Greek noun (neuter) · G4738
στῆθος
stethosstay'-thos
chest
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: stēthos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4738is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4738
the (entire external) bosom, i.e. chest
The King James renders it: breast.
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
stethos is rendered "chest". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 18:13But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
Luke 18:13στῆθος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two 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
- breast2
- bosom1
- breasts1
- chests1
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.
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
- στῆθος3
- στήθη2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular3N-ASN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural2N-APN
Luke
two uses
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
- στῆθοςstethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: breast
And when all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts.
- στήθηstethenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: breasts
John
two uses
Leaning back against Jesus, he asked, “Lord, who is it?”
- στῆθοςstethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: breast
Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. He was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper to ask, “Lord, who is going to betray You?”
- στῆθοςstethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: bosom
Revelation
one use
And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.
- στήθηstethenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: chests
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.