ἀμνός
lamb
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G286 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Peter
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.
At its core, αμνος (amnós) means “lamb.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in John (50% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in John 1:29. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G286 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
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: Lamb 4×
- American Standard Version: Lamb 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lamb 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lamb 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G286 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G286 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G286 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G286 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- a lamb
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
Apparently a primary word; a lamb : - lamb.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G286 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀμνὸς amnòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 1:29 | 3 |
| ἀμνοῦ amnoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 1:19 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αμνος appears 98 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 90 verses in 12 books.
- 98
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 90
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 30:40 ἀμνός
- Exodus 29:38 ἀμνός
- Leviticus 9:3 ἀμνός
- Numbers 6:12 ἀμνός
- Deuteronomy 14:4 ἀμνός
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 ἀμνός
- Ezra 6:9 ἀμνός
- Job 31:20 ἀμνός
- Isaiah 53:7 ἀμνός
- Ezekiel 27:21 ἀμνός
- Hosea 4:16 ἀμνός
- Zechariah 10:3 ἀμνός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G286) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 90. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 30:40 ἀμνός Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
- Genesis 31:7 ἀμνός Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
- Genesis 33:19 ἀμνός He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
- Exodus 29:38 ἀμνός "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- Exodus 29:39 ἀμνός The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:
- Exodus 29:40 ἀμνός and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.
- Exodus 29:41 ἀμνός The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to its drink-offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 9:3 ἀμνός You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
- Leviticus 12:6 ἀμνός "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
- Leviticus 12:8 ἀμνός If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
- Leviticus 14:10 ἀμνός "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Leviticus 14:12 ἀμνός "The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:13 ἀμνός He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 14:21 ἀμνός "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
- Leviticus 14:24 ἀμνός The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:25 ἀμνός He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 23:18 ἀμνός You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. Yhey shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:19 ἀμνός You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
- Leviticus 23:20 ἀμνός The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
- Numbers 6:12 ἀμνός He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
- Numbers 6:14 ἀμνός and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
- Numbers 7:15 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:21 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:27 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:33 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:39 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:45 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:51 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:57 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:63 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:69 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:75 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:81 ἀμνός one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- Numbers 7:87 ἀμνός all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;
- Numbers 15:5 ἀμνός and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
- Numbers 15:11 ἀμνός Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.
- Numbers 28:3 ἀμνός You shall tell them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
- Numbers 28:4 ἀμνός The one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer at even;
- Numbers 28:7 ἀμνός The drink-offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink-offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
- Numbers 28:8 ἀμνός The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Numbers 28:9 ἀμνός On the Sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, and the drink-offering of it:
- Numbers 28:11 ἀμνός In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Numbers 28:13 ἀμνός and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal-offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Numbers 28:14 ἀμνός Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Numbers 28:19 ἀμνός but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;
- Numbers 28:21 ἀμνός a tenth part shall you offer for every lamb of the seven lambs;
- Numbers 28:27 ἀμνός but you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old;
- Numbers 28:29 ἀμνός a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
- Numbers 29:2 ἀμνός You shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Numbers 29:4 ἀμνός and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G286) 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.
