κυβερνήτης
helmsman
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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2942 appears in the Book of Revelation — 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.
Revelation
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.
“helmsman” is the headline sense of the Greek noun κυβερνητης (kybernḗtēs). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Acts 27:11, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2942 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 50%
- Revelation 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Johannine 1 verse · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 50%
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: Master 1×, Shipmaster 1×
- American Standard Version: Master 1×, Shipmaster 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pilot 1×, Shipmaster 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pilot 1×, Shipmaster 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2942 across 2 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.
- steersman, helmsman, sailing master
Word origin
Derived from κυβερνησις (kybérnēsis) (G2941) — government.
From the same as G2941 ; helmsman that is (by implication) captain : - (ship) master.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2942 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κυβερνήτης kybernḗtēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 18:17 | 1 |
| κυβερνήτῃ kybernḗtē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 27:11 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κυβερνητης appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 2 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- 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
- Proverbs 23:34 κυβερνήτης
- Ezekiel 27:8 κυβερνήτης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2942) 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.
- Proverbs 23:34 κυβερνήτης Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
- Ezekiel 27:8 κυβερνήτης The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
- Ezekiel 27:27 κυβερνήτης Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
- Ezekiel 27:28 κυβερνήτης At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2942) 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.
