Greek noun (masculine) · G792
ἀστήρ
asteras-tare'
star
24 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: astḗr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G792is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G792
a star (as strown over the sky), literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: star.
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
aster is rendered "star". It stands 24 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:2asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
Matthew 2:2ἀστέρα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-four uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- stars11
- star8
- a star2
- of stars2
- from star1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀστήρικτος | asteriktos | unstable | Uses2 |
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- ἀστέρες5
- ἀστέρων5
- ἀστέρα4
- ἀστὴρ4
- ἀστέρας3
- ἀστέρος3
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural5N-GPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural5N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular4N-ASM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular4N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural3N-APM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular3N-GSM
Matthew
five uses
asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
- ἀστέραasteranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: star
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and learned from them the exact time the star had appeared.
- ἀστέροςasterosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: star
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the Child was.
- ἀστὴρasternoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: star
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with great delight.
- ἀστέραasteranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: star
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- ἀστέρεςasteresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
Mark
one use
the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- ἀστέρεςasteresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
1 Corinthians
three uses
The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
- ἀστέρωνasteronnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of stars
- ἀστὴρasternoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: star
- ἀστέροςasterosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: from star
Jude
one use
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
- ἀστέρεςasteresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
Revelation
fourteen uses
He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
- ἀστέραςasterasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
- ἀστέρωνasteronnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
- ἀστέρεςasteresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
- ἀστέραςasterasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
And I will give him the morning star.
- ἀστέραasteranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: star
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
- ἀστέραςasterasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
- ἀστέρεςasteresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
- ἀστὴρasternoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a star
The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.
- ἀστέροςasterosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: star
Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
- ἀστέρωνasteronnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
- ἀστέραasteranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a star
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
- ἀστέρωνasteronnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of stars
His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.
- ἀστέρωνasteronnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: stars
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
- ἀστὴρasternoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: star
Where it leads
Studies that open this word2
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.