δαιμόνιον
demon
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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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
14 distinct verses where G1140 appears in the Nominative case, across 5 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 2 verses
Luke 9 verses
- Luke 4:35 δαιμόνιον n nom sg neut Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
- Luke 4:41 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
- Luke 8:2 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
- Luke 8:30 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.
- Luke 8:33 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
- Luke 8:35 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
- Luke 8:38 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
- Luke 9:42 δαιμόνιον n nom sg neut While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
- Luke 10:17 δαιμόνια n nom pl neut The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"
John 1 verse
James 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.
δαιμονιον — transliterated daimónion — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “demon.” The King James Version usually renders it “devils,” while modern versions prefer “demons” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. With 55 verses in 9 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (38% of all occurrences). Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. 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 G1140 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 →
- 55
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 55 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #259
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 259 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 55 occurrences in the concordance →
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 55 distinct verses.
- Gospels 47 verses · 85%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 22 verses · 40%
- Johannine 9 verses · 16%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 5%
- Revelation 3 verses · 5%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 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: Devils 41×, Devil 18×
- American Standard Version: Demons 40×, Demon 17×
- Berean Standard Bible: Demons 40×, Demon 17×, Demon-possessed 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Demons 43×, Demon 19×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1140 across 60 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 G1140 across 58 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1140 across 62 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1140 across 66 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
- the divine power, deity, divinity
- a spirit, a being inferior to God, superior to men
- evil spirits or the messengers and ministers of the devil
Word origin
Derived from δαιμων (daímōn) (G1142) — demon.
Neuter of a derivative of G1142 ; a daemonic being ; by extension a deity : - devil god.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1140 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δαιμόνια daimónia | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 7:22 | 32 |
| δαιμόνιον daimónion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 11:18 | 15 |
| δαιμονίων daimoníōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 9:34 | 11 |
| δαιμονίου daimoníou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 9:33 | 4 |
| δαιμονίοις daimoníois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 10:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1140, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δαιμονιον appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 3 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 32:17 δαιμόνιον
- Psalms 90:6 δαιμόνιον
- Isaiah 13:21 δαιμόνιον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1140) 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:17 δαιμόνιον They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn't know, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn't dread.
- Psalms 90:6 δαιμόνιον In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
- Psalms 95:5 δαιμόνιον The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
- Psalms 105:37 δαιμόνιον He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
- Isaiah 13:21 δαιμόνιον But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
- Isaiah 34:14 δαιμόνιον The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
- Isaiah 65:3 δαιμόνιον a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1140) 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.
