ἧλος
nail
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2247 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
John 1 verse
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.
“nail” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ηλος (hēlos). The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in John. Its lone occurrence is John 20:25. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2247 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Johannine 1 verse · 100%
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: Nails 2×
- American Standard Version: Nails 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nail 1×, Nails 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nails 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2247 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2247 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2247 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2247 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a nail
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; a stud that is spike : - nail.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ηλος appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 8 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- 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
- Joshua 23:13 ἧλος
- 1 Kings 7:36 ἧλος
- 2 Kings 12:14 ἧλος
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 ἧλος
- 2 Chronicles 3:9 ἧλος
- Ecclesiastes 12:11 ἧλος
- Isaiah 41:7 ἧλος
- Jeremiah 10:4 ἧλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2247) 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.
- Joshua 23:13 ἧλος know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
- 1 Kings 7:36 ἧλος On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
- 2 Kings 12:14 ἧλος for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 ἧλος David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
- 2 Chronicles 3:9 ἧλος The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- Ecclesiastes 12:11 ἧλος The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
- Isaiah 41:7 ἧλος So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.
- Jeremiah 10:4 ἧλος They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2247) 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.
