Greek noun (feminine) · G173
ἄκανθα
akanthaak'-an-thah
a thorn
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ákantha
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G173is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G173
a thorn
The King James renders it: thorn.
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
akantha is rendered "a thorn". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:16By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:16ἀκανθῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- thorns14
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀκάνθινος | akanthinos | thorny | Uses2 |
All 14, 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
- ἀκάνθας6
- ἀκανθῶν5
- ἄκανθαι3
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural6N-APF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural5N-GPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural3N-NPF
Matthew
five uses
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
- ἀκανθῶνakanthonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- ἀκάνθαςakanthasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
- ἄκανθαιakanthainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- ἀκάνθαςakanthasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
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!”
- ἀκανθῶνakanthonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
Mark
three uses
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
- ἀκάνθαςakanthasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
- ἄκανθαιakanthainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
- ἀκάνθαςakanthasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
Luke
four uses
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
- ἀκανθῶνakanthonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
- ἀκανθῶνakanthonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
- ἄκανθαιakanthainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
- ἀκάνθαςakanthasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
John
one use
The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
- ἀκανθῶνakanthonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
Hebrews
one use
But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
- ἀκάνθαςakanthasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: thorns
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.