κόραξ
raven
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2876 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.
Luke 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.
The Greek noun κοραξ centers on the idea of “raven.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to Luke (100%). It occurs only once, in Luke 12:24. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2876 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
- Luke 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.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Ravens 1×
- American Standard Version: Ravens 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ravens 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ravens 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2876 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2876 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2876 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2876 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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 raven
Word origin
Derived from κορεννυμι (korénnymi) (G2880) — to satisfy.
Perhaps from G2880 ; a crow (from its voracity ): - raven.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κοραξ appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 10 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:7 κόραξ
- Leviticus 11:15 κόραξ
- Deuteronomy 14:14 κόραξ
- 1 Kings 17:4 κόραξ
- Job 38:41 κόραξ
- Psalms 146:9 κόραξ
- Proverbs 30:17 κόραξ
- Song of Solomon 5:11 κόραξ
- Isaiah 34:11 κόραξ
- Zephaniah 2:14 κόραξ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2876) 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 8:7 κόραξ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Leviticus 11:15 κόραξ any kind of raven,
- Deuteronomy 14:14 κόραξ and every raven after its kind,
- 1 Kings 17:4 κόραξ It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
- 1 Kings 17:6 κόραξ The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
- Job 38:41 κόραξ Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food?
- Psalms 146:9 κόραξ Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
- Proverbs 30:17 κόραξ The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.
- Song of Solomon 5:11 κόραξ His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
- Isaiah 34:11 κόραξ But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
- Zephaniah 2:14 κόραξ Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2876) 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.
