δάκτυλος
finger
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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 verses where G1147 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 11:46 δακτύλων n gen pl masc He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
- Luke 16:24 δακτύλου n gen sg masc He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
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.
δακτυλος (dáktylos) is a Greek noun most often rendered “finger.” Debuting at Matthew 23:4, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Luke dominates its distribution — 3 of 8 verses. Related forms include δεκα, δεκαδυο and δεκαπεντε. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1147 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 38%
- Johannine 3 verses · 38%
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: Finger 5×, Fingers 3×
- American Standard Version: Finger 5×, With 3×, Fingers 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Finger 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Finger 7×, Fingers 2×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1147 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1147 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1147 across 8 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1147 across 12 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.
- a finger
Word origin
Derived from δεκα (déka) (G1176) — ten.
Probably from G1176 ; a finger : - finger.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1147 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δακτύλῳ daktýlō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 23:4 | 3 |
| δάκτυλον dáktylon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 20:25 | 1 |
| δάκτυλόν dáktylón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 20:27 | 1 |
| δακτύλου daktýlou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:24 | 1 |
| δακτύλους daktýlous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 7:33 | 1 |
| δακτύλων daktýlōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Luke 11:46 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1147, 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
- δεκαδυο dekadýo G1177 twelve
- δεκαπεντε dekapénte G1178 fifteen
- δεκατεσσαρες dekatéssares G1180 fourteen
- δεκατος dékatos G1182 tenth
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δακτυλος appears 36 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 33 verses in 14 books.
- 36
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 33
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 8:15 δάκτυλος
- Leviticus 4:6 δάκτυλος
- Deuteronomy 9:10 δάκτυλος
- 2 Samuel 21:20 δάκτυλος
- 1 Kings 7:3 δάκτυλος
- 1 Chronicles 20:6 δάκτυλος
- 2 Chronicles 10:10 δάκτυλος
- Job 29:9 δάκτυλος
- Psalms 8:4 δάκτυλος
- Proverbs 6:13 δάκτυλος
- Song of Solomon 5:5 δάκτυλος
- Isaiah 2:8 δάκτυλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1147) 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 8:15 δάκτυλος But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
- Exodus 29:12 δάκτυλος You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
- Exodus 31:18 δάκτυλος He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.
- Leviticus 4:6 δάκτυλος The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 4:17 δάκτυλος and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
- Leviticus 4:25 δάκτυλος The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:30 δάκτυλος The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
- Leviticus 4:34 δάκτυλος The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
- Leviticus 8:15 δάκτυλος He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
- Leviticus 9:9 δάκτυλος The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:
- Leviticus 14:16 δάκτυλος The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:27 δάκτυλος and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 16:14 δάκτυλος He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
- Leviticus 16:19 δάκτυλος He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 9:10 δάκτυλος Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
- 2 Samuel 21:20 δάκτυλος There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
- 1 Kings 7:3 δάκτυλος It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.
- 1 Chronicles 20:6 δάκτυλος There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]; and he also was born to the giant.
- 2 Chronicles 10:10 δάκτυλος The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- Job 29:9 δάκτυλος The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
- Psalms 8:4 δάκτυλος What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him?
- Psalms 143:1 δάκτυλος Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Psalms 151:2 δάκτυλος
- Proverbs 6:13 δάκτυλος Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers;
- Proverbs 7:3 δάκτυλος Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Song of Solomon 5:5 δάκτυλος I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.
- Isaiah 2:8 δάκτυλος Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
- Isaiah 17:8 δάκτυλος They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
- Isaiah 59:3 δάκτυλος For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
- Jeremiah 52:21 δάκτυλος As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.
- Daniel 2:42 δάκτυλος As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
- Daniel 4:29 δάκτυλος At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Daniel 5:5 δάκτυλος In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1147) 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.
