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Greek noun (masculine) · G5497

χειραγωγός

cheiragogoskhi-rag-o-gos'

guide

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

Concordance spelling: cheiragōgós

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5497is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5497

a hand-leader, i.e. personal conductor (of a blind person)

The King James renders it: some to lead by the hand.

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

cheiragogos is rendered "guide". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 13:11Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

The first use

Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Acts 13:11χειραγωγούς

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.

The other 26 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

  • one to lead by hand1

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.

χείρcheirhandUses175
χείρωνcheironworse thanUses11
χειροποίητοςcheiropoietoshand-madeUses6
χειραγωγέωcheiragogeoto guideUses2
χειροτονέωcheirotoneoto appointUses2
χειρόγραφονcheirographonwriten recordUses1

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

  • χειραγωγούς1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM

Acts

one use
  • Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

    Acts 13:11

    • χειραγωγούςcheiragogousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: one to lead by hand

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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