ἕκαστος
each
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1538 appears in the Book of Mark — 1 distinct verse. 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.
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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
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.
- #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
- 1 Corinthians 19 verses 25%
- Acts 11 verses 14%
- Revelation 7 verses 9%
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- each, every
Word origin
Origin: as if a superlative of hekas (afar)
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.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 10:5 ἕκαστος
- Exodus 1:1 ἕκαστος
- Leviticus 7:10 ἕκαστος
- Numbers 1:4 ἕκαστος
- Deuteronomy 1:41 ἕκαστος
- Joshua 1:15 ἕκαστος
- Ruth 1:8 ἕκαστος
- 1 Samuel 4:10 ἕκαστος
- 2 Samuel 2:3 ἕκαστος
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἕκαστος
- 2 Kings 9:13 ἕκαστος
- 1 Chronicles 16:43 ἕκαστος
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.
- Genesis 10:5 ἕκαστος Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
- Genesis 11:7 ἕκαστος Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 13:11 ἕκαστος So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 34:25 ἕκαστος It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
- Genesis 37:19 ἕκαστος They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
- Genesis 41:11 ἕκαστος We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 42:21 ἕκαστος They said one to another, "We are most assuredly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come on us."
- Genesis 42:25 ἕκαστος Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Genesis 42:35 ἕκαστος It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Genesis 43:21 ἕκαστος and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.
- Genesis 43:33 ἕκαστος They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.
- Genesis 44:1 ἕκαστος He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 44:11 ἕκαστος Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
- Genesis 44:13 ἕκαστος Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.
- Genesis 49:28 ἕκαστος All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
- Exodus 1:1 ἕκαστος Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
- Exodus 5:4 ἕκαστος The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"
- Exodus 5:8 ἕκαστος The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
- Exodus 7:12 ἕκαστος For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
- Exodus 11:2 ἕκαστος Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
- Exodus 12:3 ἕκαστος Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
- Exodus 12:4 ἕκαστος and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:22 ἕκαστος You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
- Exodus 16:16 ἕκαστος This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
- Exodus 16:18 ἕκαστος When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
- Exodus 16:21 ἕκαστος They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
- Exodus 16:29 ἕκαστος Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
- Exodus 18:16 ἕκαστος When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."
- Exodus 26:5 ἕκαστος You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another.
- Exodus 28:21 ἕκαστος The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 30:12 ἕκαστος "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
- Exodus 32:27 ἕκαστος He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor."
- Exodus 32:29 ἕκαστος Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."
- Exodus 33:8 ἕκαστος It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
- Exodus 33:10 ἕκαστος All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
- Exodus 35:21 ἕκαστος They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 36:4 ἕκαστος All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which they did.
- Exodus 36:21 ἕκαστος Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
- Leviticus 7:10 ἕκαστος Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
- Leviticus 10:1 ἕκαστος Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Leviticus 19:3 ἕκαστος "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 19:11 ἕκαστος "'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
- Leviticus 25:10 ἕκαστος You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Leviticus 25:13 ἕκαστος "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
- Leviticus 25:46 ἕκαστος You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
- Numbers 1:4 ἕκαστος With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
- Numbers 2:17 ἕκαστος "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
- Numbers 2:34 ἕκαστος Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
- Numbers 4:19 ἕκαστος but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;
- Numbers 5:10 ἕκαστος Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his."
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.
