Greek proper noun (a person) · G6
Ἄβελ
Abelab'-el
Abel
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Ábel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G6is 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) · G6
Abel, the son of Adam
The King James renders it: Abel.
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
Abel is rendered "Abel". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 23:35And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Matthew 23:35Ἅβελ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Abel2
- of Abel2
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 4, 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
- Ἅβελ3
- Ἅβελ.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM-P
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM-P
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM-P
Matthew
one use
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
- Ἅβελhabelnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Abel
Luke
one use
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.
- Ἅβελhabelnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Abel
Hebrews
two uses
By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
- Ἅβελhabelnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Abel
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- Ἅβελ.¶habelnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Abel
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.