Greek noun (feminine) · G2463
ἶρις
irisee'-ris
Iris, the messenger of the gods.; a rainbow or halo; The plant Iris (cf. Ex., l.with).†
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: îris
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2463is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2463
a rainbow ("iris")
The King James renders it: rainbow.
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
iris is rendered "Iris, the messenger of the gods.; a rainbow or halo; The plant Iris (cf. Ex., l.with).†". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "Iris, the messenger of the gods.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 4:3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
The first use
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
Revelation 4:3ἶρις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: Iris, the messenger of the gods., and a rainbow or halo, and The plant Iris (cf. Ex., l.with).†.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Iris, the messenger of the gods. | Tagged as
| WhereRevelation 4:3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian… |
| a rainbow or haloRev.4:3 10:1. | Tagged as
| WhereRevelation 4:3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian… |
| The plant Iris (cf. Ex., l.with).† | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
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 2, 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
- ἶρις2
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
Revelation
two uses
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
- ἶριςirisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a rainbow
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.
- ἶριςirisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: rainbow
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.