γωνία
corner
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1137 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Peter
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.
“corner” is the headline sense of the Greek noun γωνια (gōnía). First canonically at Matthew 6:5, it enters the text early. It turns up in 9 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. From the same root come γονυ and γονυπετεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1137 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 2 verses 22%
- Acts 2 verses 22%
- Revelation 2 verses 22%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 44%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 33%
- Johannine 2 verses · 22%
- Revelation 2 verses · 22%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 11%
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: Corner 6×, Corners 2×
- American Standard Version: Corner 6×, Corners 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Corners 3×, Cornerstone 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Corner 6×, Corners 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1137 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1137 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1137 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1137 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- corner
Word origin
Derived from γονυ (góny) (G1119) — knee.
Probably akin to G1119 ; an angle : - corner quarter.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1137 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γωνίας gōnías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 21:42 | 6 |
| γωνίαις gōníais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 6:5 | 2 |
| γωνίᾳ gōnía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 26:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1137, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γωνια appears 31 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 30 verses in 13 books.
- 31
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 30
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 26:23 γωνία
- 1 Samuel 14:38 γωνία
- 1 Kings 7:20 γωνία
- 2 Kings 14:13 γωνία
- 2 Chronicles 4:10 γωνία
- Ezra 13:19 γωνία
- Job 1:19 γωνία
- Psalms 117:22 γωνία
- Proverbs 7:8 γωνία
- Jeremiah 28:26 γωνία
- Ezekiel 41:15 γωνία
- Zephaniah 1:16 γωνία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1137) 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.
- Exodus 26:23 γωνία Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Exodus 26:24 γωνία They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
- Exodus 27:2 γωνία You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.
- 1 Samuel 14:38 γωνία Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.
- 1 Kings 7:20 γωνία There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about on the other capital.
- 2 Kings 14:13 γωνία Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 4:10 γωνία He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
- 2 Chronicles 25:23 γωνία Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 26:9 γωνία Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them.
- 2 Chronicles 26:15 γωνία He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
- 2 Chronicles 28:24 γωνία Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
- Ezra 13:19 γωνία
- Ezra 13:20 γωνία
- Ezra 13:24 γωνία
- Ezra 13:25 γωνία
- Job 1:19 γωνία and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Psalms 117:22 γωνία
- Proverbs 7:8 γωνία Passing through the street near her corner, He went the way to her house,
- Proverbs 7:12 γωνία Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
- Proverbs 21:9 γωνία It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Proverbs 25:24 γωνία It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Jeremiah 28:26 γωνία
- Jeremiah 38:38 γωνία
- Jeremiah 38:40 γωνία
- Ezekiel 41:15 γωνία He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
- Ezekiel 43:20 γωνία You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it.
- Ezekiel 45:19 γωνία The priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it on the door-posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
- Zephaniah 1:16 γωνία a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
- Zephaniah 3:6 γωνία I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
- Zechariah 14:10 γωνία All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1137) 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.
