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Ἰησοῦς

Jesus

Thayer's lists 6 entries for ‘Jesus’ fuller range ↓

G2424 Strong's Greek
Iēsoûs Transliteration
/ee-ay-sooce'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 905 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek name Ιησους centers on the idea of “Jesus.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:1. It appears 865 verses across 26 books of the Greek New Testament, among its most common vocabulary. The word gravitates to John (26%), then Matthew and Luke. Dig into 865-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Jesus
Modern gloss
Jesus
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G2424 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 →

865
distinct verses
The word appears in 865 distinct verses.
26 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:1.
Revelation 22:21
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:21.
#21
by frequency
Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 21 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 865 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 536 · 62%
  • Acts 68 · 8%
  • Pauline Epistles 198 · 23%
  • General Epistles 51 · 6%
  • Revelation 12 · 1%

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 865 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 536 verses · 62%
  • Johannine 254 verses · 29%
  • Pauline corpus 198 verses · 23%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 153 verses · 18%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 37 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 14 verses · 2%
  • Revelation 12 verses · 1%

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: Jesus 960×, Jesus' 10×, Thou jesus 3×
  • American Standard Version: Jesus 867×, He 40×, Him 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Jesus 866×, Jesus’ 9×, Joshua 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jesus 910×, Joshua 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2424 across 975 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jesus” 960×
  • “Jesus'” 10×
  • “Thou jesus” 3×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2424 across 937 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jesus” 867×
  • “He” 40×
  • “Him” 3×
  • “Lord” 3×
  • “Joshua” 2×

Plus 22 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 3 further occurrences.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2424 across 886 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jesus” 866×
  • “Jesus’” 9×
  • “Joshua” 3×
  • “About jesus” 2×

Plus 6 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 30 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2424 across 918 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jesus” 910×
  • “Joshua” 3×

Plus 5 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 6 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.

  1. Jesus = "Jehovah is salvation"
  2. Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, God incarnate
  3. Jesus Barabbas was the captive robber whom the Jews begged Pilate to release instead of Christ
  4. Joshua was the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses' successor ( Ac. 7:45 , Heb. 4:8 )
  5. Jesus, son of Eliezer, one of the ancestors of Christ ( Luk. 3:29 )
  6. Jesus, surnamed Justus, a Jewish Christian, an associate with Paul in the preaching of the gospel ( Col. 4:11 )

Word origin

Derived from יהושוע (Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ) (H3091) — Joshua.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 07:44,4

Of hebrew origin [ H3091 ]; Jesus (that is Jehoshua ) the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites : - Jesus.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G2424 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
Ἰησοῦς Iēsoûs Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:16 453
Ἰησοῦ Iēsoû Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:1 326
Ἰησοῦν Iēsoûn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:21 126

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2424, 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

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jesus). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

(1.) Joshua, the son of Nun (Acts 7:45; Heb. 4:8; R.V., "Joshua").

(2.) A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col. 4:11).

Je'sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish him from others so called, he is spoken of as "Jesus of Nazareth" (John 18:7), and "Jesus the son of Joseph" (John 6:42).

This is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua, which was originally Hoshea (Num. 13:8, 16), but changed by Moses into Jehoshua (Num. 13:16; 1 Chr. 7:27), or Joshua. After the Exile it assumed the form Jeshua, whence the Greek form Jesus. It was given to our Lord to denote the object of his mission, to save (Matt. 1:21).

The life of Jesus on earth may be divided into two great periods, (1) that of his private life, till he was about thirty years of age; and (2) that of his public life, which lasted about three years.

In the "fulness of time" he was born at Bethlehem, in the reign of the emperor Augustus, of Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter (Matt. 1:1; Luke 3:23; comp. John 7:42). His birth was announced to the shepherds (Luke 2:8-20). Wise men from the east came to Bethlehem to see him who was born "King of the Jews," bringing gifts with them (Matt. 2:1-12). Herod's cruel jealousy led to Joseph's flight into Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus, where they tarried till the death of this king (Matt. 2:13-23), when they returned and settled in Nazareth, in Lower Galilee (2:23; comp. Luke 4:16; John 1:46, etc.). At the age of twelve years he went up to Jerusalem to the Passover with his parents. There, in the temple, "in the midst of the doctors," all that heard him were "astonished at his understanding and answers" (Luke 2:41, etc.).

Eighteen years pass, of which we have no record beyond this, that he returned to Nazareth and "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man" (Luke 2:52).

He entered on his public ministry when he was about thirty years of age. It is generally reckoned to have extended to about three years. "Each of these years had peculiar features of its own. (1.) The first year may be called the year of obscurity, both because the records of it which we possess are very scanty, and because he seems during it to have been only slowly emerging into public notice. It was spent for the most part in Judea. (2.) The second year was the year of public favour, during which the country had become thoroughly aware of him; his activity was incessant, and his frame rang through the length and breadth of the land. It was almost wholly passed in Galilee. (3.) The third was the year of opposition, when the public favour ebbed away. His enemies multiplied and assailed him with more and more pertinacity, and at last he fell a victim to their hatred. The first six months of this final year were passed in Galilee, and the last six in other parts of the land.", Stalker's Life of Jesus Christ, p. 45.

The only reliable sources of information regarding the life of Christ on earth are the Gospels, which present in historical detail the words and the work of Christ in so many different aspects. (See CHIRST.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

called Jestus, a Christian who was with St. Paul at Rome. (Colossians 4:11) (A.D. 57.)

(saviour).

+ The Greek form of the name Joshua or Jeshua, a contraction of Jehoshua, that is, "help of Jehovah" or "saviour." (Numbers 13:16) + Joshua the son of Nun. (Numbers 27:18; Hebrews 4:8) [Jehoshua]

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

savior; deliverer

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word Ιησους appears 246 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 218 verses in 11 books.

246
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
218
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
11 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2424) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 218. 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 (G2424) 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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