ἕτερος
another
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- 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.
2 verses where G2087 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew
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.
“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
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.
- #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
- Luke 31 verses 33%
- Acts 18 verses 19%
- 1 Corinthians 10 verses 11%
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- the other, another, other
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
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.
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
- ετερογλωσσος heteróglōssos G2084 foreigner
- ετεροδιδασκαλεω heterodidaskaléō G2085 to teach differently
- ετεροζυγεω heterozygéō G2086 to be unequally yoked
- ετερως hetérōs G2088 otherwise
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
- Genesis 4:25 ἕτερος
- Exodus 1:8 ἕτερος
- Leviticus 14:42 ἕτερος
- Numbers 14:4 ἕτερος
- Deuteronomy 4:28 ἕτερος
- Joshua 23:16 ἕτερος
- Judges 2:10 ἕτερος
- Ruth 2:8 ἕτερος
- 1 Samuel 8:8 ἕτερος
- 2 Samuel 18:26 ἕτερος
- 1 Kings 3:22 ἕτερος
- 2 Kings 5:17 ἕτερος
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.
- Genesis 4:25 ἕτερος Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 8:10 ἕτερος He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
- Genesis 8:12 ἕτερος He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
- Genesis 17:21 ἕτερος But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
- Genesis 26:21 ἕτερος They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called the name of it Sitnah.
- Genesis 26:22 ἕτερος He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 29:19 ἕτερος Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
- Genesis 29:27 ἕτερος Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
- Genesis 29:30 ἕτερος He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 30:24 ἕτερος She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
- Genesis 31:49 ἕτερος and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
- Genesis 37:9 ἕτερος He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
- Genesis 41:19 ἕτερος and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
- Genesis 42:13 ἕτερος They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
- Genesis 43:22 ἕτερος We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
- Exodus 1:8 ἕτερος Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.
- Exodus 16:15 ἕτερος When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."
- Exodus 20:3 ἕτερος You shall have no other gods before me.
- Exodus 22:4 ἕτερος If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
- Exodus 23:13 ἕτερος "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.
- Exodus 26:3 ἕτερος Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
- Exodus 26:6 ἕτερος You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
- Exodus 26:17 ἕτερος There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.
- Exodus 26:28 ἕτερος The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
- Exodus 28:7 ἕτερος It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.
- Exodus 30:9 ἕτερος You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.
- Exodus 34:14 ἕτερος for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Leviticus 14:42 ἕτερος They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
- Leviticus 27:20 ἕτερος If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
- Numbers 14:4 ἕτερος They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- Numbers 14:24 ἕτερος but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- Numbers 36:9 ἕτερος So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 4:28 ἕτερος There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Deuteronomy 5:7 ἕτερος You shall have no other gods before me.
- Deuteronomy 6:14 ἕτερος You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
- Deuteronomy 7:4 ἕτερος For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
- Deuteronomy 8:19 ἕτερος It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
- Deuteronomy 11:16 ἕτερος Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Deuteronomy 11:28 ἕτερος and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 13:3 ἕτερος you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 13:7 ἕτερος of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
- Deuteronomy 13:14 ἕτερος then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
- Deuteronomy 17:3 ἕτερος and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of the sky, which I have not commanded;
- Deuteronomy 18:20 ἕτερος But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
- Deuteronomy 20:5 ἕτερος The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- Deuteronomy 20:6 ἕτερος What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
- Deuteronomy 20:7 ἕτερος What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
- Deuteronomy 24:2 ἕτερος When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
- Deuteronomy 28:14 ἕτερος and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- Deuteronomy 28:30 ἕτερος You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
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.
