Greek adverb · G4139
πλησίον
plesionplay-see'-on
near/neighbor
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: plēsíon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4139is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4139
(adverbially) close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. fellow (as man, countryman, Christian or friend)
The King James renders it: near, neighbour.
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
plesion is rendered "near/neighbor". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:43You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
Matthew 5:43πλησίον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine 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
- neighbour15
- a neighbour1
- nearby1
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 17, 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
- πλησίον16
- πλησίον;¶1
The grammar of each form
- adverb16ADV
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
three uses
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Mark
two uses
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Luke
three uses
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: a neighbour
John
one use
So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
- πλησίονplesionnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: nearby
Acts
one use
But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Romans
three uses
The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Galatians
one use
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
Ephesians
one use
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
James
two uses
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
- πλησίονplesionadverbtagged: neighbour
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
- πλησίον;¶plesionadverbtagged: neighbour
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.