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γραμματεύς

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also: a clerk, esp.a public servant, secretary, recorder fuller range ↓

G1122 Strong's Greek
grammateús Transliteration
/gram-mat-yooce'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 63 appearances

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About this entry

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γραμματευς (grammateús) is a Greek noun most often rendered “scribe.” It first appears in Matthew 2:4. It turns up in 63 verses across 6 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 35% of its uses. The lexical range runs to 3 senses — “scribe” plus “a clerk”, “esp.a public servant”, and “secretary”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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Modern gloss
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About this word

Strong's G1122 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 →

63
distinct verses
The word appears in 63 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:4
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:4.
1 Corinthians 1:20
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Corinthians 1:20.
#259
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 259 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 63 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 58 · 92%
  • Acts 4 · 6%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 2%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 63 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 58 verses · 92%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 18 verses · 29%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 2%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 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: Scribes 61×, Scribe 3×
  • American Standard Version: Scribes 57×, Scribe 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Scribes 58×, Scribe 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scribes 59×, Scribe 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1122 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Scribes” 61×
  • “Scribe” 3×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1122 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Scribes” 57×
  • “Scribe” 3×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1122 across 63 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Scribes” 58×
  • “Scribe” 3×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1122 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Scribes” 59×
  • “Scribe” 3×

Plus 3 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 3 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.

  1. a clerk, scribe, esp.a public servant, secretary, recorder, whose office and influence differed in different states
  2. in the Bible…
  3. a religious teacher: so instructed that from his learning and ability to teach advantage may redound to the kingdom of…

Word origin

Derived from γραμμα (grámma) (G1121) — letter.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 13:20,1

From G1121 ; a writer that is (professionally) scribe or secretary : - scribe town-clerk.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 5 distinct written forms G1122 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
γραμματεῖς grammateîs Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 7:29 39
γραμματέων grammatéōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:20 17
γραμματεὺς grammateùs Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:19 3
γραμματεύς grammateús Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 12:32 2
γραμματεῦσιν grammateûsin Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 20:18 2

Septuagint usage

The same Greek word γραμματευς appears 74 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 73 verses in 16 books.

74
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
73
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
16 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1122) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 73. 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 (G1122) 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.

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