εἷς
one
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
27 verses where G1520 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
- Matthew 5:19 μίαν adj acc sg fem Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matthew 5:36 μίαν adj acc sg fem Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.
- Matthew 5:41 ἕν adj acc sg neut Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
- Matthew 6:24 ἕνα ἑνὸς adj acc sg masc adj gen sg masc "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
- Matthew 6:27 ἕνα adj acc sg masc "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to the measure of his life?
- Matthew 6:29 ἓν adj acc sg neut yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
- Matthew 10:42 ἕνα adj acc sg masc Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
- Matthew 12:11 ἕν adj acc sg neut He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?
- Matthew 13:46 ἕνα adj acc sg masc who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
- Matthew 16:14 ἕνα adj acc sg masc They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
- Matthew 17:4 μίαν μίαν μίαν adj acc sg fem adj acc sg fem adj acc sg fem Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
- Matthew 18:5 ἓν adj acc sg neut Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
- Matthew 18:6 ἕνα adj acc sg masc but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
- Matthew 18:16 ἕνα adj acc sg masc But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
- Matthew 18:28 ἕνα adj acc sg masc "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 19:5 μίαν adj acc sg fem and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'
- Matthew 20:12 μίαν adj acc sg fem saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'
- Matthew 21:19 μίαν adj acc sg fem Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
- Matthew 21:24 ἕνα adj acc sg masc Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
- Matthew 23:15 ἕνα adj acc sg masc Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
- Matthew 25:15 ἕν adj acc sg neut To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
- Matthew 25:18 ἓν adj acc sg neut But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
- Matthew 25:24 ἓν adj acc sg neut "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
- Matthew 26:40 μίαν adj acc sg fem He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?
- Matthew 27:14 ἓν adj acc sg neut He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
- Matthew 27:15 ἕνα adj acc sg masc Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.
- Matthew 28:1 μίαν adj acc sg fem Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
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.
εις — transliterated heîs — is a Greek word carrying the sense “one.” It first appears in Matthew 5:18. The Greek New Testament uses it across 284 verses — common. Related forms include εις καθ' εις, ενδεκα and ενοτης. See the sense tree, 284-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1520 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 →
- 284
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 284 distinct verses.
- 21 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 21 of 27 New Testament books.
- #53
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 53 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 284 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 284 distinct verses.
- Gospels 163 verses · 57%
- Pauline corpus 69 verses · 24%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 59 verses · 21%
- Johannine 57 verses · 20%
- Revelation 22 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 2%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 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: One 213×, A 7×, Other 6×
- American Standard Version: One 269×, A 12×, First 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: One 236×, A 18×, Single 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: One 299×, First 8×, Is one 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1520 across 263 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 9 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1520 across 340 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 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 2 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1520 across 312 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 27 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1520 across 345 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 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.
- one
Word origin
Origin: (including the neuter [etc.] hen)
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G1520 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἷς heîs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 8:19 | 97 |
| ἓν hèn | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 5:18 | 47 |
| ἕνα héna | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:24 | 42 |
| μίαν mían | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:19 | 36 |
| ἑνὸς henòs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:24 | 30 |
| ἑνὶ henì | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 20:13 | 21 |
| μιᾷ miâ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 16:2 | 18 |
| μία mía | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:18 | 17 |
| ἕν hén | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Mark 10:21 | 15 |
| μιᾶς miâs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 14:18 | 8 |
| ἑνός henós | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Romans 3:12 | 3 |
| Εἷς Heîs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 23:39 | 1 |
| ἑνί hení | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | James 2:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1520, 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
- εις καθ' εις heîs kath’ heîs G1527 one after another
- ενδεκα héndeka G1733 eleven
- ενοτης henótēs G1775 unity
- μια mía G3391 one
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εις appears 845 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 685 verses in 33 books.
- 845
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 685
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:5 εἷς
- Exodus 1:15 εἷς
- Leviticus 4:2 εἷς
- Numbers 1:1 εἷς
- Deuteronomy 1:3 εἷς
- Joshua 3:12 εἷς
- Judges 4:16 εἷς
- Ruth 1:4 εἷς
- 1 Samuel 1:2 εἷς
- 2 Samuel 1:15 εἷς
- 1 Kings 2:16 εἷς
- 2 Kings 2:16 εἷς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1520) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 685. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:5 εἷς God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
- Genesis 1:9 εἷς God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 2:11 εἷς The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:21 εἷς Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 2:24 εἷς Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 3:22 εἷς Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 4:19 εἷς Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- Genesis 8:13 εἷς It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 10:25 εἷς To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
- Genesis 11:1 εἷς The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- Genesis 11:6 εἷς Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 19:9 εἷς They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 21:15 εἷς The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
- Genesis 22:2 εἷς He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
- Genesis 22:13 εἷς Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
- Genesis 24:36 εἷς Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
- Genesis 27:38 εἷς Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 27:45 εἷς until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Genesis 32:9 εἷς Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'
- Genesis 33:13 εἷς Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
- Genesis 34:16 εἷς then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
- Genesis 34:22 εἷς Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 37:20 εἷς Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
- Genesis 38:28 εἷς It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
- Genesis 40:5 εἷς They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
- Genesis 41:5 εἷς He slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
- Genesis 41:11 εἷς We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 41:22 εἷς I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
- Genesis 41:25 εἷς Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:26 εἷς The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
- Genesis 42:11 εἷς We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
- Genesis 42:16 εἷς Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
- Genesis 42:19 εἷς If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
- Genesis 42:27 εἷς As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
- Genesis 42:32 εἷς We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
- Genesis 42:33 εἷς The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
- Genesis 43:14 εἷς May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
- Genesis 44:28 εἷς and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
- Genesis 49:16 εἷς "Dan will judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 1:15 εἷς The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
- Exodus 10:19 εἷς Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
- Exodus 11:1 εἷς Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
- Exodus 12:18 εἷς In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
- Exodus 12:46 εἷς In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
- Exodus 12:49 εἷς One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."
- Exodus 14:28 εἷς The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 16:22 εἷς It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 16:33 εἷς Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
- Exodus 17:12 εἷς But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
- Exodus 18:3 εἷς and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1520) 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.
