οὐρά
tail
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Dative-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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where G3769 appears in the Dative 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 2 verses
- Revelation 9:10 οὐρὰς οὐραῖς n acc pl fem n dat pl fem They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
- Revelation 9:19 οὐραῖς οὐραὶ n dat pl fem n nom pl fem For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
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.
ουρα (ourá) is a Greek noun most often rendered “tail.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Revelation dominates its distribution — 3 of 3 verses. It first appears in Revelation 9:10. 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 G3769 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.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 3 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 3 distinct verses.
- Johannine 3 verses · 100%
- Revelation 3 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: Tails 4×
- American Standard Version: Tails 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tails 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tails 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3769 across 5 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 G3769 across 5 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 G3769 across 4 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3769 across 5 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 1 sense 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 tail
Word origin
Origin: apparently a root word
Apparently a primary word; a tail : - tail.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3769 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οὐραῖς ouraîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 9:10 | 2 |
| οὐραὶ ouraì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 9:19 | 1 |
| οὐρὰ ourà | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 12:4 | 1 |
| οὐρὰς ouràs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 9:10 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ουρα appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 4 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 28:13 οὐρά
- 1 Samuel 25:34 οὐρά
- Job 40:17 οὐρά
- Isaiah 9:13 οὐρά
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3769) 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:13 οὐρά Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],
- Deuteronomy 28:44 οὐρά He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
- 1 Samuel 25:34 οὐρά For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.
- Job 40:17 οὐρά He moves his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
- Job 40:31 οὐρά
- Isaiah 9:13 οὐρά Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.
- Isaiah 9:14 οὐρά Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
- Isaiah 19:15 οὐρά Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3769) 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.
