Greek noun (feminine) · G1504
εἰκών
eikoni-kone'
image
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eikṓn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1504is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1504
a likeness, i.e. (literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively) representation, resemblance
The King James renders it: image.
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
eikon is rendered "image". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 22:20“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
Matthew 22:20εἰκὼν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's twenty-three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- image18
- likeness2
- an image1
- form1
- of an image1
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 23, 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
- εἰκόνα10
- εἰκὼν6
- εἰκόνι4
- εἰκόνος3
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular10N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular6N-NSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular4N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
Matthew
one use
“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
- εἰκὼνeikonnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: likeness
Mark
one use
So they brought it, and He asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.
- εἰκὼνeikonnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: likeness
Luke
one use
“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
Romans
two uses
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- εἰκόνοςeikonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of an image
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- εἰκόνοςeikonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: image
1 Corinthians
three uses
A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
- εἰκὼνeikonnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: image
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
2 Corinthians
two uses
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- εἰκὼνeikonnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: image
Colossians
two uses
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
- εἰκὼνeikonnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: image
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
Hebrews
one use
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: form
Revelation
ten uses
Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an image
The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.
- εἰκόνιeikoninoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: image
- εἰκὼνeikonnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: image
- εἰκόνιeikoninoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: image
And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand,
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
- εἰκόνοςeikonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: image
So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
- εἰκόνιeikoninoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: image
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- εἰκόνιeikoninoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: image
Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
- εἰκόναeikonanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: image
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.