ὀψάριον
fish
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.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 2 times (40%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 2 times (40%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3795 appears — 5 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 5 verses
- John 6:9 ὀψάρια n acc pl neut "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"
- John 6:11 ὀψαρίων n gen pl neut Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
- John 21:9 ὀψάριον n acc sg neut So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
- John 21:10 ὀψαρίων n gen pl neut Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."
- John 21:13 ὀψάριον n acc sg neut Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
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.
οψαριον — transliterated opsárion — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “fish.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in John. It first appears in John 6:9. Related forms include οπτος and οψωνιον. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3795 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 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 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 100%
- Johannine 5 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: Fish 3×
- American Standard Version: Fish 3×, Fishes 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fish 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fish 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3795 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3795 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3795 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3795 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.
- fish
Word origin
Derived from οπτος (optós) (G3702) — cooked.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G3702 ; a relish to other food (as if cooked sauce ) that is (specifically) fish (presumably salted and dried as a condiment): - fish.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3795 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀψάριον opsárion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | John 21:9 | 2 |
| ὀψαρίων opsaríōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | John 6:11 | 2 |
| ὀψάρια opsária | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | John 6:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3795, 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.
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