ἴδιος
one's own
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- 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.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2398 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 7 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.
2 Peter
- 2 Peter 1:3 ἰδίᾳ adj dat sg fem seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
- 2 Peter 1:20 ἰδίας adj gen sg fem knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
- 2 Peter 2:16 ἰδίας adj gen sg fem but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
- 2 Peter 2:22 ἴδιον adj acc sg neut But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire."
- 2 Peter 3:3 ἰδίας adj acc pl fem knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
- 2 Peter 3:16 ἰδίαν adj acc sg fem as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
- 2 Peter 3:17 ἰδίου adj gen sg masc You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
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
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.
- #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
- Acts 16 verses 15%
- John 14 verses 13%
- 1 Corinthians 13 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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- pertaining to one's self, one's own, belonging to one's self
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 14:14 ἴδιος
- Deuteronomy 15:2 ἴδιος
- Esther 5:8 ἴδιος
- Job 2:11 ἴδιος
- Proverbs 5:18 ἴδιος
- Ezekiel 21:35 ἴδιος
- Daniel 1:10 ἴδιος
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.
- Genesis 14:14 ἴδιος When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
- Genesis 15:13 ἴδιος He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- Genesis 47:18 ἴδιος When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Deuteronomy 15:2 ἴδιος This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
- Esther 5:8 ἴδιος if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.
- Esther 6:12 ἴδιος Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
- Job 2:11 ἴδιος Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Job 7:10 ἴδιος He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
- Job 7:13 ἴδιος When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;'
- Job 24:12 ἴδιος From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.
- Proverbs 5:18 ἴδιος Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
- Proverbs 5:19 ἴδιος A loving doe and a graceful deer-- Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
- Proverbs 5:20 ἴδιος For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
- Proverbs 6:2 ἴδιος You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
- Proverbs 9:12 ἴδιος If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
- Proverbs 11:24 ἴδιος There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
- Proverbs 13:8 ἴδιος The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor hear no threats.
- Proverbs 16:19 ἴδιος It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the plunder with the proud.
- Proverbs 20:16 ἴδιος Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; And hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
- Proverbs 22:7 ἴδιος The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
- Proverbs 27:8 ἴδιος As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.
- Proverbs 27:15 ἴδιος A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike:
- Ezekiel 21:35 ἴδιος
- Daniel 1:10 ἴδιος The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
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.
