δίκτυον
net
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1350 appears in the Book of Matthew — 2 distinct verses. 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.
At its core, δικτυον (díktyon) means “net.” It first appears in Matthew 4:20. It turns up in 11 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Luke (36%), then John and Matthew. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1350 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 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 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 11 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 36%
- Johannine 3 verses · 27%
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: Net 6×, Nets 6×
- American Standard Version: Nets 8×, Net 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nets 8×, Net 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nets 8×, Net 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1350 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1350 across 12 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1350 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1350 across 12 tagged occurrences — 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.
- a net
Word origin
Origin: probably from a primary verb diko (to cast)
Probably from a primary verb δίκω dikō (to cast ); a seine (for fishing): - net.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1350 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δίκτυα díktya | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 4:20 | 8 |
| δίκτυον díktyon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | John 21:6 | 4 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δικτυον appears 22 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 9 books.
- 22
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 7:5 δίκτυον
- 2 Chronicles 4:12 δίκτυον
- Job 18:8 δίκτυον
- Proverbs 1:17 δίκτυον
- Song of Solomon 2:9 δίκτυον
- Jeremiah 52:22 δίκτυον
- Lamentations 1:13 δίκτυον
- Ezekiel 12:13 δίκτυον
- Hosea 5:1 δίκτυον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1350) 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.
- 1 Kings 7:5 δίκτυον All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:27 δίκτυον He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
- 1 Kings 7:28 δίκτυον The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;
- 2 Chronicles 4:12 δίκτυον the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
- 2 Chronicles 4:13 δίκτυον and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
- Job 18:8 δίκτυον For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.
- Proverbs 1:17 δίκτυον For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
- Proverbs 29:5 δίκτυον A man who flatters his neighbor, Spreads a net for his feet.
- Song of Solomon 2:9 δίκτυον My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
- Jeremiah 52:22 δίκτυον A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.
- Jeremiah 52:23 δίκτυον There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about.
- Lamentations 1:13 δίκτυον From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Ezekiel 12:13 δίκτυον My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
- Ezekiel 17:20 δίκτυον I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
- Ezekiel 19:8 δίκτυον Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
- Ezekiel 32:3 δίκτυον Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
- Hosea 5:1 δίκτυον "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, And give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread on Tabor.
- Hosea 7:12 δίκτυον When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1350) 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.
