Greek noun (feminine) · G4464
ῥάβδος
rhabdoshrab'-dos
rod
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rhábdos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4464is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4464
a stick or wand (as a cudgel, a cane or a baton of royalty)
The King James renders it: rod, sceptre, staff.
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
rhabdos is rendered "rod". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 10:10Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
Matthew 10:10ῥάβδον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's twelve uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a rod4
- staff3
- a staff2
- scepter2
- as a staff1
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 12, 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
- ῥάβδῳ5
- ῥάβδον3
- ῥάβδος3
- ῥάβδου1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular5N-DSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Matthew
one use
Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
- ῥάβδονrhabdonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a staff
Mark
one use
He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—
- ῥάβδονrhabdonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a staff
Luke
one use
“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
- ῥάβδονrhabdonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: staff
1 Corinthians
one use
Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
- ῥάβδῳrhabdonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: a rod
Hebrews
four uses
But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- ῥάβδοςrhabdosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: scepter
- ῥάβδοςrhabdosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: scepter
containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
- ῥάβδοςrhabdosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: staff
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
- ῥάβδουrhabdounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: staff
Revelation
four uses
He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.
- ῥάβδῳrhabdonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: a rod
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.
- ῥάβδῳrhabdonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: as a staff
And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
- ῥάβδῳrhabdonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: a rod
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
- ῥάβδῳrhabdonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: a rod
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.