Greek adjective · G4550
σαπρός
saprossap-ros'
rotten
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: saprós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4550is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4550
rotten, i.e. worthless (literally or morally)
The King James renders it: bad, corrupt.
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
sapros is rendered "rotten". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Matthew 7:17σαπρὸν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bad6
- the bad1
- unwholesome1
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 8, 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
- σαπρὸν4
- σαπρόν2
- σαπρὰ1
- σαπρὸς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3A-NSN
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular2A-ASM
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular1A-ASN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Matthew
five uses
Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
- σαπρὸνsapronadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: the bad
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
- σαπρὸνsapronadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: bad
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
- σαπρὸνsapronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: bad
- σαπρόνsapronadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: bad
When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the bad away.
- σαπρὰsapraadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: bad
Luke
two uses
No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
- σαπρόνsapronadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: bad
- σαπρὸνsapronadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: bad
Ephesians
one use
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- σαπρὸςsaprosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: unwholesome
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.