Ἰώβ
Job
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Job’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G2492 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
James 1 verse
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.
“Job” is the headline sense of the Greek name Ιωβ (Iṓb). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in James. A true hapax — its single appearance is James 5:11. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2492 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- James 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 100%
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: Job 1×
- American Standard Version: Job 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Job’s 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Job 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2492 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2492 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2492 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2492 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- Job = "the cry of woe" or "I will exclaim"
- a man known for his piety and…
Word origin
Derived from איוב (ʼÎyôwb) (H347) — Job.
Of hebrew origin [ H347 ]; Job (that is Ijob ) a patriarch : - Job.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Job). 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
Persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid all his sufferings he maintained his integrity. Once more God visited him with the rich tokens of his goodness and even greater prosperity than he had enjoyed before. He survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity (Ezek. 14:14, 20) and of submissive patience under the sorest calamities (James 5:11). His history, so far as it is known, is recorded in his book.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
the patriarch, from whom one of the books of the Old Testament is named. His residence in the land of Uz marks him as belonging to a branch of the Aramean race, which had settled in the lower part of Mesopatamia (Probably to the south or southeast of Palestine, in Idumean Arabia), adjacent to the Sabeans and Chaldeans. The opinions of Job and his friends are thus peculiarly interesting as exhibiting an aspect of the patriarchal religion outside of the family of Abraham, and as yet uninfluenced by the legislation of Moses. The form of worship belongs essentially to the early patriarchal type; with little of ceremonial ritual, without a separate priesthood, it is thoroughly domestic in form and spirit. Job is represented as a chieftain of immense wealth and high rank, blameless in all the relations of life. What we know of his history is given in the book that bears his name.
(persecuted), the third son of Issachar, (Genesis 46:13) called in another genealogy Jashub. (1 Chronicles 7:1)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
he that weeps or cries
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Ιωβ appears 63 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 54 verses in 2 books.
- 63
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 54
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 1:1 ιωβ
- Ezekiel 14:14 ιωβ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2492) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 54. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 1:1 ιωβ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Job 1:5 ιωβ It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.
- Job 1:8 ιωβ Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
- Job 1:9 ιωβ Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?
- Job 1:13 ιωβ It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
- Job 1:14 ιωβ that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
- Job 1:16 ιωβ While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Job 1:17 ιωβ While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Job 1:18 ιωβ While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
- Job 1:20 ιωβ Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
- Job 1:22 ιωβ In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
- Job 2:3 ιωβ Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
- Job 2:7 ιωβ So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
- Job 2:10 ιωβ But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Job 3:1 ιωβ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 6:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 9:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 12:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 16:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 19:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 21:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 23:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 26:1 ιωβ Then Job answered,
- Job 27:1 ιωβ Job again took up his parable, and said,
- Job 29:1 ιωβ Job again took up his parable, and said,
- Job 31:40 ιωβ Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
- Job 32:1 ιωβ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 32:2 ιωβ Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
- Job 32:3 ιωβ Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Job 32:4 ιωβ Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
- Job 32:12 ιωβ Yes, I gave you my full attention, But there was no one who convinced Job, Or who answered his words, among you.
- Job 33:1 ιωβ "However, Job, Please hear my speech, And listen to all my words.
- Job 33:31 ιωβ Mark well, Job, and listen to me: Hold your peace, and I will speak.
- Job 34:5 ιωβ For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
- Job 34:7 ιωβ What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
- Job 34:35 ιωβ 'Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'
- Job 34:36 ιωβ I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
- Job 35:16 ιωβ Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."
- Job 37:14 ιωβ "Listen to this, Job: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
- Job 38:1 ιωβ Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
- Job 40:1 ιωβ Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
- Job 40:3 ιωβ Then Job answered Yahweh,
- Job 40:6 ιωβ Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
- Job 42:1 ιωβ Then Job answered Yahweh,
- Job 42:7 ιωβ It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
- Job 42:8 ιωβ Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
- Job 42:9 ιωβ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
- Job 42:10 ιωβ Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- Job 42:12 ιωβ So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- Job 42:15 ιωβ In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2492) 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.
