Mark 8:20
Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.) Mark 8:20 appears in the Greek New Testament. The text above is from the Tischendorf 8th edition. Each word links to its Strong’s number and a concise gloss. Click any word for its full Thayer’s Greek Lexicon entry.
"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
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World English Bible Public Domain
"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
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King James Version Public Domain
And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
“And when the seven for the 4, 000, the fillings of how many baskets of broken pieces did you take up?” And they say to him, “Seven.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.
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King James Version Public Domain
And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And when the seven among the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces took ye up? And they say unto him, Seven.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And when the seven among the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces took ye up? And they say unto him, Seven.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And when I brake seuen among foure thousande, howe many baskets of the leauings of broken meate tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up And they say to him, Seven.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, `Seven.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
“And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said, “Seven.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
“When I broke the seven loaves among the four thousand, how many basketfuls did you take up?” They said to him, “Seven.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
“And when the seven for the 4, 000, the fillings of how many baskets of broken pieces did you take up?” And they say to him, “Seven.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And when the seven for the four thousand, the filling of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
“And the seven loaves divided among four thousand. How many basketfuls of leftovers did you pick up?” “Seven,” they answered.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.
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Text-Critical English NT CC BY 4.0
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” They said, “Seven.”
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Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain
When I brake.vii. amonge.iiii. M. How many basketes of the levinges of broken meate toke ye vp? they sayde.vii.
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- Appears 5× in the Greek New Testament
- First appears at Matthew 15:38
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Case
- Accusative
- Number
- Plural
- Gender
- Masculine
Full Thayer's Definition
- ὅτε hóte G3753 “when” Adverb
- καὶ kaí G2532 “and” Conjunction
- τοὺς ho G3588 “the” Article, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- ἑπτὰ heptá G2033 “seven” Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable)
- εἰς eis G1519 “into” Preposition
- τοὺς ho G3588 “the” Article, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- τετρακισχιλίους tetrakischílioi G5070 “four thousand” Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- πόσων pósos G4214 “how much” Correlative/interrogative pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter
- σπυρίδων spyrís G4711 “basket” Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine
- πληρώματα plḗrōma G4138 “fullness” Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter
- κλασμάτων klásma G2801 “fragment” Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter
- ἤρατε aírō G142 “to raise up” Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural
- καὶ kaí G2532 “and” Conjunction
- λέγουσιν légō G3004 “to say” Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural
- ἑπτά heptá G2033 “seven” Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable)
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- words
- 12
- distinct lemmas
- Gospels
- section
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to Mark 8:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Matthew 15:34–38 Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
- Mark 8:1–9 In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Mark, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 15 words (12 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tetrakischílioi (“four thousand”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “four thousand” (tetrakischílioi) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Matthew 15:38, which shares the word «four thousand», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “seven” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 20 words in this verse.
- “seven” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 12 distinct Greek lemmas span 15 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Mark 8:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
International Critical Commentary
International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.