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ἀμπελών

vineyard

G290 Strong's Greek
ampelṓn Transliteration
/am-pel-ohn'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 23 appearances

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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.

“vineyard” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αμπελων (ampelṓn). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 20:1. With 21 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 48% of its uses. From the same root come αμπελος and αμπελουργος. See the sense tree, 21-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
vineyard
Modern gloss
vineyard
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G290 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 →

21
distinct verses
The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
4 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 20:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 20:1.
1 Corinthians 9:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Corinthians 9:7.
#563
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 563 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 20 · 95%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 5%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 21 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 20 verses · 95%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 29%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 5%

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: Vineyard 23×
  • American Standard Version: Vineyard 23×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Vineyard 23×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vineyard 23×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G290 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Vineyard” 23×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G290 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Vineyard” 23×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G290 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Vineyard” 23×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G290 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Vineyard” 23×

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.

  1. a vineyard

Word origin

Derived from αμπελος (ámpelos) (G288) — vine.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

From G288 ; a vineyard : - vineyard.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G290 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀμπελῶνα ampelō̂na Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 20:1 11
ἀμπελῶνος ampelō̂nos Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 20:8 10
ἀμπελῶνι ampelō̂ni Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:28 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G290, 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

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αμπελων appears 84 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 75 verses in 22 books.

84
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
75
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
22 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G290) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 75. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G290) 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.

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