Ἤρ
Elmodam
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Elmodam’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G2262 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.
Luke 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.
At its core, Ηρ (Ḗr) means “Elmodam.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Luke 3:28. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2262 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.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 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%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Was the son of er 1×
- American Standard Version: Son of er 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Er 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Er 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2262 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2262 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2262 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2262 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- Er = "watchful"
- the son of Jose and the father of Elmodam
Word origin
Derived from ער (ʻÊr) (H6147) — Er.
Of hebrew origin [ H6147 ]; Er an Israelite : - Er.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Elmodam). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(measure), son of Er, in the genealogy of Joseph. (Luke 3:28)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the God of measure, or of the garment
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Ηρ appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 3 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 38:3 ηρ
- Numbers 21:15 ηρ
- 1 Chronicles 2:3 ηρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2262) 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.
- Genesis 38:3 ηρ She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
- Genesis 38:6 ηρ Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- Genesis 38:7 ηρ Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
- Genesis 46:12 ηρ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 21:15 ηρ The slope of the valleys That inclines toward the dwelling of Ar, Leans on the border of Moab.
- Numbers 26:15 ηρ The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
- 1 Chronicles 2:3 ηρ The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21 ηρ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2262) 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.
