θαῤῥέω
to be of good courage
‘to be of good courage’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 2 times (33%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2292 appears — 6 distinct verses across 2 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.
2 Corinthians 5 verses
- 2 Corinthians 5:6 θαρροῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
- 2 Corinthians 5:8 θαρροῦμεν pres act ind 1pl We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
- 2 Corinthians 7:16 θαρρῶ pres act ind 1sg I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:1 θαρρῶ pres act ind 1sg Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:2 θαρρῆσαι aor act inf Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
Hebrews 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.
θαρρεω (tharrhéō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to be of good courage.” 2 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 5 of 6 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. It first appears in 2 Corinthians 5:6. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2292 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 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 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 5 verses 83%
- Hebrews 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 83%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 17%
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: Am bold 1×, Be bold 1×, Confident 1×
- American Standard Version: Good courage 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bold 1×, Confidence 1×, I can have complete confidence 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Am bold 1×, Being confident 1×, Being courageous 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2292 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2292 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G2292 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2292 across 7 tagged occurrences — 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.
- to be of good courage, be of good cheer
- to be bold
Word origin
Derived from θαρσεω (tharséō) (G2293) — to be courageous.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2292 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θαρρῶ tharrō̂ | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 7:16 | 2 |
| θαρροῦμεν tharroûmen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 5:8 | 1 |
| θαρροῦντας tharroûntas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 13:6 | 1 |
| θαρροῦντες tharroûntes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 5:6 | 1 |
| θαρρῆσαι tharrē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 2 Corinthians 10:2 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θαρρεω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 7 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 35:17 θαρρέω
- Exodus 14:13 θαρρέω
- Daniel 6:17 θαρρέω
- Joel 2:21 θαρρέω
- Zephaniah 3:16 θαρρέω
- Haggai 2:5 θαρρέω
- Zechariah 8:13 θαρρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2292) 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 35:17 θαρρέω It happened that, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
- Exodus 14:13 θαρρέω Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
- Exodus 20:20 θαρρέω Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
- Daniel 6:17 θαρρέω A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
- Joel 2:21 θαρρέω Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
- Joel 2:22 θαρρέω Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; For the pastures of the wilderness spring up, For the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
- Zephaniah 3:16 θαρρέω In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don't be afraid, Zion. Don't let your hands be slack."
- Haggai 2:5 θαρρέω This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. Don't be afraid.'
- Zechariah 8:13 θαρρέω It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
- Zechariah 8:15 θαρρέω so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2292) 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.
