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Greek verb · G5015

ταράσσω

tarassotar-as'-so

to trouble

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

Concordance spelling: tarássō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5015is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5015

to stir or agitate (roil water)

The King James renders it: trouble.

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

tarasso is rendered "to trouble". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across seven books.

  • Six of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:3When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Matthew 2:3ἐταράχθη

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

Where the word stands

Six of the word's seventeen uses are in John.

The other 20 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

  • troubled3
  • should be troubled2
  • was troubled2
  • agitating1
  • are troubling1
  • has been troubled1
  • he was troubled1
  • may be stirred1
  • shall you be troubled1
  • They stirred up1
  • they were troubled1
  • troubling1

and 1 more, 17 uses in all

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.

τάραχοςtarachosdisturbanceUses2
ταραχήtarachedisturbanceUsesnot recorded

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 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

  • ἐταράχθη3
  • ἐτάραξαν2
  • ἐταράχθησαν2
  • ταρασσέσθω2
  • ταράσσοντες2
  • ἐτάραξεν1
  • ταράσσων1
  • ταραχθῇ1
  • ταραχθῆτε1
  • τεταραγμένοι1
  • τετάρακται1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-API-3S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-API-3P
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
  • verb · present passive, command · 3rd person singular2V-PPM-3S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-APS-2P
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-APS-3S
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
  • verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-RPI-3S
  • verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-RPP-NPM

Matthew

two uses
  • When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

    Matthew 2:3

    • ἐταράχθηetarachtheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was troubled
  • When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.

    Matthew 14:26

    • ἐταράχθησανetarachthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were troubled

Mark

one use
  • for they all saw Him and were terrified. But Jesus spoke up at once: “Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

    Mark 6:50

    • ἐταράχθησανetarachthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were troubled

Luke

two uses
  • When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear.

    Luke 1:12

    • ἐταράχθηetarachtheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was troubled
  • “Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

    Luke 24:38

    • τεταραγμένοιtetaragmenoiverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: troubled

John

six uses
  • “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

    John 5:7

    • ταραχθῇtarachtheaverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may be stirred
  • When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

    John 11:33

    • ἐτάραξενetaraxenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: troubled
  • Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

    John 12:27

    • τετάρακταιtetaraktaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been troubled
  • After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”

    John 13:21

    • ἐταράχθηetarachtheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was troubled
  • “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

    John 14:1

    • ταρασσέσθωtarassesthoverb · present passive, command · 3rd person singulartagged: should be troubled
  • Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

    John 14:27

    • ταρασσέσθωtarassesthoverb · present passive, command · 3rd person singulartagged: should be troubled

Acts

three uses
  • It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.

    Acts 15:24

    • ἐτάραξανetaraxanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: troubled
  • On hearing this, the crowd and city officials were greatly disturbed.

    Acts 17:8

    • ἐτάραξανetaraxanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: They stirred up
  • But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.

    Acts 17:13

    • ταράσσοντεςtarassontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: agitating

Galatians

two uses
  • which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.

    Galatians 1:7

    • ταράσσοντεςtarassontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: are troubling
  • I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

    Galatians 5:10

    • ταράσσωνtarassonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: troubling

1 Peter

one use
  • But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

    1 Peter 3:14

    • ταραχθῆτεtarachtheteverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: shall you be troubled

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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