Greek noun (masculine) · G2783
κῆρυξ
keryxkay'-roox
preacher
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kēryx
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2783is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2783
a herald, i.e. of divine truth (especially of the gospel)
The King James renders it: preacher.
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
keryx is rendered "preacher". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Timothy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Timothy 2:7For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
1 Timothy 2:7κῆρυξ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in 1 Timothy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a herald3
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
- κῆρυξ2
- κήρυκα1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
1 Timothy
one use
For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
- κῆρυξkeruxnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a herald
2 Timothy
one use
to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
- κῆρυξkeruxnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a herald
2 Peter
one use
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
- κήρυκαkerukanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a herald
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.