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ἕκαστος

each

G1538 Strong's Greek
hékastos Transliteration
/hek'-as-tos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 82 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.

The Greek adjective εκαστος centers on the idea of “each.” Its English rendering has broadened — “every man” classically, “each” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 77 verses — moderately common. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 19 of 77 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 16:27. Dig into 77-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
any
Modern gloss
each
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 G1538 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 →

77
distinct verses
The word appears in 77 distinct verses.
18 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 16:27
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 16:27.
Revelation 22:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:12.
#207
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 207 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 77 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 14 · 18%
  • Acts 11 · 14%
  • Pauline Epistles 38 · 49%
  • General Epistles 7 · 9%
  • Revelation 7 · 9%

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 77 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 38 verses · 49%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 16 verses · 21%
  • Gospels 14 verses · 18%
  • Johannine 11 verses · 14%
  • Revelation 7 verses · 9%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 4%

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: Every man 33×, Every 18×, Every one 17×
  • American Standard Version: Each 19×, Each man 12×, Each one 12×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Each 45×, Each one 15×, Everyone 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Each 38×, Each one 35×, Each of you 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1538 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Every man” 33×
  • “Every” 18×
  • “Every one” 17×
  • “Every man's” 3×
  • “Every one of them” 2×

Plus 6 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 4 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1538 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Each” 19×
  • “Each man” 12×
  • “Each one” 12×
  • “Every man” 8×
  • “Every” 6×
  • “Let each man” 5×
  • “Every one” 3×
  • “One” 2×

Plus 11 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.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1538 across 74 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Each” 45×
  • “Each one” 15×
  • “Everyone” 2×

Plus 12 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 6 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1538 across 84 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Each” 38×
  • “Each one” 35×
  • “Each of you” 3×

Plus 8 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.

  1. each, every

Word origin

Origin: as if a superlative of hekas (afar)

Part of speech: Adjective

As if a superlative of ἕκας hekas ( afar ); each or every : - any both each (one) every (man one woman) particularly.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G1538 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἕκαστος hékastos Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 18:35 38
ἑκάστῳ hekástō Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 16:27 19
ἕκαστον hékaston Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Luke 16:5 13
ἑκάστου hekástou Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 17:27 7
ἕκαστοι hékastoi Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Philippians 2:4 2
εκαστος ekastos Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 7:53 1
ἑκάστη hekástē Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 Corinthians 7:2 1
ἑκάστην hekástēn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Hebrews 3:13 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1538, 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.

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Proper names from this root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εκαστος appears 265 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 235 verses in 28 books.

265
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
235
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
28 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1538) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 235. 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 (G1538) 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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