πάντοτε
always
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 G3842 appears — 38 distinct verses across 16 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
John 6 verses
- John 6:34 πάντοτε adv They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
- John 7:6 πάντοτέ adv Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- John 8:29 πάντοτε adv He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
- John 11:42 πάντοτέ adv I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
- John 12:8 πάντοτε πάντοτε adv adv For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
- John 18:20 πάντοτε adv Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:4 πάντοτε adv I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 πάντοτε adv Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4 verses
- 2 Corinthians 2:14 πάντοτε adv Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10 πάντοτε adv always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- 2 Corinthians 5:6 πάντοτε adv Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
- 2 Corinthians 9:8 πάντοτε adv And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 4 verses
- Philippians 1:4 πάντοτε adv always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy,
- Philippians 1:20 πάντοτε adv according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
- Philippians 2:12 πάντοτε adv So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
- Philippians 4:4 πάντοτε adv Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice!
Colossians 3 verses
- Colossians 1:3 πάντοτε adv We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
- Colossians 4:6 πάντοτε adv Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- Colossians 4:12 πάντοτε adv Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 6 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2 πάντοτε adv We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 πάντοτε adv forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:6 πάντοτε adv But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:17 πάντοτε adv then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:15 πάντοτε adv See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16 πάντοτε adv Rejoice always.
2 Thessalonians 3 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3 πάντοτε adv We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
- 2 Thessalonians 1:11 πάντοτε adv To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 πάντοτε adv But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
2 Timothy 1 verse
Philemon 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
The Greek verb παντοτε centers on the idea of “always.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 26:11. The Greek New Testament uses it across 38 verses — moderately common. Sharing its root, it stands alongside πας, παμπληθει and παμπολυς. Dig into 38-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3842 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 →
- 38
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 38 distinct verses.
- 16 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
- #364
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 364 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 38 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 6 verses 16%
- 1 Thessalonians 6 verses 16%
- 2 Corinthians 4 verses 11%
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 38 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 27 verses · 71%
- Gospels 10 verses · 26%
- Johannine 6 verses · 16%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 3%
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: Always 27×, Ever 5×, Alway 4×
- American Standard Version: Always 31×, Ever 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Always 19×, All times 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Always 40×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3842 across 42 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3842 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3842 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 6 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3842 across 41 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.
- at all times, always, ever
Word origin
Derived from πας (pâs) (G3956) — all.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3842 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πάντοτε pántote | Adverb | Matthew 26:11 | 39 |
| πάντοτέ pántoté | Adverb | John 7:6 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3842, 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
- παμπληθει pamplētheí G3826 all together
- παμπολυς pámpolys G3827 very great
- πανδοχειον pandocheîon G3829 inn
- πανηγυρις panḗgyris G3831 public assembly
- πανοικι panoikí G3832 with whole family
- πανοπλια panoplía G3833 full armor
- πανουργος panoûrgos G3835 skillful
- πανταχου pantachoû G3837 everywhere
- παντελης pantelḗs G3838 completely
- παντη pántē G3839 everywhere
- παντοθεν pántothen G3840 from every quarter
- παντως pántōs G3843 altogether
- παρρησια parrhēsía G3954 boldness
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.
