ἀληθινός
genuine
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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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- 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.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G228 appears in the Book of Revelation — 10 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 3:7 ἀληθινός adj nom sg masc "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
- Revelation 3:14 ἀληθινός adj nom sg masc "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:
- Revelation 6:10 ἀληθινός adj nom sg masc They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
- Revelation 15:3 ἀληθιναὶ adj nom pl fem They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Revelation 16:7 ἀληθιναὶ adj nom pl fem I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."
- Revelation 19:2 ἀληθιναὶ adj nom pl fem for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
- Revelation 19:9 ἀληθινοὶ adj nom pl masc He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."
- Revelation 19:11 ἀληθινός adj nom sg masc I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
- Revelation 21:5 ἀληθινοί adj nom pl masc He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
- Revelation 22:6 ἀληθινοί adj nom pl masc He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon."
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, αληθινος (alēthinós) means “genuine.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 16:11. With 26 verses in 6 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (38% of all occurrences). Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 26-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G228 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 →
- 26
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 26 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #485
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 485 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 26 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 10 verses 38%
- John 9 verses 35%
- Hebrews 3 verses 12%
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 26 distinct verses.
- Johannine 21 verses · 81%
- Gospels 10 verses · 38%
- Revelation 10 verses · 38%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 12%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 8%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 4%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 4%
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: True 24×, Is true 2×
- American Standard Version: True 22×, Is true 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: True 27×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: True 22×, True one 3×, Are true 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G228 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G228 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G228 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G228 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- that which has not only the name and resemblance…
- true, veracious, sincere
Word origin
Derived from αληθης (alēthḗs) (G227) — true.
From G227 ; truthful : - true.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms G228 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀληθινός alēthinós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 4:37 | 5 |
| ἀληθινὸν alēthinòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 17:3 | 3 |
| ἀληθινόν alēthinón | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 6:32 | 3 |
| ἀληθιναὶ alēthinaì | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 15:3 | 3 |
| ἀληθινή alēthinḗ | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 8:16 | 2 |
| ἀληθινοί alēthinoí | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 21:5 | 2 |
| ἀληθινοὶ alēthinoì | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | John 4:23 | 2 |
| ἀληθινὸς alēthinòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 7:28 | 2 |
| ἀληθινῆς alēthinē̂s | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 8:2 | 2 |
| ἀληθινῷ alēthinō̂ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Thessalonians 1:9 | 2 |
| ἀληθινὴ alēthinḕ | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 19:35 | 1 |
| ἀληθινῶν alēthinō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 9:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G228, 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
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 αληθινος appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 13 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 32
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 34:6 ἀληθινός
- Numbers 14:18 ἀληθινός
- Deuteronomy 25:15 ἀληθινός
- 2 Samuel 7:28 ἀληθινός
- 1 Kings 10:6 ἀληθινός
- 2 Chronicles 9:5 ἀληθινός
- Job 1:1 ἀληθινός
- Psalms 18:10 ἀληθινός
- Proverbs 12:19 ἀληθινός
- Isaiah 25:1 ἀληθινός
- Jeremiah 2:21 ἀληθινός
- Daniel 3:27 ἀληθινός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G228) 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.
- Exodus 34:6 ἀληθινός Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Numbers 14:18 ἀληθινός Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 ἀληθινός A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 32:4 ἀληθινός The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
- 2 Samuel 7:28 ἀληθινός Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant:
- 1 Kings 10:6 ἀληθινός She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
- 1 Kings 17:24 ἀληθινός The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
- 2 Chronicles 9:5 ἀληθινός She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
- 2 Chronicles 15:3 ἀληθινός Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
- Job 1:1 ἀληθινός There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Job 1:8 ἀληθινός Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
- Job 2:3 ἀληθινός Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
- Job 4:7 ἀληθινός "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
- Job 4:12 ἀληθινός "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.
- Job 6:25 ἀληθινός How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
- Job 8:6 ἀληθινός If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Job 8:21 ἀληθινός He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.
- Job 17:8 ἀληθινός Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
- Job 27:17 ἀληθινός He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.
- Psalms 18:10 ἀληθινός He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 85:15 ἀληθινός
- Proverbs 12:19 ἀληθινός Truth's lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only momentary.
- Isaiah 25:1 ἀληθινός Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
- Isaiah 38:3 ἀληθινός and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- Isaiah 57:18 ἀληθινός I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
- Isaiah 59:4 ἀληθινός None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Isaiah 65:2 ἀληθινός I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
- Isaiah 65:16 ἀληθινός so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
- Jeremiah 2:21 ἀληθινός Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Daniel 3:27 ἀληθινός The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.
- Daniel 3:31 ἀληθινός
- Zechariah 8:3 ἀληθινός Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of Yahweh of Hosts, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G228) 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.
