ματαιότης
depravity
‘depravity’ is one of 3 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
- 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.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3153 appears in the Book of Ephesians — 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.
Ephesians
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.
ματαιοτης — transliterated mataiótēs — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “depravity.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. It first appears in Romans 8:20. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3153 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 33%
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: Vanity 2×
- American Standard Version: Vanity 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Futility 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Futility 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3153 across 3 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3153 across 3 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3153 across 3 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3153 across 3 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 3 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.
- what is devoid of truth and appropriateness
- perverseness, depravity
- frailty, want of vigour
Word origin
Derived from ματαιος (mátaios) (G3152) — vain.
From G3152 ; inutility ; figuratively transientness ; morally depravity : - vanity.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3153 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ματαιότητι mataiótēti | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 8:20 | 2 |
| ματαιότητος mataiótētos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 2 Peter 2:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3153, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ματαιοτης appears 54 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 46 verses in 3 books.
- 54
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 46
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 4:3 ματαιότης
- Proverbs 22:8 ματαιότης
- Ecclesiastes 1:2 ματαιότης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3153) 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.
- Psalms 4:3 ματαιότης But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
- Psalms 25:4 ματαιότης Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
- Psalms 30:7 ματαιότης You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong. But when you hid your face, I was troubled.
- Psalms 37:13 ματαιότης The Lord will laugh at him, For he sees that his day is coming.
- Psalms 38:6 ματαιότης I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
- Psalms 39:5 ματαιότης Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Psalms 51:9 ματαιότης Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.
- Psalms 61:10 ματαιότης
- Psalms 77:33 ματαιότης
- Psalms 118:37 ματαιότης
- Psalms 138:20 ματαιότης
- Psalms 143:4 ματαιότης Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
- Psalms 143:8 ματαιότης Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, For I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to you.
- Psalms 143:11 ματαιότης Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
- Proverbs 22:8 ματαιότης He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2 ματαιότης "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 ματαιότης I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:1 ματαιότης I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and, behold, this also was vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 ματαιότης Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15 ματαιότης Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 ματαιότης So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19 ματαιότης Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21 ματαιότης For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 2:23 ματαιότης For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 ματαιότης For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 ματαιότης For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4 ματαιότης Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:7 ματαιότης Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 ματαιότης There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
- Ecclesiastes 4:16 ματαιότης There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 5:6 ματαιότης Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
- Ecclesiastes 5:9 ματαιότης Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 ματαιότης a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
- Ecclesiastes 6:4 ματαιότης for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9 ματαιότης Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11 ματαιότης For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 ματαιότης For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 7:6 ματαιότης For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15 ματαιότης All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 ματαιότης So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 8:14 ματαιότης There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 ματαιότης All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 ματαιότης Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8 ματαιότης Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10 ματαιότης Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh; For youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 12:8 ματαιότης Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3153) 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.
