δέ
but
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.
Page 13 of 13 — showing verses 2,401–2,464 of 2,464 distinct verses where G1161 appears, across 26 books. 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 23 verses
- 1 Peter 1:25 δὲ δέ conj conj But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.
- 1 Peter 2:4 δὲ conj coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
- 1 Peter 2:7 δὲ conj For you therefore who believe is the honor, but for such as are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, Has become the chief cornerstone,"
- 1 Peter 2:9 δὲ conj But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- 1 Peter 2:10 δὲ δὲ conj conj who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- 1 Peter 2:14 δὲ conj or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to those who do well.
- 1 Peter 2:23 δὲ conj Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
- 1 Peter 3:8 δὲ conj Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
- 1 Peter 3:9 δὲ conj not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
- 1 Peter 3:12 δὲ conj For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And his ears open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
- 1 Peter 3:14 δὲ conj But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."
- 1 Peter 3:15 δὲ conj But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
- 1 Peter 3:18 δὲ conj Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- 1 Peter 4:6 δὲ conj For to this end was the Gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
- 1 Peter 4:7 δὲ conj But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- 1 Peter 4:16 δὲ δὲ conj conj But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
- 1 Peter 4:17 δὲ conj For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Gospel of God?
- 1 Peter 5:5 δὲ δὲ conj conj Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
- 1 Peter 5:10 δὲ conj But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
2 Peter 16 verses
- 2 Peter 1:5 δὲ δὲ conj conj Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
- 2 Peter 1:6 δὲ δὲ δὲ conj conj conj and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
- 2 Peter 1:7 δὲ δὲ conj conj and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
- 2 Peter 1:13 δὲ conj I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
- 2 Peter 1:15 δὲ conj Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
- 2 Peter 2:1 δὲ conj But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
- 2 Peter 2:9 δὲ conj the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
- 2 Peter 2:10 δὲ conj but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
- 2 Peter 2:12 δέ conj But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
- 2 Peter 2:16 δὲ conj but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
- 2 Peter 2:20 δὲ conj For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
- 2 Peter 3:7 δὲ conj But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- 2 Peter 3:8 δὲ conj But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- 2 Peter 3:10 δὲ δὲ conj conj But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
- 2 Peter 3:13 δὲ conj But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
- 2 Peter 3:18 δὲ conj But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
1 John 10 verses
- 1 John 1:3 δὲ conj that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 1:7 δὲ conj But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- 1 John 2:2 δὲ conj And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- 1 John 2:5 δ’ conj But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
- 1 John 2:11 δὲ conj But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- 1 John 2:17 δὲ conj The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
- 1 John 3:12 δὲ conj unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
- 1 John 3:17 δ’ conj But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
- 1 John 4:18 δὲ conj There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
- 1 John 5:20 δὲ conj We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
3 John 2 verses
Jude 10 verses
- Jude 1:1 δὲ conj Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
- Jude 1:5 δὲ conj Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.
- Jude 1:8 δὲ δὲ conj conj Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
- Jude 1:9 δὲ conj But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
- Jude 1:10 δὲ δὲ conj conj But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
- Jude 1:14 δὲ conj About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- Jude 1:17 δέ conj But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:20 δέ conj But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
- Jude 1:23 δὲ δὲ conj conj and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
- Jude 1:24 δὲ conj Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
Revelation 7 verses
- Revelation 1:14 δὲ conj His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
- Revelation 2:5 δὲ conj Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Revelation 2:16 δὲ conj Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
- Revelation 2:24 δὲ conj But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
- Revelation 10:2 δὲ conj He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
- Revelation 19:12 δὲ conj His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.
- Revelation 21:8 δὲ conj But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
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.
δε — transliterated dé — is a Greek conjunction carrying the sense “but.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:2. It appears 2,464 verses across 26 books of the Greek New Testament, among its most common vocabulary. It shares a root with δη. 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 G1161 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 →
- 2,464
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2,464 distinct verses.
- 26 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
- #4
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 4 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2,464 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 2,464 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1,258 verses · 51%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 971 verses · 39%
- Pauline corpus 547 verses · 22%
- Johannine 211 verses · 9%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 93 verses · 4%
- Hebrews 68 verses · 3%
- Revelation 7 verses · 0%
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: And 1,228×, But 929×, Now 166×
- American Standard Version: And 1,179×, But 999×, Now 171×
- Berean Standard Bible: But 784×, And 339×, Now 116×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: But 1,407×, And 745×, Now 419×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1161 across 2,711 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 42 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 159 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1161 across 2,640 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 75 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 34 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1161 across 1,643 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 38 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 1,112 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1161 across 2,802 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 9 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.
- but, moreover, and, etc.
Word origin
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
A primary particle (adversative or continuative); but and etc. : - also and but moreover now [ often unexpressed in English ].
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1161 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δὲ dè | Conjunction | Matthew 1:2 | 2,602 |
| δέ dé | Conjunction | Matthew 5:31 | 147 |
| δ’ d | Conjunction | Matthew 5:19 | 22 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1161, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δε appears 3,556 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3,042 verses in 35 books.
- 3,556
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3,042
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:2 δέ
- Exodus 1:5 δέ
- Leviticus 1:9 δέ
- Numbers 1:47 δέ
- Deuteronomy 4:4 δέ
- Joshua 1:14 δέ
- Judges 1:11 δέ
- Ruth 1:14 δέ
- 1 Samuel 7:17 δέ
- 2 Samuel 3:30 δέ
- 1 Kings 1:17 δέ
- 2 Kings 3:15 δέ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1161) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 3,042. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:2 δέ Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 2:6 δέ but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- Genesis 2:10 δέ A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
- Genesis 2:12 δέ and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:14 δέ The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 2:17 δέ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 2:20 δέ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Genesis 3:1 δέ Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:3 δέ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:17 δέ To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 4:1 δέ The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."
- Genesis 4:2 δέ Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- Genesis 4:5 δέ but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
- Genesis 4:7 δέ If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
- Genesis 4:9 δέ Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:16 δέ Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- Genesis 4:18 δέ To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 4:22 δέ Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
- Genesis 4:23 δέ Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 4:24 δέ If Cain will be avenged seven times, Truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
- Genesis 4:25 δέ 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 4:26 δέ There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
- Genesis 5:3 δέ Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Genesis 5:4 δέ The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:6 δέ Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.
- Genesis 5:22 δέ Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 6:2 δέ that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:3 δέ Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 6:4 δέ The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:5 δέ Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:8 δέ But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
- Genesis 6:9 δέ This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:10 δέ Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:11 δέ The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:16 δέ You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
- Genesis 6:17 δέ I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 6:18 δέ But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 6:21 δέ Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 7:2 δέ You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
- Genesis 7:6 δέ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:7 δέ Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:19 δέ The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
- Genesis 8:5 δέ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
- Genesis 8:14 δέ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
- Genesis 9:7 δέ Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
- Genesis 9:18 δέ The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:24 δέ Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
- Genesis 9:28 δέ Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 10:1 δέ Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- Genesis 10:6 δέ The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1161) 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.
