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δεξιός

right

‘right’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1188 Strong's Greek
dexiós Transliteration
/dex-ee-os'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 54 appearances

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About this entry

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δεξιος — transliterated dexiós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “right.” It first appears in Matthew 5:29. With 54 verses in 13 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. From the same root come δεχομαι, δεκτος and δοκος. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
right
Modern gloss
right
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1188 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 →

54
distinct verses
The word appears in 54 distinct verses.
13 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:29
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:29.
Revelation 13:16
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 13:16.
#295
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 295 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 54 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 27 · 50%
  • Acts 7 · 13%
  • Pauline Epistles 5 · 9%
  • General Epistles 6 · 11%
  • Revelation 9 · 17%

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 54 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 27 verses · 50%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 24%
  • Johannine 11 verses · 20%
  • Revelation 9 verses · 17%
  • Pauline corpus 5 verses · 9%
  • Hebrews 5 verses · 9%
  • 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: Right hand 39×, Right 11×, Right side 2×
  • American Standard Version: Right hand 37×, Right 12×, Right side 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Right hand 32×, Right 20×, Right side 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Right hand 28×, Right 24×, Right side 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1188 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Right hand” 39×
  • “Right” 11×
  • “Right side” 2×

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 G1188 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Right hand” 37×
  • “Right” 12×
  • “Right side” 2×

Plus 2 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 G1188 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Right hand” 32×
  • “Right” 20×
  • “Right side” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1188 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Right hand” 28×
  • “Right” 24×
  • “Right side” 2×

Plus 2 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.

  1. the right, the right hand
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from δεχομαι (déchomai) (G1209) — to receive.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 02:37,1

From G1209 ; the right side or (feminine) hand (as that which usually takes ): - right (hand side).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 11 distinct written forms G1188 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
δεξιῶν dexiō̂n Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 20:21 23
δεξιᾷ dexiâ Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 27:29 13
δεξιὰν dexiàn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:39 4
δεξιᾶς dexiâs Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Acts 3:7 4
δεξιὰ dexià Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter John 21:6 2
δεξιά dexiá Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:30 2
δεξιόν dexión Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Luke 22:50 2
δεξιοῖς dexioîs Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter Mark 16:5 1
δεξιὰς dexiàs Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Galatians 2:9 1
δεξιὸν dexiòn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Revelation 10:2 1
δεξιὸς dexiòs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 5:29 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1188, 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 → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word δεξιος appears 177 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 150 verses in 27 books.

177
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
150
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

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1188) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 150. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1188) 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.

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