μαργαρίτης
pearl
‘pearl’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (22%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (22%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3135 appears — 8 distinct verses across 3 books. 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 3 verses
- Matthew 7:6 μαργαρίτας n acc pl masc "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
- Matthew 13:45 μαργαρίτας n acc pl masc "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
- Matthew 13:46 μαργαρίτην n acc sg masc who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
1 Timothy 1 verse
Revelation 4 verses
- Revelation 17:4 μαργαρίταις n dat pl masc The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
- Revelation 18:12 μαργαριτῶν n gen pl masc merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
- Revelation 18:16 μαργαρίτῃ n dat sg masc saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
- Revelation 21:21 μαργαρῖται μαργαρίτου n nom pl masc n gen sg masc The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
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 μαργαριτης centers on the idea of “pearl.” The word gravitates to Revelation (50%), then Matthew and 1 Timothy. It appears 8 verses across 3 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Matthew 7:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G3135 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.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 4 verses 50%
- Matthew 3 verses 38%
- 1 Timothy 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.
- Johannine 4 verses · 50%
- Revelation 4 verses · 50%
- Gospels 3 verses · 38%
- Pauline corpus 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: Pearls 7×, Pearl 2×
- American Standard Version: Pearls 6×, Pearl 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pearls 7×, Pearl 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pearls 7×, Pearl 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3135 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3135 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3135 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3135 across 10 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.
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.
- a pearl
- a proverb, i.e. a word of great value
Word origin
Origin: from margaros (a pearl-oyster)
From μάργαρος margaros (a pearl oyster ); a pearl : - pearl.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G3135 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μαργαρίταις margarítais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Timothy 2:9 | 2 |
| μαργαρίτας margarítas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 7:6 | 2 |
| μαργαρίτην margarítēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:46 | 1 |
| μαργαρίτου margarítou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 21:21 | 1 |
| μαργαρίτῃ margarítē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 18:16 | 1 |
| μαργαριτῶν margaritō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 18:12 | 1 |
| μαργαρῖται margarîtai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 21:21 | 1 |
