γάρ
for
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
- Conjunction
- A joining word linking words or clauses.
Every verse where G1063 appears in the Book of John — 60 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.
John
- John 2:25 γὰρ conj and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
- John 3:2 γὰρ conj The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
- John 3:16 γὰρ conj For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 3:17 γὰρ conj For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- John 3:19 γὰρ conj This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- John 3:20 γὰρ conj For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
- John 3:24 γὰρ conj For John was not yet thrown into prison.
- John 3:34 γὰρ γὰρ conj conj For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- John 4:8 γὰρ conj For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
- John 4:18 γὰρ conj for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
- John 4:23 γὰρ conj But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
- John 4:37 γὰρ conj For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
- John 4:42 γὰρ conj They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
- John 4:44 γὰρ conj For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
- John 4:45 γὰρ conj So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
- John 4:47 γὰρ conj When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
- John 5:13 γὰρ conj But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
- John 5:19 γὰρ conj Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
- John 5:20 γὰρ conj For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
- John 5:21 γὰρ conj For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
- John 5:22 γὰρ conj For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
- John 5:26 γὰρ conj For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
- John 5:36 γὰρ conj But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
- John 5:46 γὰρ γὰρ conj conj For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
- John 6:6 γὰρ conj This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
- John 6:27 γὰρ conj Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
- John 6:33 γὰρ conj For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
- John 6:40 γάρ conj This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
- John 6:55 γὰρ conj For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
- John 6:64 γὰρ conj But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
- John 6:71 γὰρ conj Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
- John 7:1 γὰρ conj After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- John 7:4 γάρ conj For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
- John 7:5 γὰρ conj For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
- John 7:39 γὰρ conj But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
- John 7:41 γὰρ conj Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
- John 8:24 γὰρ conj I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
- John 8:42 γὰρ γὰρ conj conj Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
- John 9:22 γὰρ conj His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
- John 9:30 γὰρ conj The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
- John 11:39 γάρ conj Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."
- John 12:8 γὰρ conj For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
- John 12:43 γὰρ conj for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
- John 12:47 γὰρ conj If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
- John 13:11 γὰρ conj For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean."
- John 13:13 γάρ conj You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am.
- John 13:15 γὰρ conj For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
- John 13:29 γὰρ conj For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
- John 14:30 γὰρ conj I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
- John 16:7 γὰρ conj Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
- John 16:13 γὰρ conj However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
- John 16:27 γὰρ conj for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
- John 18:13 γὰρ conj and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
- John 19:6 γὰρ conj When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
- John 19:31 γὰρ conj Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
- John 19:36 γὰρ conj For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."
- John 20:9 γὰρ conj For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
- John 20:17 γὰρ conj Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
- John 21:7 γὰρ conj That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
- John 21:8 γὰρ conj But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
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.
γαρ — transliterated gár — is a Greek conjunction carrying the sense “for.” Debuting at Matthew 1:20, it then recurs through the corpus. With 983 verses in 27 books, it is one of the most common word in the Greek New Testament. 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 G1063 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 →
- 983
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 983 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #18
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 18 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 983 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 132 verses 13%
- Matthew 121 verses 12%
- 1 Corinthians 98 verses 10%
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 983 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 428 verses · 44%
- Gospels 331 verses · 34%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 163 verses · 17%
- Hebrews 88 verses · 9%
- Johannine 81 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 46 verses · 5%
- Revelation 16 verses · 2%
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: For 1,006×, Why 4×, And 3×
- American Standard Version: For 944×, But 9×, What 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: For 634×, Because 61×, Indeed 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: For 1,011×, Because 19×, Indeed 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1063 across 1,040 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 27 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1063 across 1,011 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 18 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1063 across 756 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 268 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1063 across 1,043 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- for
Word origin
Origin: a primary particle
A primary particle; properly assigning a reason (used in argument explanation or intensification; often with other particles): - and as because (that) but even for indeed no doubt seeing then therefore verily what why yet.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1063 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γὰρ gàr | Conjunction | Matthew 1:20 | 921 |
| γάρ gár | Conjunction | Matthew 3:3 | 115 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γαρ appears 894 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 853 verses in 24 books.
- 894
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 853
- 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 2:5 γάρ
- Exodus 1:19 γάρ
- Leviticus 2:11 γάρ
- Numbers 3:13 γάρ
- Deuteronomy 1:42 γάρ
- Joshua 1:6 γάρ
- Ruth 3:11 γάρ
- 1 Samuel 20:30 γάρ
- 2 Samuel 17:9 γάρ
- 1 Chronicles 8:32 γάρ
- 2 Chronicles 12:12 γάρ
- Esther 1:17 γάρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1063) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 853. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:5 γάρ No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 3:5 γάρ for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 4:25 γάρ Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 7:4 γάρ In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 9:5 γάρ I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
- Genesis 14:12 γάρ They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
- Genesis 15:16 γάρ In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
- Genesis 16:13 γάρ She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
- Genesis 18:15 γάρ Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid." He said, "No, but you did laugh."
- Genesis 18:19 γάρ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 19:22 γάρ Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- Genesis 19:30 γάρ Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
- Genesis 20:2 γάρ Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Genesis 20:11 γάρ Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
- Genesis 20:12 γάρ Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 21:6 γάρ Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
- Genesis 21:10 γάρ Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Isaac."
- Genesis 21:16 γάρ She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 21:17 γάρ God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 21:18 γάρ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
- Genesis 22:12 γάρ He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
- Genesis 23:6 γάρ "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 24:41 γάρ Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
- Genesis 26:3 γάρ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
- Genesis 26:7 γάρ The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look on.
- Genesis 26:9 γάρ Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 26:20 γάρ The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
- Genesis 26:24 γάρ Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
- Genesis 27:23 γάρ He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
- Genesis 27:36 γάρ He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
- Genesis 28:11 γάρ He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
- Genesis 29:2 γάρ He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
- Genesis 29:9 γάρ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
- Genesis 29:15 γάρ Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
- Genesis 29:21 γάρ Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
- Genesis 29:34 γάρ She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 30:16 γάρ Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
- Genesis 30:20 γάρ Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 30:26 γάρ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."
- Genesis 30:27 γάρ Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
- Genesis 30:30 γάρ For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
- Genesis 31:12 γάρ He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
- Genesis 31:15 γάρ Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
- Genesis 31:30 γάρ Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
- Genesis 31:31 γάρ Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
- Genesis 31:52 γάρ 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.
- Genesis 32:11 γάρ Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
- Genesis 32:21 γάρ So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
- Genesis 32:27 γάρ He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
- Genesis 32:31 γάρ The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1063) 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.
