ὀθόνιον
linen cloth
‘linen cloth’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 2 times (50%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3608 appears — 4 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.
John 4 verses
- John 19:40 ὀθονίοις n dat pl neut So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
- John 20:5 ὀθόνια n acc pl neut Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in.
- John 20:6 ὀθόνια n acc pl neut Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
- John 20:7 ὀθονίων n gen pl neut and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
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 οθονιον centers on the idea of “linen cloth.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. John dominates its distribution — 4 of 4 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Its English rendering has broadened — “linen clothes” classically, “linen cloths” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. 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 G3608 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 100%
- Johannine 4 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: Linen clothes 5×
- American Standard Version: Linen cloths 3×, He seeth the linen cloths 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Linen cloths 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Linen cloths 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3608 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3608 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3608 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3608 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 piece of linen, small linen cloth
- strips of linen cloth for swathing the dead
Word origin
Derived from οθονη (othónē) (G3607) — linen.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G3607 ; a linen bandage : - linen clothes.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3608 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀθόνια othónia | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | John 20:5 | 2 |
| ὀθονίοις othoníois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | John 19:40 | 1 |
| ὀθονίων othoníōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | John 20:7 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οθονιον appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 2 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 14:13 ὀθόνιον
- Hosea 2:7 ὀθόνιον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3608) 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.
- Judges 14:13 ὀθόνιον but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.
- Hosea 2:7 ὀθόνιον She will follow after her lovers, But she won't overtake them; And she will seek them, But won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; For then was it better with me than now.'
- Hosea 2:11 ὀθόνιον I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3608) 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.
