Greek noun (neuter) · G1119
γόνυ
gonygon-oo'
a knee
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: góny
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1119is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1119
the "knee"
The King James renders it: knee(X -l).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gony is rendered "a knee". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 15:19They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.
Mark 15:19γόνατα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's twelve uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- knees7
- knee4
- on knees1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γονυπετέω | gonypeteo | to kneel | Uses4 |
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- γόνατα7
- γόνυ3
- γόνασιν1
- γόνατά1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural8N-APN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1N-DPN
Mark
one use
They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
Luke
two uses
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
- γόνασινgonasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
Acts
four uses
Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: on knees
Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knee
But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
Romans
two uses
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- γόνυgonunoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: knee
It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
- γόνυgonunoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: knee
Ephesians
one use
... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
- γόνατάgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
Philippians
one use
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
- γόνυgonunoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: knee
Hebrews
one use
Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
- γόναταgonatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: knees
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.