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ἴδιος

one's own

G2398 Strong's Greek
ídios Transliteration
/id'-ee-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 114 appearances

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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 adjective ιδιος centers on the idea of “one's own.” Debuting at Matthew 9:1, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 109 verses in 18 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ιδιωτης. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
his acquaintance
Modern gloss
one's own
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2398 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 →

109
distinct verses
The word appears in 109 distinct verses.
18 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 9:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 9:1.
Jude 1:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Jude 1:6.
#145
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 145 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 109 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 38 · 35%
  • Acts 16 · 15%
  • Pauline Epistles 40 · 37%
  • General Epistles 15 · 14%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 109 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 40 verses · 37%
  • Gospels 38 verses · 35%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 22 verses · 20%
  • Johannine 14 verses · 13%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 11 verses · 10%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 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: Own 74×, His 4×, Due 3×
  • American Standard Version: Own 62×, Apart 6×, His 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Own 70×, Privately 10×, His 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Own 88×, Themselves 6×, Himself 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2398 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Own” 74×
  • “His” 4×
  • “Due” 3×
  • “Home” 2×
  • “Proper” 2×
  • “Their” 2×

Plus 11 renderings that appear 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 15 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2398 across 108 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Own” 62×
  • “Apart” 6×
  • “His” 6×
  • “Privately” 5×
  • “Their” 2×

Plus 27 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 G2398 across 95 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Own” 70×
  • “Privately” 10×
  • “His” 3×
  • “Themselves” 3×

Plus 9 renderings that appear 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 19 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2398 across 112 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Own” 88×
  • “Themselves” 6×
  • “Himself” 5×
  • “Privately” 4×

Plus 9 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 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.

  1. pertaining to one's self, one's own, belonging to one's self

Word origin

Origin: of uncertain affinity

Part of speech: Adjective

Of uncertain affinity; pertaining to self that is one's own ; by implication private or separate : - X his acquaintance when they were alone apart aside due his (own proper several) home (her our thine your) own (business) private (-ly) proper severally their (own).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 13 distinct written forms G2398 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἰδίαν idían Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 9:1 24
ἴδιον ídion Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 22:5 18
ἰδίᾳ idía Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 13:57 13
ἰδίου idíou Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 6:44 11
ἰδίοις idíois Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine Mark 4:34 10
ἴδια ídia Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Luke 18:28 9
ἰδίων idíōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Acts 24:23 7
ἰδίῳ idíō Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine Luke 6:41 7
ἰδίας idías Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Acts 25:19 6
ἰδίους idíous Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 25:14 5
ἰδίαις idíais Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine 1 Corinthians 4:12 2
ἴδιοι ídioi Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine John 1:11 1
ἴδιος ídios Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Titus 1:12 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2398, 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.

Derived from this word

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ιδιος appears 26 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 7 books.

26
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
24
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

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2398) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2398) 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.

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