾧ τοῦτο γέγονε, Βαβυλὼν ἐκλήθη.

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

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

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

ὡς ἐτῶν μ χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δύο . προπωλητὴς καὶ βεβαιωτὴς τῶν κατὰ τὴν ὠνὴν ταύτην πάντων Πετεαρσεμθεὺς ὁ ἀποδόμενος, ὃν ἐδέξατο Πετεαρσεμθεὺς ὁ πριάμενος. Ἑρμίας ὁ παρὰ Πανίσκου κεχρημάτικα.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

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

BGU 3 1000Pathyris99 BC

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

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
λήμψονταιlambanō will receive G2983 Verb · future · middle deponent · indicative · third person · plural
258× 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
To take or receive something, like in Matthew 26:26, where Jesus takes bread and breaks it. It can also mean to accept or obtain something, and is often translated as receive or accept in the KJV.
Amplified meaning
take, accept
Tyndale gloss
to take
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

λαμβάνω (lambanō) means both 'to take' and 'to receive,' covering a wide range of applications from literal actions like grasping or seizing to more abstract uses such as accepting ideas or concepts. It appears frequently in the New Testament, often in contexts involving physical actions (e.g., taking bread in Mt 26:26) or receiving something (e.g., receiving a message in Jn 6:21). The lexicons note that the word can also imply a sense of violence or urgency in some contexts.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

λαμβάνω,

[in LXX chiefly for לקח, also for נשׂא, לכד, אחז, etc.;]

to take, lay hold of: absol., Mt 26:26, Mk 14:22; c. acc. rei, Mt 5:40 26:52, al. mult.; c. acc. pers., Mt 21:35, Mk 12:3, al.; pleonastic λαβών (M, Pr., 230; Bl., §74, 2), Mt 13:31 14:19, al.; so also indic., Mk 7:27, Jo 19:1, 40, Re 8:5, al.; metaph., c. acc. rei, ἀφορμήν, Ro 7:8, 11; ὑδόδειγμα, Ja 5:10; id. c. acc. pers.…

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λαμβάνω; impf. ἐλάμβανον; fut. λήψομαι, (LT Tr WH λήμψομαι, an Alexandrian form; 568 8. v. M, μ); 2 aor. ἔλαβον (2 pers. plur. once [in Tdf. 7 after B*] ἐλάβατε, 1 Jn. ii. 27; see reff. s. v. ἀπέρχομαι, init.), impv. λάβε (Rey. x. 8 54.), not λαβέ (W. § 6,1 a.; B. 62 (54)); pf. εἴληφα, 2 pers. εἴληφας [and εἴληφες (Rev. xi. 17 WHI; see xomidw); on the use of the pf. interchangeably with an aor. (Rey. v. 7; viii. 5, ete.) οἵ. B. 197 (170) ; W. 272 (255); Jebb in Vincent and Dickson’s Mod. Grk. 2d ed. App. §§ 67, 68], ptep. εἰληφώς ; [Pass., pres. ptep. λαμβανόμενος ; pf. 3 pers. sing. εἴληπται, Jn. viii. 4 ὙΠ το. (rejected section)]; Sept. hundreds of times for n>), very often for 8wW3, also for 729 and several times for 108; [fr. Hom. down]; I. to take,i.e. 1. to take with the hand, lay hold of, any pers. or thing in order to use it: absol., where the context shows what is taken, Mt.…

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λαμβάνω in its ordinary sense of ‘‘ receive,” ‘‘ get,” as in Mt 78, Jn 357, is naturally very common, e.g. P Giss I. 67° (ii/a.p.) ἔλαβόν σου ἐπιστολήν, P Ryl II. 122} (a.p. 127) λαβὼν τὸ πιττάκιον τὸ ἀκόλουθον ποίει, “on receipt of this document, act in accordance with it” (Edd.), P Fay 1274 (ii/iii a.p.) | ἐὰ (= ἐὰν) λάβητε φαγὸν πέμψαι ἐμοὶ διὰ Karolrov, “if you get any lentils send them to me by Katoitus " (Edd.), and 76, 1355 (iv/A.D.) τὰ ἀργύρια ἃ ἔλαβες, “money which you received.” Similarly in connexion with money receipts, as 26. 1098 (early i/A.D.) ἀποχὴν θέλω λαβεῖν, “1 wish to get a receipt,” 20. 2113 (A.D. 134) ἀλλήλ[οις] ἀποχὰς τούς τε διδόντας καὶ τοὺς λαμβάν[ο]ντας, ‘‘that payer and payee shall mutually give receipts’’ (Edd.). Wilcken Ostr. i. p. 109 has pointed out that in the case of all ostraca receipts known to him the writers were Romans, but see 7hed Ostr 1058…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

λαμβάνω (lambanō) — to take.

λαμβάνω,

future λήψομαι (λήψω only late, variant in [LXX]; Ionic dialect λάψομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialectfuture 2nd pers. singular λαψῇ [Refs 5th c.BC+], infinitive λαμψεῖσθαι [Refs 2nd c.BC+]aorist 2 ἔλᾰβον, Epic dialect ἔλλᾰβον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect Iterat. λάβεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; written λάβε in middle Ms. of [Refs 4th c.BC+] Attic dialectaccusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect εἴληφα [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect, Doric dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive λελαβήκειν [Refs]: pluperfect εἰλήφειν [Refs 5th c.BC+] (κατα-); Doric dialect perfect subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular (παρ-) λελόνβῃ [Refs] —middle, aorist 2 ἐλαβόμην, Epic dialect ἐλλ-, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect reduplicate λελαβέσθαι [Refs]:—passive, future ληφθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐλήφθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ἐλάφθην [Refs 5th…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

λαμβάνω

lambano

a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate

in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and

figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas

1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while

138 is more violent, to seize or remove)):--accept, + be amazed,

assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), +

forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).

see GREEK for 1209

see GREEK for 138

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

λαμβάνω

v.

I receive, take

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

λαμβάνω lambanō 258x

to take, take up, take in the hand, Mt. 10:38; 13:31, 33; to take on one’s self, sustain, Mt. 8:17; to take, seize, seize upon, Mt. 5:40; 21:34; Lk. 5:26; 1 Cor. 10:13; to catch, Lk. 5:5; 2 Cor. 12:16; to assume, put on, Phil. 2:7; to make a rightful or successful assumption of, Jn. 3:27; to conceive, Acts 28:15; to take by…

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Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

λαμβάνω from Root ΛΑΒ The orig. sense of the word is two-fold, one (more active) to take, and the other (more passive) to receive

to take:

to take hold of, grasp, seize, Hom., etc.; the part seized in gen., the whole in acc., τὴν πτέρυγος λάβεν caught her by the wing, Il.; γούνων λάβε κούρην Od., etc.:—then, with gen. of part only, ποδῶν, γούνων, κόρυθος λάβεν took hold of the feet, etc., Il.

to take by violence, seize, carry off as prize or booty, Hom.

λ. δίκην, ποινάς, Lat. sumere poenas, to exact punishment, Eur., etc.; v. infr. II. 3.

of passions, feelings, etc., to seize, Hom., etc.; of fever and sudden illnesses, to attack, Hdt., attic

of a deity, to seize, possess, τινά Hdt.: of darkness, and the like, to occupy, possess, Aesch.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-FDI-3P — Verb · future · middle deponent · indicative · third person · plural
future middle deponent indicative — an action still to come.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-FDI-3P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Future Voice: middle Deponent Mood: Indicative Person: third Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
18%having taken
having taken18% · 48×receive8% · 20×having received7% · 18×took6% · 16×take4% · 11×receiving4% · 10×receives4% · 10×do take3% · 9×other renderings46% · 123×

265 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 76 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 258 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
αὐτόςλαμβάνωI receive, takeλέγωI say, speak
οὐNeg
καίand, even, also,ὅςἄνθρωποςa man, one of th
αὐτός
δέbut, on the otheεἰςἐσθίωI eat
ὅς
σίναπιmustardζύμηleaven, fermentδιακονίαwaiting at table
Article the
γάρforσύθεόςGod, a god
λαμβάνωwill receive258×
what comes after →
Article the
ἄρτοςbread, a loaf, fβιβλίονa papyrus rollχάραγμαsculpture, a sta
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theἀναγγέλλωI announce, makeζωήlife
αὐτός
καίand, even, also,εἰςσύ
πνεῦμαwind, breath, spirit
ἅγιοςset apart, holy,δουλείαslavery, bondageυἱοθεσίαadoption
γυνήa woman, wife, my la
ἐγκρύπτωI hide in, mix wκαίand, even, also,κρύπτωI hide, conceal,

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

Concordanceλαμβάνω · 258× in the New Testament
Matthew John Acts Revelation Luke Mark Hebrews 1 Corinthians Romans 2 Corinthians James 1 John

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament21 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 650 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 54c. AD 40

εἶθ’, οἷα φιλεῖ, προσπεριειργάζετο, τίς ἡ τῶν ὁρατῶν δὴ τούτων οὐσία καὶ εἰ ἀγένητοι πεφύκασιν ἢ γενέσεως ἔλαβον ἀρχὴν καὶ τίς ὁ τρόπος τῆς κινήσεως καὶ τίνες αἱ αἰτίαι δι’ ὧν ἕκαστα οἰκονομεῖται·

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

ὡς Ἅβραμος ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἀσσυρίους ἐκστρατεύσας ἐνίκησε καὶ τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους τῶν Σοδομιτῶν ἔσωσε καὶ τὴν λείαν ἣν ἔλαβον ἀφείλετο.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.5c. AD 100

λογισάμενος οὖν τοῦτο, ὅτι ἐὰν μελήσῃ μοι περὶ ὑμῶν τοῦ μέρος τι μεταδοῦναι ἀφ̓ οὗ ἔλαβον, ὅτι ἔσται μοι τοιούτοις πνεύμασιν ὑπηρετήσαντι εἰς μισθόν, ἐσπούδασα κατὰ μικρὸν ὑμῖν πέμπειν, ἵνα μετὰ τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν τελείαν ἔχητε τὴν γνῶσιν.

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. BC 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 1st c. AD
P.Gen. 1 20Pathyris110 BC

Λατοπολίτου, ἣν ἐωνήσατο ἐκ βασιλικοῦ ἐν τῶι ε ἔτει πρὸς τὰ ταύτης ἐκφόρια, καὶ λαβὼν τὴν εἰθισμένην διαγραφὴν ἐπικεχωρηκέναι ταύτηι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δ μερίδα, ὃς καὶ παρὼν ἐπὶ τοῦ

P.Bad. 2 3Pathyris110 BC

Λατοπολίτου, ἣν ἐωνήσατο ἐκ βασιλικοῦ ἐν τῷ πέμπτωι ἔτει πρὸς τὰ τῆς γῆς ἐκφόρια λαβὼν τὴν εἰθισμένην διαγραφήν. ὁ Ἁρκοννῆσις ἐπικεχώρηκεν ταύτῃ τὴν τετάρτην μερίδα πρὸς πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δέκα

P.Grenf. 2 37Pathyris109 BC

τῆς κώμης καθέσταται Πατσεοῦς Πατῆτος ὁ τὴν ἐντολὴν ἐπιδεικνὺς χειρογραφήσας ὡς εἴθισται καὶ διαστολὴν λαβὼν προ

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
περισσότερονperissos more excessive G4055 Adjective · accusative · singular · neuter
25× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
excessive
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

περισσότερος (perissoteros) — more excessive.

Included with: περισσός,

Attic dialect περιττός, ή, όν, (from περί, as ἔπισσαι from ἐπί, μέτασσαι from μετά) beyond the regular number or size, prodigious, δῶρα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; στάθμα, uncertain meaning, see at {ἕλκω} [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. out of the common, extraordinary, strange, ἔ τι περισσὸν εἰδείη if he has any signal knowledge, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; εἴ τι φρονεῖς καί τι περισσὸν ἔχεις Philisc.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴδια καὶ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρᾶξις π. [Refs]; τί π. ποιεῖτ; [NT+4th c.BC+]; συνανθρωπίζον.. πάντων περισσότατον, of the dog, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; in Literature, striking, τὸ περιττόν, as a quality of οἱ τοῦ Σωκράτους λόγοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ σοφὰ καὶ τὰ π. refinements, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to κοινὸς καὶ δημώδης, [Refs 3rd c.AD+] (but also…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

περισσότερος

perissoteros

comparative of 4053; more superabundant (in number, degree or

character):--more abundant, greater (much) more, overmuch.

see GREEK for 4053

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

περισσότερος, τέρα, τερον

Adj

greater, more

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

περισσότερος perissoteros 16x

comparative adj. from περισσός, greater, more, Mk. 12:40; Lk. 20:47; even more, Lk. 12:48; 1 Cor. 15:10; even more, so much more, Mk. 7:36

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adj-ASN-C — Adjective · accusative · singular · neuter
accusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

A-ASN-C Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter Degree: Comparative

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
100%more excessive
more excessive100% · 10×

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

those devouring the houses of the widows and as a pretext at great length praying, These will receive more excessive judgment.
κρίμα.¶krima judgment. G2917 Noun · accusative · singular · neuter
27× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
rarer in Mark than elsewhere in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Judgment means a decision made for or against someone, like in a court. In the Bible, it often refers to God's judgment, as seen in Romans 2:2 and 2 Peter 2:3. It can also mean condemnation or damnation.
Amplified meaning
judgment, decision against
Tyndale gloss
judgment
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word κρίμα (krima) is derived from κρίνω (krino) and primarily means 'judgment' or 'decision.' It encompasses various contexts, including legal decisions, condemnations, and God's judgment, appearing in several New Testament verses such as Matthew 7:2 and Romans 2:2. Some lexicons note its use in a forensic sense, while others emphasize its theological implications.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

κρίμα (Bl., § 27, 2), -τος, τό

(< κρίνω),

[in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּט;]

the issue of a judicial process, hence,

judgment, the decision passed on the faults of others: Mt 7:2; in forensic sense, c. gen. pun., Lk 24:20; esp. of the judgment of God, Ro 2:2 5:16 11:33 (ICC, in l.), II Pe 2:3, Ju 4; κ. λαμβάι εσθαι, Mt 23:13 (Rec., R, mg.), Mk 12:40, Lk 20:47, Ro 13:2, Ja 3:1; ἔχειν, I Ti…

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

κρίμα [ἃ TWH] or κρῖμα [L Tr (more commonly) ] (on the accent οἵ. W. p. 50; Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch. p. 40 sq. [who gives the preference to κρίμα, as do Bttm. 73 (64); Cobet (N. T. ad fid. ete. p. 49 sq.); Fritzsche (Rom. vol. i. 96,107); al.; “videtur ζ antiquitati Graecae, i Alexandrinae aetati placuisse,” ΤᾺ Proleg. to Sept.ed. 4 p. xxx.; on the accent in extant codd. see Tif. Proleg. p.101; ef. esp. Lobeck, Paralip. p. 418]),-ros, τό, (fr. κρίνω, 4. ν.; a8 κλίμα fr. κλίνω), [ Aeschyl. down], Sept. very often for yaw; 1. adecree: plur., rod θεοῦ, Ro. xi. 33 [4]. here (with A. V.) judgments; cf. Weiss in Meyer ad loc.] (Ps. exviii. (exix.) 75). 2. judgment; i. 6. condemnation of wrong, the decision (whether severe or mild) which one passes on the faults of others: κρίματί τινι κρίνειν, Mt. vii. 2. In a forensic sense, the sentence of a judge: with a gen. of the punishment to which…

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

κρίμα. Κρίμα (on the accent, see Proleg. p. 46) = ‘‘legal decision” is found in P Petr III. 267(iii/B.c.) το]ὺς τοπάρχ[ςους] κρίματα καθήκει εἰς τοὺς φόρους, ‘it is (not) the duty of the Toparchs to give decisions regarding the taxes” (Edd.), 76. 36 (a) verso (iii/B.C.) δεήσει συντελεῖσθαι τὰ κατὰ τὸ [κρίμα] ἐὰν δέηι κρίμα, “(the dioiketes) shall require the legal decision to be carried out, if such a decision be necessary’’ (Edd.). Cf. also the restoration in OGZS 33510 (ii/i B.c.), where αὐτ[οὶ ἐ]πιδεξάμενοι τὴν κρίσιν [is followed after an hiatus by ἐφε]να[ι τὰ κρίματα ἑαυτοῖς. From denoting ‘‘judgment,” ‘‘sentence,”’ the word came to denote the ‘‘offence ” for which one is sentenced, and hence in ΜΟΥ is frequently used = ‘‘sin,” as in the song entitled ‘‘ The Confessor,” where the penitent asks—£opoAdya pe, TA κρίματά pov para pe, “‘confess me; ask me about my sins,” and receives…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κρίμα (krima) — judgment.

κρίμα, ατος, τό,

(κρίνω) decision, judgement, [NT+3rd c.BC+]; verdict on a literary work, [Refs 1st c.BC+]

2. decree, resolution, [Refs 1st c.BC+]

3. legal decision, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; decision of arbitrators, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; especially sentence, condemnation, [LXX+NT]

II. matter for judgement, question, [Refs 5th c.BC+].

II.2. law-suit, [LXX+NT]

III. ={κρίσις}, judging, judgement, NT.John.9.39, [NT], etc. [ῖ in A. [prev. cited] (nisi to be read κρεῖμα): ῐ in post-classical poetry; frequently written κρίμα in codices]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

κρίμα

krima

from 2919; a decision (the function or the effect, for or against

("crime")):--avenge, condemned, condemnation, damnation, + go to law,

judgment.

see GREEK for 2919

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κρίμα, ατος, τό

n.n.

a judgment, verdict, lawsuit

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κρίμα krima 27x

judgment; a sentence, award, Mt. 7:2; a judicial sentence, Lk. 23:40; 24:20; Rom. 2:2; 5:16; an adverse sentence, Mt. 23:14; Rom. 13:2; 1 Tim. 5:12; Jas. 3:1; judgment, administration of justice, Jn. 9:39; Acts 24:25; execution of justice, 1 Pet. 4:17; a lawsuit; 1 Cor. 6:7; in NT…

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

N-ASN Part of Speech: Noun Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Is put, in Mt 5:21,22, for a court of judgment, a tribunal, namely, the tribunal of seven judges, which Josephus mentions as existing in every city, and which decided causes of minor importance. See under SYNAGOGUE.

For the expression, "judgment-hall," see PRETORIUM.

THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, for which the word "judgment" alone is sometimes used, is that great day, at the end of the world and of time, when Christ shall sit as judge over all the universe, and when every individual of the human race will be judged and recompensed according to his works, whether they be good or evil. The time of its coming and its duration are known only to God. It will break upon the world suddenly, and with a glorious but awful majesty. It will witness the perfect vindication of all the ways of God. The revelation of his justice, appalling but unstained…

Nave's Topical Bible

→ THE GENERAL 1Ch 16:33; Job 14:17; 21:30; 31:13-15; Ps 9:7; 50:3-6; 96:13; 98:9; Ec 3:17; 11:9; 12:14; Eze 18:20-28; Da 7:9,10; Am 4:12; Mt 3:12; 7:22,23; 8:29; 10:15; 11:22; 12:36,37,41,42; 13:30,40-43,49,50; 16:27; 22:11-13; 23:14; 25:1-46; Mr 4:22; 8:38; 13:32; Lu 3:17; 10:10-14; 11:31,32; 12:2-5; 13:24-29; 19:12-26; 20:45-47;

Across the New Testament15 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 138 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
Clement of Rome Philo of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Preliminary Studies 86c. AD 40

τὰ κρίματά μου ποιήσετε, καὶ τὰ προστάγματά μου φυλάξεσθε, πορεύεσθε ἐν αὐτοῖς·

Clement of RomeFirst Clement 11.2c. AD 96

συνεξελθούσης γὰρ αὐτῷ τῆς γυναικὸς ἑτερογνώμονος ὑπαρχούσης καὶ οὐκ ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ, εἰς τοῦτο σημεῖον ἐτέθη, ὥστε γενέσθαι αὐτὴν στήλην ἁλὸς ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης, εἰς τὸ γνωστὸν εἶναι πᾶσιν, ὅτι οἱ δίψυχοι καὶ οἱ διστάζοντες περὶ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμεως…

Ignatius of AntiochThe Letters of Ignatius 1.11.1c. AD 110

λοιπὸν αἰσχυνθῶμεν, φοβηθῶμεν τὴν μακροθυμίαν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα μὴ ἡμῖν εἰς κρίμα γένηται.

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. BC 4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Petr. 3 36 a VoArsinoites219 BC

τῶν ἀποδεδειγμένων ἐπισκόπων, οἷς ἂν ὁ διοικητὴς συντάσσηι ἢ δεήσει συντελεῖσθαι τὰ κατὰ τὸ κρίμα. ἐὰν δὲ ἦι κρίμα ἃ πρὸς Δημήτρίον καὶ Ἀπολλώνιον συνγέγραφα ἐπὶ Διονυσιοδώρου τοῦ ἐπιμελητεύσαντος

JJP 18 (1974), p. 52Tanyaithis (Apollonopolites Heptakomias)AD 113–AD 120

ι τῶι πέρυσι ἐνιαυτῶι … ἀδικεῖν αὐτοὺς καὶ εφρ … … … … ο κρίματος ὠνειδι … … παστοφόρους ὄντας καὶ παρεγ … … … οσου καὶ Κλαυδίου Ἀγριππείνου

P.Oxy. 47 3361OxyrhynchosAD 154–AD 161

θεοῦ Τραιανοῦ Παρθικοῦ υἱωνὸς θεοῦ Νέρουα ἔκγονος Τίτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβὴς τὸ κρίμα ἀπεφανόμην παραλημφθεῖσιν Μάρκῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Οὐήρῳ Καίσαρι καὶ Λουκίῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Κομμόδῳ υἱοῖς μου καὶ τοῖς

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