Greek noun (neuter) · G798
ἄστρον
astronas'-tron
star
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ástron
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G798is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G798
properly, a constellation; put for a single star (natural or artificial)
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
astron is rendered "star". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
Luke 21:25ἄστροις
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
- stars3
- 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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- ἄστρα1
- ἄστροις1
- ἄστρον1
- ἄστρων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1N-DPN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural1N-GPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1N-NPN
Luke
one use
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- ἄστροιςastroisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: stars
Acts
two uses
You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
- ἄστρονastronnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: star
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
- ἄστρωνastronnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: stars
Hebrews
one use
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- ἄστραastranoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: stars
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.