Greek noun (masculine) · G2447
ἰός
iosee-os'
an arrow.; rust; poison
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: iós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2447is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2447
rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents)
The King James renders it: poison, rust.
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
ios is rendered "an arrow.; rust; poison". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "an arrow.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
Romans 3:13ἰὸς
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 three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: an arrow., and rust, and poison.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an arrow. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereRomans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit… |
| rust | Tagged as
| WhereJames 5:3Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your… |
| poisonfiguratively, Rom.3:13 (Ps. l.with), Jas.3:8.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereRomans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit… |
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 3, 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
- ἰὸς2
- ἰοῦ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
Romans
one use
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- ἰὸςiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: venom
James
two uses
but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
- ἰοῦiounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of poison
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
- ἰὸςiosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rust
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.