δεικνύω
to show
‘to show’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G1166 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Matthew. 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
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.
“to show” is the headline sense of the Greek verb δεικνυω (deiknýō). Where the King James Version says “shew,” newer translations reach for “show” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 30 verses — moderately common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Revelation. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 30-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1166 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 →
- 30
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 30 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #438
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 438 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 30 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 8 verses 27%
- John 6 verses 20%
- Luke 4 verses 13%
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 30 distinct verses.
- Gospels 15 verses · 50%
- Johannine 14 verses · 47%
- Revelation 8 verses · 27%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 20%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 3%
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: Shew 9×, Shewed 4×, I will shew 3×
- American Standard Version: Show 7×, Showed 4×, I will show 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Show 10×, I will show 5×, Showed 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Show 10×, He showed 4×, I will show 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1166 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G1166 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 G1166 across 33 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G1166 across 33 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 2 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.
- to show, expose to the eyes
- metaph.
Word origin
Origin: a prolonged form of an obsolete primary of the same meaning
A prolonged form of an obsolete primary of the same meaning; to show (literally or figuratively): - shew.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms G1166 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1166, 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 δεικνυω appears 92 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 85 verses in 27 books.
- 92
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 85
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:1 δεικνύω
- Exodus 13:21 δεικνύω
- Leviticus 13:49 δεικνύω
- Numbers 8:4 δεικνύω
- Deuteronomy 1:33 δεικνύω
- Joshua 7:14 δεικνύω
- Judges 1:24 δεικνύω
- 1 Samuel 12:23 δεικνύω
- 2 Samuel 15:25 δεικνύω
- 1 Kings 13:12 δεικνύω
- 2 Kings 6:6 δεικνύω
- 2 Chronicles 23:3 δεικνύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1166) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 85. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:1 δεικνύω Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
- Genesis 41:25 δεικνύω Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:28 δεικνύω That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:39 δεικνύω Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
- Genesis 48:11 δεικνύω Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and, behold, God has let me see your seed also."
- Exodus 13:21 δεικνύω Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 15:25 δεικνύω Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh shown him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
- Exodus 25:9 δεικνύω According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
- Exodus 25:40 δεικνύω See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
- Exodus 26:30 δεικνύω You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
- Exodus 33:5 δεικνύω Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."
- Exodus 33:18 δεικνύω He said, "Please show me your glory."
- Leviticus 13:49 δεικνύω if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
- Numbers 8:4 δεικνύω This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
- Numbers 13:26 δεικνύω They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
- Numbers 16:30 δεικνύω But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 22:41 δεικνύω It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
- Numbers 23:3 δεικνύω Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.
- Numbers 24:17 δεικνύω I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult.
- Deuteronomy 1:33 δεικνύω who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
- Deuteronomy 3:24 δεικνύω Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
- Deuteronomy 4:5 δεικνύω Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:36 δεικνύω Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 5:24 δεικνύω and you said, Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.
- Deuteronomy 32:20 δεικνύω He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
- Deuteronomy 34:1 δεικνύω Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh shown him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
- Deuteronomy 34:4 δεικνύω Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.
- Joshua 7:14 δεικνύω In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man.
- Judges 1:24 δεικνύω The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.
- Judges 1:25 δεικνύω He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
- Judges 4:22 δεικνύω Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
- Judges 13:23 δεικνύω But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
- 1 Samuel 12:23 δεικνύω Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
- 2 Samuel 15:25 δεικνύω The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
- 1 Kings 13:12 δεικνύω Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
- 2 Kings 6:6 δεικνύω The man of God said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.
- 2 Kings 8:10 δεικνύω Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.
- 2 Kings 8:13 δεικνύω Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king over Syria.
- 2 Kings 11:4 δεικνύω In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the king's son.
- 2 Kings 20:13 δεικνύω Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
- 2 Kings 20:15 δεικνύω He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.
- 2 Chronicles 23:3 δεικνύω All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
- Esther 1:4 δεικνύω when he shown the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
- Esther 1:11 δεικνύω to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful to look on.
- Esther 4:8 δεικνύω Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
- Job 28:11 δεικνύω He binds the streams that they don't trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
- Job 33:23 δεικνύω "If there is beside him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show to man what is right for him;
- Job 34:32 δεικνύω Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
- Psalms 4:7 δεικνύω You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
- Psalms 49:23 δεικνύω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1166) 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.
