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Greek adjective · G1188

δεξιός

dexiosdex-ee-os'

right

53 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: dexiós

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1188is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1188

the right side or (feminine) hand (as that which usually takes)

The King James renders it: right (hand, side).

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

dexios is rendered "right". It stands 53 times in the Greek text, across thirteen books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Matthew 5:29δεξιὸς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 14 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • right hand33
  • right19
  • right hands1

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.

δεξιολάβοςdexiolabosslingerUses1

All 53, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 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

  • δεξιῶν22
  • δεξιᾷ13
  • δεξιὰν4
  • δεξιᾶς4
  • δεξιά2
  • δεξιὰ2
  • δεξιόν2
  • δεξιὰς1
  • δεξιοῖς1
  • δεξιὸν1
  • δεξιὸς1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural22A-GPN
  • adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular13A-DSF
  • adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular4A-ASF
  • adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4A-GSF
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3A-NSF
  • adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular2A-ASN
  • adjective · accusative (object) · feminine plural1A-APF
  • adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
  • adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
  • adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1A-DPN
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM

Matthew

twelve uses
  • If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

    Matthew 5:29

    • δεξιὸςdexiosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: right
  • And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

    Matthew 5:30

    • δεξιάdexiaadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

    Matthew 5:39

    • δεξιὰνdexianadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

    Matthew 6:3

    • δεξιάdexiaadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • “What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.”

    Matthew 20:21

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • “You will indeed drink My cup,” Jesus said. “But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom My Father has prepared them.”

    Matthew 20:23

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’

    Matthew 22:44

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.

    Matthew 25:33

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

    Matthew 25:34

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • “You have said it yourself,” Jesus answered. “But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

    Matthew 26:64

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

    Matthew 27:29

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right hand and the other on His left.

    Matthew 27:38

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand

Mark

six uses
  • They answered, “Grant that one of us may sit at Your right hand and the other at Your left in Your glory.”

    Mark 10:37

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right
  • But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

    Mark 10:40

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’

    Mark 12:36

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • “I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

    Mark 14:62

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.

    Mark 15:27

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

    Mark 16:5

    • δεξιοῖςdexioisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: right

Luke

six uses
  • Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

    Luke 1:11

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right
  • On another Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

    Luke 6:6

    • δεξιὰdexiaadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

    Luke 20:42

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

    Luke 22:50

    • δεξιόνdexionadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: right
  • But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

    Luke 22:69

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.

    Luke 23:33

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right

John

two uses
  • Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

    John 18:10

    • δεξιόνdexionadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: right
  • He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

    John 21:6

    • δεξιὰdexiaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: right

Acts

seven uses
  • David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

    Acts 2:25

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

    Acts 2:33

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

    Acts 2:34

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • Taking him by the right hand, Peter helped him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

    Acts 3:7

    • δεξιᾶςdexiasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

    Acts 5:31

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

    Acts 7:55

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

    Acts 7:56

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right

Romans

one use
  • Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

    Romans 8:34

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand

2 Corinthians

one use
  • in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

    2 Corinthians 6:7

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand

Galatians

one use
  • And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

    Galatians 2:9

    • δεξιὰςdexiasadjective · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: right hands

Ephesians

one use
  • which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

    Ephesians 1:20

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand

Colossians

one use
  • Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

    Colossians 3:1

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand

Hebrews

five uses
  • The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

    Hebrews 1:3

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?

    Hebrews 1:13

    • δεξιῶνdexionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: right hand
  • The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

    Hebrews 8:1

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

    Hebrews 10:12

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

    Hebrews 12:2

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand

1 Peter

one use
  • who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

    1 Peter 3:22

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand

Revelation

nine uses
  • He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

    Revelation 1:16

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

    Revelation 1:17

    • δεξιὰνdexianadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

    Revelation 1:20

    • δεξιᾶςdexiasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

    Revelation 2:1

    • δεξιᾷdexiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.

    Revelation 5:1

    • δεξιὰνdexianadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne.

    Revelation 5:7

    • δεξιᾶςdexiasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: right hand
  • He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

    Revelation 10:2

    • δεξιὸνdexionadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: right
  • Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.

    Revelation 10:5

    • δεξιὰνdexianadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: right
  • And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

    Revelation 13:16

    • δεξιᾶςdexiasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: right

Where it leads

Studies that open this word1

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 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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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