Greek noun (masculine) · G2965
κύων
kyonkoo'-ohn
dog
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kýōn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2965is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2965
a dog ("hound") (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: dog.
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
kyon is rendered "dog". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:6Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 7:6κυσὶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dogs4
- A dog1
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 5, 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
- κύνες2
- κύνας1
- κυσὶν1
- κύων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Matthew
one use
Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
- κυσὶνkusinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: dogs
Luke
one use
and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
- κύνεςkunesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: dogs
Philippians
one use
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
- κύναςkunasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: dogs
2 Peter
one use
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
- κύωνkuonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: A dog
Revelation
one use
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- κύνεςkunesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: dogs
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.