Greek adjective · G2338
θῆλυς
thelysthay'-loos
female
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thēlys
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2338is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2338
female
The King James renders it: female, woman.
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
thelys is rendered "female". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
Matthew 19:4θῆλυ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- female4
- females1
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 5, 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
- θῆλυ3
- θήλειαι1
- θηλείας1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular2A-ASN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1A-GSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1A-NPF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
Matthew
one use
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
- θῆλυtheluadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: female
Mark
one use
However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
- θῆλυtheluadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: female
Romans
two uses
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- θήλειαιtheleiaiadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: females
Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
- θηλείαςtheleiasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: female
Galatians
one use
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- θῆλυtheluadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: female
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.