Greek noun (neuter) · G3997
πένθος
penthospen'-thos
grief
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pénthos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3997is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3997
grief
The King James renders it: mourning, sorrow.
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
penthos is rendered "grief". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.James 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
The first use
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
James 4:9πένθος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's five 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
- mourning3
- misery2
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.
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
- πένθος5
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular3N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2N-NSN
James
one use
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
- πένθοςpenthosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: mourning
Revelation
four uses
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
- πένθοςpenthosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: misery
- πένθοςpenthosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: mourning
Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- πένθοςpenthosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: misery
‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- πένθοςpenthosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: mourning
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.