Greek noun (feminine) · G4723
στείρος
steirossti'-ros
barren
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: steíros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4723is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4723
"sterile"
The King James renders it: barren.
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
steiros is rendered "barren". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:7But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
Luke 1:7στεῖρα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- barren4
- O barren woman1
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 5, 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
- στεῖρα3
- στείρᾳ1
- στεῖραι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
- noun · vocative (address) · feminine singular1N-VSF
Luke
three uses
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
- στεῖραsteiranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: barren
Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
- στείρᾳsteiranoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: barren
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- στεῖραιsteirainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: barren
Galatians
one use
For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
- στεῖραsteiranoun · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: O barren woman
Hebrews
one use
By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.
- στεῖραsteiranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: barren
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.