Greek noun (masculine) · G2725
κατήγορος
kategoroskat-ay'-gor-os
accuser
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: katḗgoros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2725is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2725
against one in the assembly, i.e. a complainant at law; specially, Satan
The King James renders it: accuser.
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
kategoros is rendered "accuser". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 23:30When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.
Acts 23:30κατηγόροις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- accusers4
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- κατήγοροι1
- κατήγοροί1
- κατηγόροις1
- κατηγόρους1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
Acts
four uses
When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.
- κατηγόροιςkategoroisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: accusers
he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
- κατήγοροίkategoroinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: accusers
I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.
- κατηγόρουςkategorousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: accusers
But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.
- κατήγοροιkategoroinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: accusers
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.