Greek adverb · G230
ἀληθῶς
alethosal-ay-thoce'
truly
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: alēthōs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G230is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G230
truly
The King James renders it: indeed, surely, of a surety, truly, of a (in) truth, verily, very.
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
alethos is rendered "truly". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Seven of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 14:33Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
The first use
Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
Matthew 14:33ἀληθῶς
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
- truly15
- Of a truth1
- Surely1
- truthfully1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ἀληθῶς18
The grammar of each form
- adverb18ADV
Matthew
three uses
Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Truly
After a little while, those standing nearby came up to Peter. “Surely you are one of them,” they said, “for your accent gives you away.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Surely
When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Truly
Mark
two uses
But he denied it again. After a little while, those standing nearby said once more to Peter, “Surely you are one of them, for you too are a Galilean.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Truly
When the centurion standing there in front of Jesus saw how He had breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Truly
Luke
three uses
But I tell you truthfully, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truthfully
Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Of a truth
“Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Truly
John
seven uses
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: Truly
On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
Acts
one use
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
1 Thessalonians
one use
And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
1 John
one use
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
- ἀληθῶςalethosadverbtagged: truly
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.