Greek noun (masculine) · G5481
χαρακτήρ
charakterkhar-ak-tare'
a tool for graving.; a stamp or impress
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: charaktḗr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5481is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5481
a graver (the tool or the person), i.e. (by implication) engraving (("character"), the figure stamped, i.e. an exact copy or (figuratively) representation)
The King James renders it: express image.
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
charakter is rendered "a tool for graving.; a stamp or impress". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a tool for graving.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Hebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
The first use
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 1:3χαρακτὴρ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a tool for graving., and a stamp or impress.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a tool for graving. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereHebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature… |
| a stamp or impressas on a coin or seal | Tagged as
| WhereHebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature… |
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 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- χαρακτὴρ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Hebrews
one use
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- χαρακτὴρcharakternoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: exact expression
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.