θρόνος
throne
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G2362 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Hebrews. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Hebrews
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, θρονος (thrónos) means “throne.” Its uses cluster heavily in Revelation (73% of all occurrences). Spanning 51 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 5:34. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2362 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 →
- 51
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 51 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #262
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 262 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 51 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 37 verses 73%
- Matthew 4 verses 8%
- Hebrews 4 verses 8%
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 51 distinct verses.
- Johannine 37 verses · 73%
- Revelation 37 verses · 73%
- Gospels 7 verses · 14%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 8%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 2%
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: Throne 50×, Seats 4×, Seat 3×
- American Standard Version: Throne 50×, Thrones 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Throne 52×, Thrones 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Throne 54×, Thrones 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2362 across 61 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 G2362 across 60 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 G2362 across 60 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2362 across 64 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- a chair of state having a footstool
- assigned in the NT to kings, hence, kingly power or royalty
- hence divine power belonging to Christ
Word origin
Origin: "from thrao (to sit), a stately seat ("throne")"
From θράω thraō (to sit ); a stately seat (throne); by implication power or (concretely) a potentate : - seat throne.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G2362 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θρόνου thrónou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 19:28 | 30 |
| θρόνῳ thrónō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 23:22 | 11 |
| θρόνον thrónon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:32 | 7 |
| θρόνος thrónos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 5:34 | 6 |
| θρόνους thrónous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 19:28 | 5 |
| θρόνων thrónōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Luke 1:52 | 2 |
| θρόνοι thrónoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Colossians 1:16 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θρονος appears 130 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 120 verses in 20 books.
- 130
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 120
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 41:40 θρόνος
- Exodus 11:5 θρόνος
- Judges 3:20 θρόνος
- 1 Samuel 2:8 θρόνος
- 2 Samuel 3:10 θρόνος
- 1 Kings 1:13 θρόνος
- 2 Kings 10:3 θρόνος
- 1 Chronicles 17:12 θρόνος
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 θρόνος
- Job 12:18 θρόνος
- Psalms 9:5 θρόνος
- Proverbs 8:27 θρόνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2362) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 120. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 41:40 θρόνος You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
- Exodus 11:5 θρόνος and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- Exodus 12:29 θρόνος It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- Judges 3:20 θρόνος Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. He arose out of his seat.
- 1 Samuel 2:8 θρόνος He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.
- 2 Samuel 3:10 θρόνος to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
- 2 Samuel 7:13 θρόνος He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 2 Samuel 7:16 θρόνος Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
- 2 Samuel 14:9 θρόνος The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
- 1 Kings 1:13 θρόνος Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
- 1 Kings 1:17 θρόνος She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
- 1 Kings 1:20 θρόνος You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
- 1 Kings 1:24 θρόνος Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
- 1 Kings 1:27 θρόνος Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
- 1 Kings 1:30 θρόνος most assuredly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day.
- 1 Kings 1:35 θρόνος Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
- 1 Kings 1:37 θρόνος As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
- 1 Kings 1:46 θρόνος Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
- 1 Kings 1:47 θρόνος Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed.
- 1 Kings 1:48 θρόνος Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.
- 1 Kings 2:4 θρόνος That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
- 1 Kings 2:12 θρόνος Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
- 1 Kings 2:19 θρόνος Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
- 1 Kings 2:24 θρόνος Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
- 1 Kings 2:33 θρόνος So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 2:45 θρόνος But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Yahweh forever.
- 1 Kings 3:6 θρόνος Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
- 1 Kings 5:19 θρόνος
- 1 Kings 7:44 θρόνος and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
- 1 Kings 8:20 θρόνος Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:25 θρόνος Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
- 1 Kings 9:5 θρόνος then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
- 1 Kings 10:9 θρόνος Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.
- 1 Kings 10:18 θρόνος Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
- 1 Kings 10:19 θρόνος There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
- 1 Kings 16:11 θρόνος It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single man-child, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.
- 1 Kings 22:10 θρόνος Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
- 1 Kings 22:19 θρόνος [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
- 2 Kings 10:3 θρόνος look you out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
- 2 Kings 10:30 θρόνος Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
- 2 Kings 11:19 θρόνος He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
- 2 Kings 13:13 θρόνος Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 15:12 θρόνος This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. So it came to pass.
- 2 Kings 25:28 θρόνος and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
- 1 Chronicles 17:12 θρόνος He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:14 θρόνος but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 θρόνος he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
- 1 Chronicles 28:5 θρόνος Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 29:23 θρόνος Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 θρόνος Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2362) 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.
