δηνάριον
denarius
‘denarius’ 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 Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 5 times (31%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 4 times (25%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 4 times (25%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 3 times (19%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1220 appears — 15 distinct verses across 5 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 6 verses
- Matthew 18:28 δηνάρια n acc pl neut "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
- Matthew 20:2 δηναρίου n gen sg neut When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
- Matthew 20:9 δηνάριον n acc sg neut "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
- Matthew 20:10 δηνάριον n acc sg neut When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
- Matthew 20:13 δηναρίου n gen sg neut "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?
- Matthew 22:19 δηνάριον n acc sg neut Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius.
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 6:37 δηναρίων n gen pl neut But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
- Mark 12:15 δηνάριον n acc sg neut Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
- Mark 14:5 δηναρίων n gen pl neut For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 7:41 δηνάρια n acc pl neut "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
- Luke 10:35 δηνάρια n acc pl neut On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
- Luke 20:24 δηνάριον n acc sg neut Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's."
John 2 verses
Revelation 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.
δηναριον — transliterated dēnárion — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “denarius.” Its English rendering has broadened — “penny” classically, “denarius” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 15 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (40% of all occurrences). Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G1220 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.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 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 14 verses · 93%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 20%
- Johannine 3 verses · 20%
- Revelation 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: Penny 9×, Pence 5×, Pennyworth 2×
- American Standard Version: Shillings 7×, Shilling 6×, Denarius 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Denarius 8×, Denarii 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Denarius 9×, Denarii 7×, For 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1220 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1220 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1220 across 16 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1220 across 19 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 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.
- denarius = "containing ten"
- A Roman silver coin in NT time. It took its name from it being equal to ten "asses"…
Word origin
Origin: of Latin origin
Of Latin origin; a denarius (or ten asses ): - pence penny [-worth].
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1220 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δηνάριον dēnárion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 20:9 | 5 |
| δηναρίου dēnaríou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 20:2 | 4 |
| δηναρίων dēnaríōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Mark 6:37 | 4 |
| δηνάρια dēnária | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 18:28 | 3 |
