Ἰησοῦς
Jesus
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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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
14 verses where G2424 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 1:31 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'
- Luke 2:27 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
- Luke 5:12 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
- Luke 7:4 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him,
- Luke 8:28 Ἰησοῦν Ἰησοῦ n acc sg masc n voc sg masc When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"
- Luke 8:35 Ἰησοῦν Ἰησοῦ n acc sg masc n gen sg masc People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
- Luke 8:40 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
- Luke 9:33 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
- Luke 10:29 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
- Luke 19:3 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
- Luke 19:35 Ἰησοῦν Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc n acc sg masc They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Jesus on them.
- Luke 23:8 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
- Luke 23:20 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
- Luke 23:25 Ἰησοῦν n acc sg masc He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
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 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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- Jesus = "Jehovah is salvation"
- Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, God incarnate
- Jesus Barabbas was the captive robber whom the Jews begged Pilate to release instead of Christ
- Joshua was the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses' successor ( Ac. 7:45 , Heb. 4:8 )
- Jesus, son of Eliezer, one of the ancestors of Christ ( Luk. 3:29 )
- 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.
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
- Exodus 17:9 ἰησοῦς
- Numbers 11:28 ἰησοῦς
- Deuteronomy 1:38 ἰησοῦς
- Joshua 1:1 ἰησοῦς
- Judges 1:1 ἰησοῦς
- 2 Kings 23:8 ιησους
- 1 Chronicles 24:11 ἰησοῦς
- 2 Chronicles 31:15 ἰησοῦς
- Ezra 2:2 ἰησοῦς
- Haggai 1:1 ἰησοῦς
- Zechariah 3:1 ἰησοῦς
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.
- Exodus 17:9 ἰησοῦς Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."
- Exodus 17:10 ἰησοῦς So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
- Exodus 17:13 ἰησοῦς Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
- Exodus 17:14 ἰησοῦς Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
- Exodus 24:13 ἰησοῦς Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.
- Exodus 24:15 ἰησοῦς Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
- Exodus 32:17 ἰησοῦς When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
- Exodus 33:11 ἰησοῦς Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
- Numbers 11:28 ἰησοῦς Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
- Numbers 13:16 ἰησοῦς These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Numbers 14:6 ἰησοῦς Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
- Numbers 14:30 ἰησοῦς surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 14:38 ἰησοῦς But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
- Numbers 26:65 ἰησοῦς For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 27:18 ἰησοῦς Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
- Numbers 27:22 ἰησοῦς Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
- Numbers 32:12 ἰησοῦς save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
- Numbers 32:28 ἰησοῦς So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 34:17 ἰησοῦς These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Deuteronomy 1:38 ἰησοῦς Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 ἰησοῦς I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
- Deuteronomy 3:28 ἰησοῦς But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
- Deuteronomy 31:3 ἰησοῦς Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 31:7 ἰησοῦς Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
- Deuteronomy 31:14 ἰησοῦς Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
- Deuteronomy 31:23 ἰησοῦς He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.
- Deuteronomy 32:44 ἰησοῦς Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Deuteronomy 34:9 ἰησοῦς Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Joshua 1:1 ἰησοῦς Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
- Joshua 1:10 ἰησοῦς Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
- Joshua 1:12 ἰησοῦς To the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying,
- Joshua 1:16 ἰησοῦς They answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
- Joshua 2:1 ἰησοῦς Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
- Joshua 2:23 ἰησοῦς Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
- Joshua 2:24 ἰησοῦς They said to Joshua, Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.
- Joshua 3:1 ἰησοῦς Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.
- Joshua 3:5 ἰησοῦς Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.
- Joshua 3:6 ἰησοῦς Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
- Joshua 3:7 ἰησοῦς Yahweh said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
- Joshua 3:9 ἰησοῦς Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.
- Joshua 4:1 ἰησοῦς It happened, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
- Joshua 4:4 ἰησοῦς Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
- Joshua 4:8 ἰησοῦς The children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
- Joshua 4:9 ἰησοῦς Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
- Joshua 4:10 ἰησοῦς For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.
- Joshua 4:14 ἰησοῦς On that day Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
- Joshua 4:15 ἰησοῦς Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
- Joshua 4:17 ἰησοῦς Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:20 ἰησοῦς Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
- Joshua 5:2 ἰησοῦς At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, Make you flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
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.
