ἀγγεῖον
vessel
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G30 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 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.
“vessel” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αγγειον (angeîon). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 13:48. From the same root come αγκαλη, αγανακτεω and αγκιστρον. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G30 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.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 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
- Matthew 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 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: Vessels 2×
- American Standard Version: Vessels 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Containers 1×, Flasks 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Containers 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G30 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G30 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G30 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G30 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 vessel, receptacle, a pail, a reservoir
Word origin
Derived from αγκαλη (ankálē) (G43) — arm.
From ἄγκάλη aggos (a pail perhaps as bent ; compare the base of G43 ); a receptacle : - vessel.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G30 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀγγείοις angeíois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 25:4 | 1 |
| ἄγγη ángē | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 13:48 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G30, 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
- αγανακτεω aganaktéō G23 to be indignant
- αγκιστρον ánkistron G44 fish hook
- αγκυρα ánkyra G45 anchor
- εγγυς engýs G1451 near
- ογκος ónkos G3591 bulk
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγγειον appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 8 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 42:25 ἀγγεῖον
- Leviticus 11:34 ἀγγεῖον
- Numbers 4:9 ἀγγεῖον
- 1 Samuel 9:7 ἀγγεῖον
- Proverbs 5:15 ἀγγεῖον
- Isaiah 30:14 ἀγγεῖον
- Jeremiah 14:3 ἀγγεῖον
- Lamentations 4:2 ἀγγεῖον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G30) 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 42:25 ἀγγεῖον Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Genesis 43:11 ἀγγεῖον Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
- Leviticus 11:34 ἀγγεῖον All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 14:5 ἀγγεῖον The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Numbers 4:9 ἀγγεῖον They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
- Numbers 5:17 ἀγγεῖον and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
- 1 Samuel 9:7 ἀγγεῖον Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
- 1 Samuel 10:3 ἀγγεῖον Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
- 1 Samuel 25:18 ἀγγεῖον Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
- Proverbs 5:15 ἀγγεῖον Drink water out of your own cistern, Running water out of your own well.
- Isaiah 30:14 ἀγγεῖον He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
- Jeremiah 14:3 ἀγγεῖον Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
- Jeremiah 18:4 ἀγγεῖον When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
- Jeremiah 31:11 ἀγγεῖον For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
- Jeremiah 31:38 ἀγγεῖον Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
- Jeremiah 39:14 ἀγγεῖον they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people.
- Jeremiah 47:10 ἀγγεῖον
- Lamentations 4:2 ἀγγεῖον The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G30) 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.
