ἄμπελος
vine
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G288 appears in the Book of Luke — 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.
Luke
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 αμπελος centers on the idea of “vine.” Debuting at Matthew 26:29, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 9 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. John dominates its distribution — 3 of 9 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside αμφοτερος, αμφιβληστρον and αμφιεννυμι. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G288 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 3 verses 33%
- Revelation 2 verses 22%
- Matthew 1 verse 11%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 67%
- Johannine 5 verses · 56%
- Revelation 2 verses · 22%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 11%
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: Vine 9×
- American Standard Version: Vine 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Vine 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vine 6×, Grapevine 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G288 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G288 across 7 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G288 across 8 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G288 across 9 tagged occurrences — 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 vine
Word origin
Derived from αμφοτερος (amphóteros) (G297) — both.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G288 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀμπέλου ampélou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 26:29 | 4 |
| ἄμπελος ámpelos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 15:1 | 3 |
| ἀμπέλῳ ampélō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | John 15:4 | 1 |
| ἄμπελον ámpelon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 14:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G288, 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
Shares the same root
- αμφιβληστρον amphíblēstron G293 impediment
- αμφιεννυμι amphiénnymi G294 to put on
- αμφοδον ámphodon G296 street
Derived from this word
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 → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αμπελος appears 61 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 57 verses in 20 books.
- 61
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 57
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 40:9 ἄμπελος
- Leviticus 25:3 ἄμπελος
- Numbers 6:4 ἄμπελος
- Deuteronomy 8:8 ἄμπελος
- Judges 9:12 ἄμπελος
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἄμπελος
- 2 Kings 4:39 ἄμπελος
- Psalms 77:47 ἄμπελος
- Song of Solomon 2:13 ἄμπελος
- Isaiah 5:2 ἄμπελος
- Jeremiah 2:21 ἄμπελος
- Lamentations 2:6 ἄμπελος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G288) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 57. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 40:9 ἄμπελος The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
- Genesis 40:10 ἄμπελος and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes.
- Genesis 49:11 ἄμπελος Binding his foal to the vine, His donkey's colt to the choice vine; He has washed his garments in wine, His robes in the blood of grapes:
- Leviticus 25:3 ἄμπελος Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
- Leviticus 25:4 ἄμπελος but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- Numbers 6:4 ἄμπελος All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
- Numbers 20:5 ἄμπελος Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
- Numbers 22:24 ἄμπελος Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
- Deuteronomy 8:8 ἄμπελος a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
- Deuteronomy 32:32 ἄμπελος For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, Of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
- Judges 9:12 ἄμπελος The trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us.
- Judges 9:13 ἄμπελος The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
- Judges 13:14 ἄμπελος She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἄμπελος So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 2 Kings 4:39 ἄμπελος One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
- 2 Kings 18:31 ἄμπελος Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
- Psalms 77:47 ἄμπελος
- Psalms 79:9 ἄμπελος Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
- Psalms 79:15 ἄμπελος
- Psalms 104:33 ἄμπελος I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
- Psalms 127:3 ἄμπελος Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Song of Solomon 2:13 ἄμπελος The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, And come away. Lover
- Song of Solomon 2:15 ἄμπελος Catch for us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom. Beloved
- Song of Solomon 6:11 ἄμπελος I went down into the nut tree grove, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower.
- Song of Solomon 7:9 ἄμπελος Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
- Song of Solomon 7:13 ἄμπελος The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
- Isaiah 5:2 ἄμπελος He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes.
- Isaiah 7:23 ἄμπελος It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 16:8 ἄμπελος For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
- Isaiah 16:9 ἄμπελος Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
- Isaiah 24:7 ἄμπελος The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
- Isaiah 32:12 ἄμπελος They shall strike on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
- Isaiah 34:4 ἄμπελος All the host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
- Isaiah 36:16 ἄμπελος Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;
- Jeremiah 2:21 ἄμπελος Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Jeremiah 6:9 ἄμπελος Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.
- Jeremiah 8:13 ἄμπελος I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.
- Jeremiah 31:32 ἄμπελος not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
- Lamentations 2:6 ἄμπελος He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
- Ezekiel 15:2 ἄμπελος Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
- Ezekiel 15:6 ἄμπελος Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 17:6 ἄμπελος It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
- Ezekiel 17:7 ἄμπελος There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
- Ezekiel 17:8 ἄμπελος It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
- Ezekiel 19:10 ἄμπελος Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Hosea 2:14 ἄμπελος "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And bring her into the wilderness, And speak tenderly to her.
- Hosea 10:1 ἄμπελος Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
- Hosea 14:8 ἄμπελος Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; From me your fruit is found."
- Joel 1:7 ἄμπελος He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
- Joel 1:12 ἄμπελος The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, Even all of the trees of the field are withered; For joy has withered away from the sons of men.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G288) 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.
