Greek noun (feminine) · G3153
ματαιότης
mataiotesmat-ah-yot'-ace
futility
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mataiótēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3153is 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) · G3153
inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity
The King James renders it: vanity.
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
mataiotes is rendered "futility". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:20ματαιότητι
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 Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- futility2
- of vanity1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μάταιος | mataios | futile | Uses6 |
| ματαιόω | mataioo | to make futile | Uses1 |
| ματαιολογία | mataiologia | babble | Uses1 |
| ματαιολόγος | mataiologos | babbler | Uses1 |
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
- ματαιότητι2
- ματαιότητος1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Romans
one use
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
- ματαιότητιmataiotetinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: futility
Ephesians
one use
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- ματαιότητιmataiotetinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: futility
2 Peter
one use
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
- ματαιότητοςmataiotetosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of vanity
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.