λιθάζω
to stone
‘to stone’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3034 appears in the Book of 2 Corinthians — 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.
2 Corinthians
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, λιθαζω (litházō) means “to stone.” Its uses cluster heavily in John (50% of all occurrences). With 8 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at John 10:31, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3034 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 4 verses 50%
- Acts 2 verses 25%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 50%
- Johannine 4 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 13%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 13%
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: Stone 2×
- American Standard Version: Stone 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stone 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stone 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3034 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3034 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3034 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3034 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- to overwhelm or pelt with stones
- to pelt one with stones, in order either to wound or kill him
Word origin
Derived from λιθος (líthos) (G3037) — stone.
From G3037 ; to lapidate : - stone.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G3034 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λιθάζετε litházete | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | John 10:32 | 1 |
| λιθάζομέν litházomén | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | John 10:33 | 1 |
| λιθάσαι lithásai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | John 11:8 | 1 |
| λιθάσαντες lithásantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 14:19 | 1 |
| λιθάσωσιν lithásōsin | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | John 10:31 | 1 |
| λιθασθῶσιν lithasthō̂sin | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 5:26 | 1 |
| ἐλιθάσθην elithásthēn | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 11:25 | 1 |
| ἐλιθάσθησαν elithásthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 11:37 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3034, 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
- λιθινος líthinos G3035 stone
- λιθοβολεω lithoboléō G3036 to stone
- λιθοστρωτος lithóstrōtos G3038 pavement
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λιθαζω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 1 book.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 16:6 λιθάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3034) 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.
- 2 Samuel 16:6 λιθάζω He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
- 2 Samuel 16:13 λιθάζω So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3034) 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.
