ἔλεγχος
proof
‘proof’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1650 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
ελεγχος — transliterated élenchos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “proof.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Timothy (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in 2 Timothy 3:16. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. 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 G1650 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 50%
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: Evidence 1×, Reproof 1×
- American Standard Version: Conviction 1×, Reproof 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Certainty 1×, Conviction 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Proof 1×, Reproof 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1650 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1650 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1650 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1650 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- a proof, that by which a thing is proved or tested
- conviction
Word origin
Derived from ελεγχω (elénchō) (G1651) — to convict.
From G1651 ; proof conviction : - evidence reproof.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1650 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐλεγμόν elegmón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Timothy 3:16 | 1 |
| ἔλεγχος élenchos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 11:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1650, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ελεγχος appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 6 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 6:26 ἔλεγχος
- Psalms 72:14 ἔλεγχος
- Proverbs 1:23 ἔλεγχος
- Ezekiel 13:14 ἔλεγχος
- Hosea 5:9 ἔλεγχος
- Habakkuk 2:1 ἔλεγχος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1650) 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.
- Job 6:26 ἔλεγχος Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
- Job 13:6 ἔλεγχος Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
- Job 16:21 ἔλεγχος That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
- Job 23:4 ἔλεγχος I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 23:7 ἔλεγχος There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.
- Psalms 72:14 ἔλεγχος He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
- Proverbs 1:23 ἔλεγχος Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
- Proverbs 1:25 ἔλεγχος But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof;
- Proverbs 1:30 ἔλεγχος They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
- Proverbs 5:12 ἔλεγχος And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
- Proverbs 6:23 ἔλεγχος For the commandment is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
- Proverbs 12:1 ἔλεγχος Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.
- Proverbs 13:18 ἔλεγχος Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, But he who heeds correction shall be honored.
- Proverbs 15:10 ἔλεγχος There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: Whoever hates reproof shall die.
- Proverbs 15:32 ἔλεγχος He who refuses correction despises his own soul, But he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
- Proverbs 16:13 ἔλεγχος Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
- Proverbs 27:5 ἔλεγχος Better is open rebuke Than hidden love.
- Proverbs 28:13 ἔλεγχος He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
- Proverbs 29:1 ἔλεγχος He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
- Proverbs 29:15 ἔλεγχος The rod of correction gives wisdom, But a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
- Ezekiel 13:14 ἔλεγχος So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Hosea 5:9 ἔλεγχος Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
- Habakkuk 2:1 ἔλεγχος I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1650) 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.
