Greek noun (masculine) · G4083
πῆχυς
pechyspay'-khoos
the forearm (Hom.).; As a measure of length, a cubit
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pēchys
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4083is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4083
the fore-arm, i.e. (as a measure) a cubit
The King James renders it: cubit.
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
pechys is rendered "the forearm (Hom.).; As a measure of length, a cubit". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "the forearm (Hom.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Matthew 6:27πῆχυν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Matthew.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: the forearm (Hom.)., and As a measure of length, a cubit.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the forearm (Hom.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 6:27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? |
| As a measure of length, a cubitMat.6:27, Luk.12:25, Jhn.21:8, Rev.21:17.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 6:27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? |
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.
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
- πῆχυν2
- πηχῶν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2N-GPM
Matthew
one use
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
- πῆχυνpechunnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: hour
Luke
one use
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
- πῆχυνpechunnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: hour
John
one use
The other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.
- πηχῶνpechonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: cubits
Revelation
one use
And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
- πηχῶνpechonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: cubits
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.