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Greek verb · G722

ἀροτριόω

arotriooar-ot-ree-o'-o

to plow

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

Concordance spelling: arotrióō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G722is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G722

to plow

The King James renders it: plough.

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

arotrioo is rendered "to plow". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • Two of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 17:7Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

Luke 17:7ἀροτριῶντα

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

Where the word stands

Two of the word's three uses are in 1 Corinthians.

The other 25 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

  • plowing2
  • to plow1

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.

ἄροτρονarotronplowUses1

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 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

  • ἀροτριᾶν1
  • ἀροτριῶν1
  • ἀροτριῶντα1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
  • verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PAP-ASM
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM

Luke

one use
  • Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

    Luke 17:7

    • ἀροτριῶνταarotriontaverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: plowing

1 Corinthians

two uses
  • Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.

    1 Corinthians 9:10

    • ἀροτριῶνarotrionverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: plowing
    • ἀροτριᾶνarotrianverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to plow

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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