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Greek noun (masculine) · G4757

στρατιώτης

stratiotesstrat-ee-o'-tace

soldier

26 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: stratiṓtēs

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4757is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 8
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4757

a camper-out, i.e. a (common) warrior (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: soldier.

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

stratiotes is rendered "soldier". It stands 26 times in the Greek text, across six books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:9For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
  • The Greek text spells it eight different ways.

The first use

For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

Matthew 8:9στρατιώτας

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirteen of the word's twenty-six uses are in Acts.

The other 21 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • soldiers21
  • soldier3
  • a soldier1
  • the soldiers1

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.

στρατηγόςstrategosofficer/magistrateUses10
στράτευμαstrateumatroopsUses8
στρατεύομαιstrateuomaito battleUses7
στρατιάstratiaarmyUses2
στρατείαstrateiawarfareUses2
στρατολογέωstratologeoto enlistUses1
στρατόπεδονstratopedonarmy campUses1
στρατοπεδάρχηςstratopedarchescommanderUsesnot recorded

All 26, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

8 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

  • στρατιῶται9
  • στρατιώτας5
  • στρατιωτῶν5
  • στρατιώταις3
  • στρατιώτῃ1
  • στρατιώτῃ.¶1
  • στρατιώτην1
  • στρατιώτης1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural9N-NPM
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural5N-APM
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural5N-GPM
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural3N-DPM
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2N-DSM
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM

Matthew

three uses
  • For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

    Matthew 8:9

    • στρατιώταςstratiotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.

    Matthew 27:27

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money

    Matthew 28:12

    • στρατιώταιςstratiotaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers

Mark

one use
  • Then the soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.

    Mark 15:16

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: the soldiers

Luke

two uses
  • For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

    Luke 7:8

    • στρατιώταςstratiotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

    Luke 23:36

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers

John

six uses
  • The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

    John 19:2

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

    John 19:23

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
    • στρατιώτῃstratiotenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: soldier
  • So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.

    John 19:24

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.

    John 19:32

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

    John 19:34

    • στρατιωτῶνstratiotonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers

Acts

thirteen uses
  • When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.

    Acts 10:7

    • στρατιώτηνstratiotennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a soldier
  • He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

    Acts 12:4

    • στρατιωτῶνstratiotonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

    Acts 12:6

    • στρατιωτῶνstratiotonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

    Acts 12:18

    • στρατιώταιςstratiotaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

    Acts 21:32

    • στρατιώταςstratiotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
    • στρατιώταςstratiotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.

    Acts 21:35

    • στρατιωτῶνstratiotonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

    Acts 23:23

    • στρατιώταςstratiotasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.

    Acts 23:31

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

    Acts 27:31

    • στρατιώταιςstratiotaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.

    Acts 27:32

    • στρατιῶταιstratiotainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

    Acts 27:42

    • στρατιωτῶνstratiotonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: soldiers
  • When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

    Acts 28:16

    • στρατιώτῃ.¶stratiotenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: soldier

2 Timothy

one use
  • Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

    2 Timothy 2:3

    • στρατιώτηςstratiotesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: soldier

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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