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πανήγυρις

public assembly

‘public assembly’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G3831 Strong's Greek
panḗgyris Transliteration
/pan-ay'-goo-ris/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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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.

πανηγυρις — transliterated panḗgyris — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “public assembly.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Hebrews. A true hapax — its single appearance is Hebrews 12:23. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
general assembly
Modern gloss
public assembly
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3831 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Hebrews 12:23
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Hebrews 12:23.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 1 · 100%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Hebrews 1 verse · 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: General assembly 1×
  • American Standard Version: General assembly 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Joyful assembly 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Assembly 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “General assembly” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “General assembly” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Joyful assembly” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Assembly” 1×

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.

  1. a festal gathering of the whole people to celebrate public games or other solemnities
  2. a public festal assembly

Word origin

Derived from πας (pâs) (G3956) — all.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 17:02,8

From G3956 and a derivative of G58 ; a mass meeting that is (figuratively) universal companionship : - general assembly.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3831, 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

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 17 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word πανηγυρις appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 3 books.

4
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
4
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
3 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3831) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3831) 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.

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