Greek noun (masculine) · G231
ἁλιεύς
halieushal-ee-yoos'
fisherman
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: halieús
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G231is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G231
a sailor (as engaged on the salt water), i.e. (by implication) a fisher
The King James renders it: fisher(-man).
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
halieus is rendered "fisherman". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:18As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
The first use
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Matthew 4:18ἁλιεῖς
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
- fishermen2
- fishers2
- the fishermen1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἁλιεύω | halieuo | to fish | Uses1 |
All 5, 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
- ἁλιεῖς5
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural2N-APM
Matthew
two uses
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
- ἁλιεῖςhalieisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: fishermen
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
- ἁλιεῖςhalieisnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: fishers
Mark
two uses
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
- ἁλιεῖςhalieisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: fishermen
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
- ἁλιεῖςhalieisnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: fishers
Luke
one use
He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.
- ἁλιεῖςhalieisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: the fishermen
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.