Greek noun (feminine) · G4582
σελήνη
selenesel-ay'-nay
moon
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: selḗnē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4582is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4582
the moon
The King James renders it: moon.
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
selene is rendered "moon". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
Matthew 24:29σελήνη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine 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
- moon8
- of moon1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σεληνιάζομαι | seleniazomai | be epileptic | Uses2 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- σελήνη5
- σελήνης3
- σελήνῃ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular5N-NSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Matthew
one use
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- σελήνηselenenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: moon
Mark
one use
But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
- σελήνηselenenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: moon
Luke
one use
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- σελήνῃselenenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: moon
Acts
one use
The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.
- σελήνηselenenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: moon
1 Corinthians
one use
The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
- σελήνηςselenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of moon
Revelation
four uses
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
- σελήνηselenenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: moon
Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
- σελήνηςselenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: moon
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
- σελήνηselenenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: moon
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
- σελήνηςselenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: moon
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.