Greek verb · G226
ἀληθεύω
aletheuoal-ayth-yoo'-o
be truthful
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: alētheúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G226is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G226
to be true (in doctrine and profession)
The King James renders it: speak (tell) the truth.
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
aletheuo is rendered "be truthful". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Galatians 4:16Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 4:16ἀληθεύων
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 Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Speaking the truth1
- speaking truth1
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
- ἀληθεύοντες1
- ἀληθεύων1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PAP-NPM
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
Galatians
one use
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
- ἀληθεύωνaletheuonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: speaking truth
Ephesians
one use
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
- ἀληθεύοντεςaletheuontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Speaking the truth
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.