ὀξύς
sharp
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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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G3691 appears in the Accusative 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.
Revelation 4 verses
- Revelation 2:12 ὀξεῖαν adj acc sg fem "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
- Revelation 14:14 ὀξύ adj acc sg neut I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 14:17 ὀξύ adj acc sg neut Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 14:18 ὀξὺ ὀξὺ adj acc sg neut adj acc sg neut Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
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.
“sharp” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective οξυς (oxýs). It clusters heavily in Revelation, which alone accounts for 86% of its uses. With 7 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Romans 3:15. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3691 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 6 verses 86%
- Romans 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Johannine 6 verses · 86%
- Revelation 6 verses · 86%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 14%
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: Sharp 7×
- American Standard Version: Sharp 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sharp 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sharp 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3691 across 8 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 G3691 across 8 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 G3691 across 8 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 G3691 across 8 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.
- sharp
- swift, quick
Word origin
Derived from ακμην (akmḗn) (G188) — acme.
Probably akin to the base of G188 (acid); keen ; by analogy rapid : - sharp swift.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3691 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀξεῖα oxeîa | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 1:16 | 2 |
| ὀξύ oxý | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 14:14 | 2 |
| ὀξὺ oxỳ | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 14:18 | 2 |
| ὀξεῖαν oxeîan | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 2:12 | 1 |
| ὀξεῖς oxeîs | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 3:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3691, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οξυς appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 7 books.
- 11
- 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
- Job 16:10 ὀξύς
- Psalms 13:3 ὀξύς
- Proverbs 22:29 ὀξύς
- Isaiah 5:28 ὀξύς
- Ezekiel 5:1 ὀξύς
- Amos 2:15 ὀξύς
- Habakkuk 1:8 ὀξύς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3691) 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.
- Job 16:10 ὀξύς They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
- Job 41:22 ὀξύς In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him.
- Psalms 13:3 ὀξύς Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
- Psalms 56:5 ὀξύς All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Proverbs 22:29 ὀξύς Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings; He won't serve obscure men.
- Proverbs 27:4 ὀξύς Wrath is cruel, And anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
- Isaiah 5:28 ὀξύς Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.
- Isaiah 49:2 ὀξύς and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:
- Ezekiel 5:1 ὀξύς You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
- Amos 2:15 ὀξύς Neither shall he stand who handles the bow; And he who is swift of foot won't escape; Neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
- Habakkuk 1:8 ὀξύς Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3691) 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.
