παράδοσις
tradition
‘tradition’ is one of 2 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3862 appears in the Book of Matthew — 3 distinct verses. 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
- Matthew 15:2 παράδοσιν n acc sg fem "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
- Matthew 15:3 παράδοσιν n acc sg fem He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
- Matthew 15:6 παράδοσιν n acc sg fem he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
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.
“tradition” is the headline sense of the Greek noun παραδοσις (parádosis). First canonically at Matthew 15:2, it enters the text early. With 13 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Mark, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 13-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3862 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Mark 5 verses 38%
- Matthew 3 verses 23%
- 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 15%
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 13 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 62%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 38%
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: Tradition 10×, Traditions 2×
- American Standard Version: Tradition 9×, Traditions 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tradition 10×, Traditions 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tradition 9×, Traditions 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3862 across 13 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 G3862 across 13 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3862 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3862 across 14 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 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.
- giving up, giving over
- a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing, i.e. tradition by instruction, narrative, precept, etc.
Word origin
Derived from παραδιδωμι (paradídōmi) (G3860) — to deliver.
From G3860 ; transmission that is (concretely) a precept ; specifically the Jewish traditionary law : - ordinance tradition.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3862 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παράδοσιν parádosin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 15:2 | 9 |
| παραδόσεις paradóseis | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 11:2 | 2 |
| παραδόσει paradósei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 7:13 | 1 |
| παραδόσεων paradóseōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Galatians 1:14 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παραδοσις appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 1 book.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Jeremiah 39:4 παράδοσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3862) 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.
- Jeremiah 39:4 παράδοσις It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
- Jeremiah 41:2 παράδοσις Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3862) 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.
