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Greek adjective · G840

αὐστηρός

austerosow-stay-ros'

severe

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

Concordance spelling: austērós

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G840is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G840

rough (properly as a gale), i.e. (figuratively) severe

The King James renders it: austere.

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

austeros is rendered "severe". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

Luke 19:21αὐστηρὸς

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

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.

The other 26 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

  • harsh2

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 2, 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

  • αὐστηρός1
  • αὐστηρὸς1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM

Luke

two uses
  • For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

    Luke 19:21

    • αὐστηρὸςausterosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: harsh
  • His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

    Luke 19:22

    • αὐστηρόςausterosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: harsh

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.

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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