Greek particle · G1211
δή
deday
With verbs; With pronouns
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1211is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1211
a particle of emphasis or explicitness; now, then, etc.
The King James renders it: also, and, doubtless, now, therefore.
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
de is rendered "With verbs; With pronouns". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "With verbs".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: With verbs, and With pronouns.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| With verbsimperat. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 2:15When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another… |
| With pronounsὃ δή, now this is he who, Mat.13:23.† (AS) | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 13:23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it… |
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- δὴ4
- δή1
- δήπου1
The grammar of each form
- particle5PRT
- PRT + G4225=ADV1PRT + G4225=ADV
Matthew
one use
But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
- δὴdeparticletagged: indeed
Luke
one use
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
- δὴdeparticletagged: indeed
Acts
two uses
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- δήdeparticletagged: then
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
- δὴdeparticletagged: indeed
1 Corinthians
one use
you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
- δὴdeparticletagged: therefore
Hebrews
one use
For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.
- δήπουdepouPRT + G4225=ADVtagged: surely somewhere
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 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.