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Greek noun (masculine) · G2790

κιθαρῳδός

kitharoidoskith-ar-o'-dos

harpist

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kitharōidós

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2790is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2790

a lyre-singer(-player), i.e. harpist

The King James renders it: harper.

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

kitharoidos is rendered "harpist". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 14:2And 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.

The first use

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.

Revelation 14:2κιθαρῳδῶν

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.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • of harpists2

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.

κιθάραkitharaharpUses4
κιθαρίζωkitharizoto play the harpUses2

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

  • κιθαρῳδῶν2

The grammar of each form

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2N-GPM

Revelation

two uses
  • 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.

    Revelation 14:2

    • κιθαρῳδῶνkitharodonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of harpists
  • And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.

    Revelation 18:22

    • κιθαρῳδῶνkitharodonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of harpists

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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