Greek noun (feminine) · G803
ἀσφάλεια
asphaleiaas-fal'-i-ah
firmness.; certainty; security
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: aspháleia
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G803is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G803
security (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: certainty, safety.
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
asphaleia is rendered "firmness.; certainty; security". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "firmness.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:4so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
Luke 1:4ἀσφάλειαν.¶
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: firmness., and certainty, and security.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| firmness. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLuke 1:4so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. |
| certaintyLuk.1:4. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:4so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. |
| securityAct.5:23 | Tagged as
| WhereActs 5:23“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors… |
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 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
- ἀσφαλείᾳ1
- ἀσφάλεια1
- ἀσφάλειαν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Luke
one use
so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
- ἀσφάλειαν.¶asphaleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: certainty
Acts
one use
“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
- ἀσφαλείᾳasphaleianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: security
1 Thessalonians
one use
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- ἀσφάλειαasphaleianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: security
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.