Greek noun (masculine) · G2279
ἦχος
echosay'-khos
a noise, sound; a report
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ēchos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2279is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2279
a loud or confused noise ("echo"), i.e. roar; figuratively, a rumor
The King James renders it: fame, sound.
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
echos is rendered "a noise, sound; a report". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a noise, sound".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 4:37And the news about Jesus spread throughout the surrounding region.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And the news about Jesus spread throughout the surrounding region.
Luke 4:37ἦχος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a noise, sound, and a report.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a noise, soundAct.2:2; ἦ. θαλάσσης | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations… |
| a reportbefore πεφί, Luk.4:37.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 4:37And the news about Jesus spread throughout the surrounding region. |
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 4, 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
- ἦχος2
- ἤχους1
- ἤχῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1N-GSN
Luke
two uses
And the news about Jesus spread throughout the surrounding region.
- ἦχοςechosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: report
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- ἤχουςechousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: sound
Acts
one use
Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
- ἦχοςechosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a sound
Hebrews
one use
to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.
- ἤχῳechonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: to sound
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.