Greek noun (feminine) · G1394
δόσις
dosisdos'-is
properly, the act of giving; Objectively, a gift
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dósis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1394is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1394
a giving; by implication, (concretely) a gift
The King James renders it: gift, giving.
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
dosis is rendered "properly, the act of giving; Objectively, a gift". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Philippians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "properly, the act of giving".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Philippians 4:15And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving.
Philippians 4:15δόσεως
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Philippians.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: properly, the act of giving, and Objectively, a gift.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| properly, the act of givingPhp.4:15. | Tagged as
| WherePhilippians 4:15And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia… |
| Objectively, a giftJas.1:17.† | Tagged as
| WhereJames 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights… |
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 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- δόσεως1
- δόσις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Philippians
one use
And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving.
- δόσεωςdoseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of giving
James
one use
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- δόσιςdosisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: act of giving
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.