βρυγμός
gnashing
‘gnashing’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1030 appears in the Book of Matthew — 6 distinct verses. 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 8:12 βρυγμὸς n nom sg masc but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
- Matthew 13:42 βρυγμὸς n nom sg masc and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 13:50 βρυγμὸς n nom sg masc and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
- Matthew 22:13 βρυγμὸς n nom sg masc Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
- Matthew 24:51 βρυγμὸς n nom sg masc and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
- Matthew 25:30 βρυγμὸς n nom sg masc Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
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.
βρυγμος (brygmós) is a Greek noun most often rendered “gnashing.” It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 86% of its uses. It turns up in 7 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “gnashing” in the King James Version, “grinding” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1030 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 14%
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: Gnashing 7×
- American Standard Version: Gnashing 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gnashing 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grinding 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1030 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1030 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1030 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1030 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- used to denote extreme anguish and utter despair of men consigned to eternal punishment in hell
- snarling, growling: in the sense of biting
Word origin
Derived from βρυχω (brýchō) (G1031) — to gnash.
From G1031 ; a grating (of the teeth): - gnashing.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βρυγμος appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 19:12 βρυγμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1030) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1030) 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.
