Greek noun (feminine) · G2788
κιθάρα
kitharakith-ar'-ah
harp
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kithára
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2788is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2788
a lyre
The King James renders it: harp.
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
kithara is rendered "harp". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 14:7Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct?
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct?
1 Corinthians 14:7κιθάρα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- harps2
- a harp1
- harp1
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
- κιθάρα1
- κιθάραις1
- κιθάραν1
- κιθάρας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
1 Corinthians
one use
Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct?
- κιθάραkitharanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: harp
Revelation
three uses
When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- κιθάρανkitharannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a harp
And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
- κιθάραιςkitharaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: harps
And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
- κιθάραςkitharasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: harps
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.