βουνός
hill
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G1015 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
βουνος — transliterated bounós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “hill.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Luke. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 3:5. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1015 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hill 1×, Hills 1×
- American Standard Version: Hill 1×, Hills 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hill 1×, Hills 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hill 1×, Hills 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1015 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1015 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1015 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1015 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a hill, eminence, mound
Word origin
Origin: probably of foreign origin
Probably of foreign origin; a hillock : - hill.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1015 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βουνοῖς bounoîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 23:30 | 1 |
| βουνὸς bounòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 3:5 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βουνος appears 90 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 82 verses in 24 books.
- 90
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 82
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 24 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 31:46 βουνός
- Exodus 17:9 βουνός
- Numbers 23:9 βουνός
- Deuteronomy 33:15 βουνός
- Joshua 5:3 βουνός
- 1 Samuel 7:1 βουνός
- 2 Samuel 2:24 βουνός
- 1 Kings 14:3 βουνός
- 2 Kings 2:16 βουνός
- 1 Chronicles 11:31 βουνός
- Psalms 64:13 βουνός
- Proverbs 8:25 βουνός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1015) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 82. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 31:46 βουνός Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
- Genesis 31:47 βουνός Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
- Genesis 31:48 βουνός Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed
- Genesis 31:52 βουνός May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
- Exodus 17:9 βουνός Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."
- Exodus 17:10 βουνός So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
- Numbers 23:9 βουνός For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 33:15 βουνός For the chief things of the ancient mountains, For the precious things of the everlasting hills,
- Joshua 5:3 βουνός Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
- 1 Samuel 7:1 βουνός The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 βουνός After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
- 1 Samuel 10:10 βουνός When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.
- 1 Samuel 10:13 βουνός When he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
- 1 Samuel 13:3 βουνός Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
- 1 Samuel 14:2 βουνός Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;
- 1 Samuel 22:6 βουνός Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
- 1 Samuel 23:19 βουνός Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
- 1 Samuel 26:1 βουνός The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?
- 1 Samuel 26:3 βουνός Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
- 2 Samuel 2:24 βουνός But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 2:25 βουνός The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
- 2 Samuel 6:3 βουνός They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
- 2 Samuel 17:9 βουνός Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
- 1 Kings 14:3 βουνός Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.
- 1 Kings 15:22 βουνός Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
- 2 Kings 2:16 βουνός They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
- 2 Kings 10:8 βουνός There came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.
- 2 Kings 16:4 βουνός He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:10 βουνός and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
- 1 Chronicles 11:31 βουνός Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
- Psalms 64:13 βουνός
- Psalms 71:3 βουνός Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, For you are my rock and my fortress.
- Psalms 77:58 βουνός
- Psalms 113:4 βουνός Yahweh is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens.
- Psalms 113:6 βουνός Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
- Psalms 148:9 βουνός Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars;
- Proverbs 8:25 βουνός Before the mountains were settled in place, Before the hills, I was brought forth;
- Song of Solomon 2:8 βουνός The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, Leaping on the mountains, Skipping on the hills.
- Song of Solomon 4:6 βουνός Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, To the hill of frankincense.
- Isaiah 2:2 βουνός It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be raised above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
- Isaiah 2:14 βουνός For all the high mountains, For all the hills that are lifted up,
- Isaiah 9:17 βουνός Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 10:18 βουνός He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
- Isaiah 10:32 βουνός This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 30:17 βουνός One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
- Isaiah 30:25 βουνός There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Isaiah 40:4 βουνός Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
- Isaiah 41:15 βουνός Behold, I have made you [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
- Isaiah 44:23 βουνός Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
- Isaiah 49:13 βουνός Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1015) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
