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ἕτερος

another

G2087 Strong's Greek
héteros Transliteration
/het'-er-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 99 appearances

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About this entry

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“another” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective ετερος (héteros). First canonically at Matthew 6:24, it enters the text early. With 94 verses in 16 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It clusters with ετερογλωσσος, ετεροδιδασκαλεω and ετεροζυγεω under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
altered
Modern gloss
another
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 G2087 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 →

94
distinct verses
The word appears in 94 distinct verses.
16 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 6:24
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 6:24.
Jude 1:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Jude 1:7.
#171
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 171 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 94 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 42 · 45%
  • Acts 18 · 19%
  • Pauline Epistles 27 · 29%
  • General Epistles 7 · 7%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 94 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 49 verses · 52%
  • Gospels 42 verses · 45%
  • Pauline corpus 27 verses · 29%
  • Hebrews 5 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 1%

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: Another 42×, Other 30×, Others 11×
  • American Standard Version: Another 34×, Other 27×, Others 12×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Another 31×, Other 25×, Others 17×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Another 32×, Other 32×, Others 13×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2087 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Another” 42×
  • “Other” 30×
  • “Others” 11×
  • “Next” 2×
  • “Some” 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.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2087 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Another” 34×
  • “Other” 27×
  • “Others” 12×
  • “Neighbor” 5×
  • “Different” 4×
  • “Next” 2×

Plus 12 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 G2087 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Another” 31×
  • “Other” 25×
  • “Others” 17×
  • “Different” 5×
  • “Else” 3×
  • “Someone else” 3×
  • “Next” 2×

Plus 10 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.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2087 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Another” 32×
  • “Other” 32×
  • “Others” 13×
  • “Different” 5×
  • “Other seed” 3×
  • “Person” 3×
  • “Other things” 2×
  • “Place” 2×

Plus 15 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. the other, another, other

Word origin

Origin: of uncertain affinity

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 13:42,3

Of uncertain affinity; (an- the) other or different : - altered else next (day) one (an-) other some strange.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 15 distinct written forms G2087 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἕτερον héteron Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 6:24 26
ἕτερος héteros Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:21 15
ἑτέρῳ hetérō Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:30 12
ἑτέρα hetéra Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Luke 17:35 6
ἑτέρου hetérou Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 6:24 6
ἕτεροι héteroi Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 16:14 6
ἑτέρων hetérōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Acts 15:35 5
ἑτέρους hetérous Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 15:30 4
ἑτέρᾳ hetéra Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine Mark 16:12 4
ἕτερα hétera Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 12:45 4
ἑτέραις hetérais Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine Luke 4:43 3
ἑτέραν hetéran Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 10:23 3
ἑτέροις hetérois Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine Acts 2:40 2
ἑτέρας hetéras Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Hebrews 7:13 2
ἕτεραι héterai Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Luke 8:3 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2087, 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

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 ετερος appears 181 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 156 verses in 26 books.

181
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
156
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
26 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2087) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 156. 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 (G2087) 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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