θαρσέω
to be courageous
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 4 times (57%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 3 times (43%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2293 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 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.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 9:2 θάρσει pres act impv 2sg Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."
- Matthew 9:22 θάρσει pres act impv 2sg But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.
- Matthew 14:27 θαρσεῖτε pres act impv 2pl But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! I AM! Don't be afraid."
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 6:50 θαρσεῖτε pres act impv 2pl for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid."
- Mark 10:49 θάρσει pres act impv 2sg Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"
John 1 verse
Acts 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.
The Greek verb θαρσεω centers on the idea of “to be courageous.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “be of good cheer” in the King James Version, “take courage” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 7 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (43%), then Mark and John. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 9:2. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2293 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 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 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 86%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 14%
- Johannine 1 verse · 14%
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: Be of good cheer 5×, Be of good comfort 3×
- American Standard Version: Be of good cheer 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Take courage 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Take courage 4×, Have courage 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2293 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2293 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2293 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2293 across 7 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 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.
- to be of good courage, be of good cheer
Word origin
Derived from θαρσος (thársos) (G2294) — courage.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2293 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θάρσει thársei | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 9:2 | 4 |
| θαρσεῖτε tharseîte | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 14:27 | 3 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2293, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θαρσεω appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 2 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 17:13 θαρσέω
- Proverbs 1:21 θαρσέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2293) 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.
- 1 Kings 17:13 θαρσέω Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- Proverbs 1:21 θαρσέω She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
- Proverbs 31:11 θαρσέω The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2293) 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.
