ἀγγελία
message
also: announcement, news 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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G31 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
1 John 2 verses
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, αγγελια (angelía) means “message.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 John (100% of all occurrences). First canonically at 1 John 1:5, it enters the text early. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “announcement” and “news”. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G31 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
- 1 John 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.
- Johannine 2 verses · 100%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 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: Message 1×
- American Standard Version: Message 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Message 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Message 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G31 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G31 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G31 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G31 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 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.
- message, announcement, news
- a proclamation, command, order
Word origin
Derived from αγγελος (ángelos) (G32) — angel.
From G32 ; an announcement that is (by implication) precept : - message.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγγελια appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 7 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 4:19 ἀγγελία
- 2 Samuel 4:4 ἀγγελία
- 2 Kings 19:7 ἀγγελία
- Proverbs 12:25 ἀγγελία
- Isaiah 28:9 ἀγγελία
- Ezekiel 7:26 ἀγγελία
- Nahum 3:19 ἀγγελία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G31) 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.
- 1 Samuel 4:19 ἀγγελία His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
- 2 Samuel 4:4 ἀγγελία Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
- 2 Kings 19:7 ἀγγελία Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
- Proverbs 12:25 ἀγγελία Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, But a kind word makes it glad.
- Proverbs 25:25 ἀγγελία Like cold water to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.
- Proverbs 26:16 ἀγγελία The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
- Isaiah 28:9 ἀγγελία Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
- Isaiah 37:7 ἀγγελία Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
- Ezekiel 7:26 ἀγγελία Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
- Ezekiel 21:12 ἀγγελία Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
- Nahum 3:19 ἀγγελία There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G31) 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.
