Ἀλέξανδρος
Alexander
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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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G223 appears in the Book of Acts — 2 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.
Acts
- Acts 4:6 Ἀλέξανδρος n nom sg masc Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
- Acts 19:33 Ἀλέξανδρον Ἀλέξανδρος n acc sg masc n nom sg masc They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.
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.
Αλεξανδρος — transliterated Aléxandros — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Alexander.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (40% of all occurrences). Debuting at Mark 15:21, it then recurs through the corpus. 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 G223 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 40%
- Gospels 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Alexander 6×
- American Standard Version: Alexander 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Alexander 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Alexander 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G223 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G223 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G223 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G223 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 5 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.
- Alexander = "man defender"
- son of Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus's cross, Mk 15:21
- a certain man of the kindred of the high priest, Acts 4:6
- a certain Jew, Acts 19:33
- a certain coppersmith who opposed the Apostle Paul, 1 Ti. 1:20
Word origin
Derived from αλεκτωρ (aléktōr) (G220) — rooster.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G223 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἀλέξανδρος Aléxandros | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 4:6 | 4 |
| Ἀλέξανδρον Aléxandron | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 19:33 | 1 |
| Ἀλεξάνδρου Alexándrou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Mark 15:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G223, 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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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Alexander). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Man-defender. (1.) A relative of Annas the high priest, present when Peter and John were examined before the Sanhedrim (Acts 4:6).
(2.) A man whose father, Simon the Cyrenian, bore the cross of Christ (Mark 15:21).
(3.) A Jew of Ephesus who took a prominent part in the uproar raised there by the preaching of Paul (Acts 19:33). The Jews put him forward to plead their cause before the mob. It was probably intended that he should show that he and the other Jews had no sympathy with Paul any more than the Ephesians had. It is possible that this man was the same as the following.
(4.) A coppersmith who, with Hymenaeus and others, promulgated certain heresies regarding the resurrection (1 Tim. 1:19; 2 Tim. 4:14), and made shipwreck of faith and of a good conscience. Paul excommunicated him (1 Tim. 1:20; comp. 1 Cor. 5:5).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
+ Son of Simon the Cyrenian, who was compelled to bear the cross for our Lord. (Mark 15:21) + One of the kindred of Annas the high priest. (Acts 4:6) + A Jew at Ephesus whom his countrymen put forward during the tumult raised by Demetrius the silversmith, (Acts 19:33) to plead their cause with the mob. + An Ephesian Christian reprobated by St. Paul in (1 Timothy 1:20) as having, together with one Hymenaeus, put from him faith and a good conscience, and so made shipwreck concerning the faith. This may be the same with + Alexander the coppersmith, mentioned by the same apostle, (2 Timothy 4:14) as having done him many mischiefs.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
one who assists men
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
