αἴνεσις
praise
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G133 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Hebrews 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.
αινεσις — transliterated aínesis — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “praise.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Hebrews (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Hebrews 13:15. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G133 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
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: Praise 1×
- American Standard Version: Praise 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Praise 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Praise 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G133 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G133 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G133 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G133 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- praise, a thank offering
Word origin
Derived from αινεω (ainéō) (G134) — to praise.
From G134 ; a praising (the act) that is (specifically) a thank (offering): - praise.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αινεσις appears 55 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 53 verses in 10 books.
- 55
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 53
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 7:12 αἴνεσις
- 1 Chronicles 16:35 αἴνεσις
- 2 Chronicles 20:22 αἴνεσις
- Ezra 10:11 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 9:15 αἴνεσις
- Isaiah 12:2 αἴνεσις
- Jeremiah 17:26 αἴνεσις
- Daniel 4:29 αἴνεσις
- Jonah 2:10 αἴνεσις
- Habakkuk 3:3 αἴνεσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G133) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 53. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 7:12 αἴνεσις If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.
- Leviticus 7:13 αἴνεσις With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.
- Leviticus 7:15 αἴνεσις The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
- 1 Chronicles 16:35 αἴνεσις Say you, Save us, God of our salvation, Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, To triumph in your praise.
- 1 Chronicles 25:3 αἴνεσις Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 20:22 αἴνεσις When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 αἴνεσις Then Hezekiah answered, Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart [brought] burnt offerings.
- 2 Chronicles 33:16 αἴνεσις He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Ezra 10:11 αἴνεσις Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
- Ezra 19:5 αἴνεσις
- Ezra 22:31 αἴνεσις
- Ezra 22:38 αἴνεσις
- Ezra 22:40 αἴνεσις
- Ezra 22:46 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 9:15 αἴνεσις The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
- Psalms 25:7 αἴνεσις Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, For your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
- Psalms 32:1 αἴνεσις Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.
- Psalms 33:2 αἴνεσις Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
- Psalms 47:11 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 49:14 αἴνεσις They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.
- Psalms 49:23 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 50:17 αἴνεσις Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?
- Psalms 55:13 αἴνεσις But it was you, a man like me, My companion, and my familiar friend.
- Psalms 65:2 αἴνεσις You who hear prayer, To you all men will come.
- Psalms 65:8 αἴνεσις They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
- Psalms 68:31 αἴνεσις Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
- Psalms 70:8 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 70:14 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 72:28 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 77:4 αἴνεσις You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
- Psalms 78:13 αἴνεσις He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.
- Psalms 101:19 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 101:22 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 105:2 αἴνεσις Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
- Psalms 105:12 αἴνεσις When they were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
- Psalms 105:47 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 106:22 αἴνεσις Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.
- Psalms 108:1 αἴνεσις My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
- Psalms 110:10 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 115:8 αἴνεσις Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
- Psalms 144:1 αἴνεσις Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, Who teaches my hands to war, And my fingers to battle:
- Psalms 144:21 αἴνεσις
- Psalms 146:1 αἴνεσις Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
- Isaiah 12:2 αἴνεσις Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."
- Isaiah 35:10 αἴνεσις and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Isaiah 42:21 αἴνεσις It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
- Isaiah 51:3 αἴνεσις For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
- Isaiah 51:11 αἴνεσις The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Jeremiah 17:26 αἴνεσις They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 40:9 αἴνεσις Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G133) 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.
