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εἰρήνη

peace

‘peace’ is one of 6 main senses fuller range ↓

G1515 Strong's Greek
eirḗnē Transliteration
/i-ray'-nay/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 91 appearances

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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.

ειρηνη (eirḗnē) is a Greek noun most often rendered “peace.” Ranging over 6 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Spanning 84 verses in 26 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 10:13. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ειρηνευω and ειρηνικος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
one
Modern gloss
peace
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1515 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 →

84
distinct verses
The word appears in 84 distinct verses.
26 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 10:13
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 10:13.
Revelation 6:4
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 6:4.
#191
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 191 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 84 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 20 · 24%
  • Acts 7 · 8%
  • Pauline Epistles 41 · 49%
  • General Epistles 14 · 17%
  • Revelation 2 · 2%

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 84 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 41 verses · 49%
  • Gospels 20 verses · 24%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 19 verses · 23%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 12%
  • Johannine 9 verses · 11%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 5%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 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: Peace 89×
  • American Standard Version: Peace 84×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Peace 88×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Peace 92×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1515 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Peace” 89×

Plus 3 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 G1515 across 90 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Peace” 84×

Plus 6 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 G1515 across 91 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Peace” 88×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1515 across 93 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Peace” 92×

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 6 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. a state of national tranquillity
  2. peace between individuals, i.e. harmony, concord
  3. security, safety, prosperity, felicity, (because peace and harmony make and keep things safe and prosperous)
  4. the way that leads to peace (salvation)
  5. of Christianity…
  6. the blessed state of devout and upright men after death

Word origin

Origin: probably from a primary verb eiro (to join)

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 08:40,2

Probably from a primary verb εἴρω eirō (to join ); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication prosperity : - one peace quietness rest + set at one again.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 5 distinct written forms G1515 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
εἰρήνη eirḗnē Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 10:13 37
εἰρήνην eirḗnēn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 10:34 25
εἰρήνης eirḗnēs Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Luke 1:79 19
εἰρήνῃ eirḗnē Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Luke 2:29 8
Εἰρήνη Eirḗnē Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Ephesians 6:23 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1515, 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

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ειρηνη appears 212 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 188 verses in 29 books.

212
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
188
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
29 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 29 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1515) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 188. 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 (G1515) 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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