ἔσωθεν
inside
‘inside’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G2081 appears in the Book of Luke — 3 distinct verses. 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.
Luke
- Luke 11:7 ἔσωθεν adv and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?
- Luke 11:39 ἔσωθεν adv The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
- Luke 11:40 ἔσωθεν adv You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside also?
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.
εσωθεν — transliterated ésōthen — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “inside.” Its English rendering has broadened — “within” classically, “inside” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 12 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (33% of all occurrences). Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 12-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2081 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 75%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 25%
- Johannine 2 verses · 17%
- Revelation 2 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 8%
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: Within 8×
- American Standard Version: Within 7×, Inwardly 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Inside 6×, Within 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Inside 7×, Within 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2081 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2081 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G2081 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2081 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 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.
- from within
- within, that which is within, the inside
Word origin
Derived from εσω (ésō) (G2080) — within.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2081, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εσωθεν appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 22 verses in 8 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 22
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:14 ἔσωθεν
- Exodus 25:11 ἔσωθεν
- Leviticus 14:41 ἔσωθεν
- 1 Kings 6:15 ἔσωθεν
- 2 Kings 6:30 ἔσωθεν
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 ἔσωθεν
- Psalms 44:14 ἔσωθεν
- Ezekiel 7:15 ἔσωθεν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2081) 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.
- Genesis 6:14 ἔσωθεν Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Exodus 25:11 ἔσωθεν You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 36:26 ἔσωθεν and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 38:2 ἔσωθεν He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
- Leviticus 14:41 ἔσωθεν and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
- 1 Kings 6:15 ἔσωθεν He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
- 1 Kings 6:19 ἔσωθεν He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 7:46 ἔσωθεν In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
- 2 Kings 6:30 ἔσωθεν It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
- 2 Kings 11:15 ἔσωθεν Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 ἔσωθεν The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- Psalms 44:14 ἔσωθεν You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Ezekiel 7:15 ἔσωθεν The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
- Ezekiel 40:9 ἔσωθεν Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
- Ezekiel 40:15 ἔσωθεν [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:16 ἔσωθεν There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:19 ἔσωθεν Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.
- Ezekiel 40:22 ἔσωθεν The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.
- Ezekiel 40:26 ἔσωθεν There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.
- Ezekiel 40:43 ἔσωθεν The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
- Ezekiel 41:17 ἔσωθεν to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
- Ezekiel 42:15 ἔσωθεν Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2081) 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.