ἤ
or
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
- Particle
- A short, often untranslatable function word adding nuance or connection.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–274 of 274 distinct verses where G2228 appears, across 24 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.
1 Corinthians 40 verses
- 1 Corinthians 12:21 ἢ ptcl The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."
- 1 Corinthians 13:1 ἢ ptcl If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
- 1 Corinthians 14:5 ἢ ptcl Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
- 1 Corinthians 14:6 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
- 1 Corinthians 14:7 ἢ ptcl Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
- 1 Corinthians 14:19 ἢ ptcl However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 ἢ ptcl If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
- 1 Corinthians 14:24 ἢ ptcl But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
- 1 Corinthians 14:27 ἢ ptcl If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
- 1 Corinthians 14:29 ἢ ptcl Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
- 1 Corinthians 14:36 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 ἢ ptcl If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 15:37 ἤ ptcl That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
- 1 Corinthians 16:6 ἢ ptcl But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.
2 Corinthians 11 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:13 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;
- 2 Corinthians 1:17 ἢ ptcl When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
- 2 Corinthians 3:1 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 ἢ ptcl Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 ἢ ptcl What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
- 2 Corinthians 9:7 ἢ ptcl Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
- 2 Corinthians 10:12 ἢ ptcl For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- 2 Corinthians 11:7 ἢ ptcl Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Gospel free of charge?
- 2 Corinthians 12:6 ἢ ptcl For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, so that no man may account of me above that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 ἢ ptcl Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
Galatians 7 verses
- Galatians 1:8 ἢ ptcl But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any gospel other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
- Galatians 1:10 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
- Galatians 2:2 ἢ ptcl I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
- Galatians 3:2 ἢ ptcl I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:5 ἢ ptcl He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:15 ἢ ptcl Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
- Galatians 4:27 ἢ ptcl For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."
Ephesians 5 verses
- Ephesians 3:20 ἢ ptcl Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- Ephesians 5:3 ἢ ptcl But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
- Ephesians 5:4 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
- Ephesians 5:5 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
- Ephesians 5:27 ἢ ἤ ptcl ptcl that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 2:16 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
- Colossians 3:17 ἢ ptcl Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 4 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:4 ἢ ptcl neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
- 1 Timothy 2:9 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
- 1 Timothy 5:4 ἢ ptcl But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
- 1 Timothy 5:19 ἢ ptcl Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
2 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 2 verses
Philemon 1 verse
Hebrews 4 verses
- Hebrews 2:6 ἢ ptcl But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
- Hebrews 10:28 ἢ ptcl A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
- Hebrews 11:25 ἢ ptcl choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
- Hebrews 12:16 ἢ ptcl lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
James 8 verses
- James 1:17 ἢ ptcl Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
- James 2:3 ἢ ptcl and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"
- James 2:15 ἢ ptcl And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
- James 3:12 ἢ ptcl Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
- James 4:5 ἢ ptcl Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
- James 4:11 ἢ ptcl Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
- James 4:13 ἢ ptcl Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
- James 4:15 ἢ ptcl For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
1 Peter 6 verses
- 1 Peter 1:11 ἢ ptcl searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
- 1 Peter 1:18 ἢ ptcl knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- 1 Peter 3:3 ἢ ptcl Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
- 1 Peter 3:9 ἢ ptcl not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
- 1 Peter 3:17 ἢ ptcl For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
- 1 Peter 4:15 ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters.
2 Peter 1 verse
1 John 1 verse
Revelation 4 verses
- Revelation 3:15 ἢ ptcl "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
- Revelation 13:16 ἢ ptcl He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
- Revelation 13:17 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.
- Revelation 14:9 ἢ ptcl Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,
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.
At its core, η (ḗ) means “or.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:18. It appears 274 verses across 24 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. It clusters with η, ηδη and ηπερ under a shared root. 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 G2228 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 →
- 274
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 274 distinct verses.
- 24 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
- #51
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 51 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 274 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 48 verses 18%
- Luke 40 verses 15%
- 1 Corinthians 40 verses 15%
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 274 distinct verses.
- Gospels 122 verses · 45%
- Pauline corpus 98 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 70 verses · 26%
- Johannine 17 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 16 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 1%
- Revelation 4 verses · 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: Or 258×, Than 32×, Either 9×
- American Standard Version: Or 242×, Than 27×, Rather than 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or 238×, Than 32×, Than for 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Or 291×, Than 34×, Either 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2228 across 338 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 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 19 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2228 across 323 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 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 G2228 across 290 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 52 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2228 across 347 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.
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.
- either, or, than
Word origin
Origin: a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms
A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive or ; comparative than : - and but (either) (n-) either except it be (n-) or (else) rather save than that what yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially G2235 G2260 G2273 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2228 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἢ ḕ | Particle | Matthew 1:18 | 333 |
| ἤ ḗ | Particle | Matthew 6:31 | 9 |
| Ἢ Ḕ | Particle | Matthew 12:33 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2228, 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 η appears 810 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 639 verses in 36 books.
- 810
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 639
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 36 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:9 ἤ
- Exodus 1:19 ἤ
- Leviticus 1:14 ἤ
- Numbers 5:6 ἤ
- Deuteronomy 1:39 ἤ
- Joshua 2:8 ἤ
- Judges 2:22 ἤ
- Ruth 1:13 ἤ
- 1 Samuel 2:10 ἤ
- 2 Samuel 2:21 ἤ
- 1 Kings 2:42 ἤ
- 2 Kings 2:9 ἤ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2228) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 639. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:9 ἤ They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:12 ἤ The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 21:26 ἤ Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
- Genesis 22:17 ἦ that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 24:21 ἤ The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Genesis 24:38 ἤ but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
- Genesis 24:49 ἤ Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 26:11 ἤ Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Genesis 27:21 ἤ Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 28:17 ἤ He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
- Genesis 29:19 ἤ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
- Genesis 29:26 ἤ Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born.
- Genesis 29:30 ἤ He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 31:14 ἤ Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
- Genesis 31:43 ἤ Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Genesis 37:8 ἤ His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
- Genesis 37:32 ἤ They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
- Genesis 38:26 ἤ Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
- Genesis 42:16 ἤἦ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
- Genesis 44:8 ἤ Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Genesis 44:16 ἤ Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
- Genesis 44:19 ἤ My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
- Genesis 45:8 ἤ So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 47:18 ἤ When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Genesis 49:12 ἤ His eyes will be red with wine, His teeth white with milk.
- Exodus 1:19 ἤ The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
- Exodus 5:3 ἤ They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 7:9 ἤ "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"
- Exodus 10:7 ἤ Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
- Exodus 12:9 ἤ Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
- Exodus 12:44 ἤ but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
- Exodus 12:45 ἤ A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
- Exodus 13:12 ἤ that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh's.
- Exodus 14:12 ἤ Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
- Exodus 16:4 ἤ Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 16:8 ἤ Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
- Exodus 17:7 ἤ He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
- Exodus 19:13 ἤ No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
- Exodus 21:4 ἤ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 21:15 ἤ "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:16 ἤ "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:18 ἤ "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
- Exodus 21:20 ἤ "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
- Exodus 21:21 ἤ Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
- Exodus 21:26 ἤ "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- Exodus 21:27 ἤ If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- Exodus 21:28 ἤ "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
- Exodus 21:29 ἤ But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
- Exodus 21:31 ἤ Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
- Exodus 21:32 ἤ If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2228) 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.
