πάλιν
again
‘again’ is one of 3 main senses 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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G3825 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
2 Peter
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, παλιν (pálin) means “again.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 4:7. It appears 134 verses across 15 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. The word gravitates to John (32%), then Mark and Matthew. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3825 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 →
- 134
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 134 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #121
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 121 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 134 occurrences in the concordance →
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 134 distinct verses.
- Gospels 88 verses · 66%
- Johannine 46 verses · 34%
- Pauline corpus 27 verses · 20%
- Hebrews 9 verses · 7%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 2%
- Revelation 2 verses · 1%
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: Again 139×
- American Standard Version: Again 118×, He again 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Again 75×, Once again 10×, Back 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Again 138×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3825 across 141 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3825 across 134 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear 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 2 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3825 across 106 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear 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 26 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3825 across 141 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- anew, again
- again, i.e. further, moreover
- in turn, on the other hand
Word origin
Derived from παλη (pálē) (G3823) — wrestling.
Probably from the same as G3823 (through the idea of oscillatory repetition); (adverbially) anew that is (of place) back (of time) once more or (conjugationally) furthermore or on the other hand : - again.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3825 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πάλιν pálin | Adverb | Matthew 4:7 | 133 |
| Πάλιν Pálin | Adverb | Matthew 5:33 | 6 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3825, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παλιν appears 45 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 43 verses in 14 books.
- 45
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 43
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:10 πάλιν
- Exodus 3:15 πάλιν
- Leviticus 14:43 πάλιν
- Numbers 35:32 πάλιν
- Deuteronomy 30:3 πάλιν
- Joshua 6:14 πάλιν
- Judges 2:19 πάλιν
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 πάλιν
- Ezra 19:28 πάλιν
- Job 5:18 πάλιν
- Psalms 70:20 πάλιν
- Isaiah 6:13 πάλιν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3825) 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.
- Genesis 8:10 πάλιν He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
- Genesis 8:12 πάλιν He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
- Genesis 26:18 πάλιν Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 29:33 πάλιν She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
- Genesis 30:31 πάλιν He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
- Genesis 41:22 πάλιν I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
- Genesis 42:24 πάλιν He turned himself about from them, and wept, and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
- Genesis 43:2 πάλιν It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
- Genesis 44:25 πάλιν Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
- Exodus 3:15 πάλιν God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Exodus 4:6 πάλιν Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
- Exodus 4:7 πάλιν He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
- Leviticus 14:43 πάλιν "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
- Numbers 35:32 πάλιν You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- Deuteronomy 30:3 πάλιν that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
- Joshua 6:14 πάλιν The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
- Judges 2:19 πάλιν But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
- Judges 20:39 πάλιν The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 πάλιν Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- Ezra 19:28 πάλιν
- Job 5:18 πάλιν For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.
- Job 6:29 πάλιν Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
- Job 7:4 πάλιν When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
- Job 10:9 πάλιν Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- Job 10:16 πάλιν If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
- Job 14:14 πάλιν If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Until my release should come.
- Job 32:18 πάλιν For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
- Job 33:19 πάλιν He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;
- Job 42:17 πάλιν So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Psalms 70:20 πάλιν
- Psalms 70:21 πάλιν
- Isaiah 6:13 πάλιν If there are yet a tenth in it, It also shall in turn be eaten up: As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; So the holy seed is its stock."
- Isaiah 7:4 πάλιν Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 8:9 πάλιν Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
- Isaiah 23:17 πάλιν It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
- Isaiah 25:8 πάλιν He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Isaiah 28:25 πάλιν When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?
- Isaiah 30:18 πάλιν Therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
- Jeremiah 18:4 πάλιν When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
- Jeremiah 43:15 πάλιν
- Jeremiah 43:28 πάλιν
- Daniel 8:27 πάλιν I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
- Daniel 9:27 πάλιν He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3825) 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.
