δέρω
to flay
‘to flay’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 4 times (27%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1194 appears — 15 distinct verses across 7 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 12:3 ἔδειραν aor act ind 3pl They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
- Mark 12:5 δέροντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.
- Mark 13:9 δαρήσεσθε fut pass ind 2pl But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 12:47 δαρήσεται fut pass ind 3sg That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Luke 12:48 δαρήσεται fut pass ind 3sg but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
- Luke 20:10 δείραντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
- Luke 20:11 δείραντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
- Luke 22:63 δέροντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
John 1 verse
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 5:40 δείραντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
- Acts 16:37 δείραντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
- Acts 22:19 δέρων pres act ptcp nom sg masc I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 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.
“to flay” is the headline sense of the Greek verb δερω (dérō). First canonically at Matthew 21:35, it enters the text early. With 15 verses in 7 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1194 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 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 15 distinct verses.
- Gospels 10 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 53%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 13%
- Johannine 1 verse · 7%
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: Beat 4×, Shall be beaten 2×
- American Standard Version: Beat 4×, Beating 2×, Shall be beaten 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Beat 4×, They beat 4×, Will be beaten with 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beating 4×, Him 3×, Having beaten 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1194 across 15 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1194 across 15 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1194 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G1194 across 18 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.
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 flay, skin
- to beat, thrash, smite
Word origin
Origin: a root word
A primary verb; properly to flay that is (by implication) to scourge or (by analogy) to thrash : - beat smite.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G1194 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δείραντες deírantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 20:10 | 4 |
| δέροντες dérontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 12:5 | 2 |
| δέρων dérōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 22:19 | 2 |
| δαρήσεται darḗsetai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 12:47 | 2 |
| ἔδειραν édeiran | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 21:35 | 2 |
| δέρει dérei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 11:20 | 1 |
| δέρεις déreis | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | John 18:23 | 1 |
| δαρήσεσθε darḗsesthe | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Mark 13:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1194, 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 δερω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 δέρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1194) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1194) 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.
