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πᾶς

all

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G3956 Strong's Greek
pâs Transliteration
/pas/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1,224 appearances

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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.

At its core, πας (pâs) means “all.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:17. Spanning 1,065 verses in 27 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. From the same root come παμπληθει, παμπολυς and πανδοχειον. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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Modern gloss
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About this word

Strong's G3956 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 →

1,065
distinct verses
The word appears in 1,065 distinct verses.
27 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:17.
Revelation 22:21
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:21.
#16
by frequency
Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 16 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 1,065 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 382 · 36%
  • Acts 158 · 15%
  • Pauline Epistles 366 · 34%
  • General Epistles 109 · 10%
  • Revelation 50 · 5%

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 1,065 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 382 verses · 36%
  • Pauline corpus 366 verses · 34%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 298 verses · 28%
  • Johannine 138 verses · 13%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 65 verses · 6%
  • Revelation 50 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 44 verses · 4%

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: All 754×, All things 150×, Every 115×
  • American Standard Version: All 706×, Every 136×, All things 135×
  • Berean Standard Bible: All 537×, Everyone 127×, Every 125×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: All 776×, Every 152×, Everyone 101×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3956 across 1,212 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “All” 754×
  • “All things” 150×
  • “Every” 115×
  • “Whosoever” 35×
  • “Every one” 25×
  • “They all” 16×
  • “Every man” 12×
  • “Whole” 12×
  • “Any” 8×
  • “All manner” 7×
  • “Whatsoever” 7×
  • “Every thing” 6×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 18 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 33 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3956 across 1,197 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “All” 706×
  • “Every” 136×
  • “All things” 135×
  • “Every one” 22×
  • “Whosoever” 16×
  • “Everything” 13×
  • “They all” 12×
  • “Any” 8×
  • “Whatsoever” 8×
  • “All manner of” 7×
  • “All the things” 7×
  • “Are all” 7×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 66 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 G3956 across 1,134 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “All” 537×
  • “Everyone” 127×
  • “Every” 125×
  • “Everything” 85×
  • “All things” 60×
  • “Whole” 25×
  • “They all” 14×
  • “Anyone” 13×
  • “Any” 12×
  • “Every way” 10×
  • “Full” 8×
  • “Than all” 7×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 44 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 62 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3956 across 1,285 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “All” 776×
  • “Every” 152×
  • “Everyone” 101×
  • “Everything” 86×
  • “All things” 65×
  • “Things” 25×
  • “Whole” 21×
  • “Any” 13×
  • “All of them” 3×
  • “Are” 3×
  • “Continually” 3×
  • “Men” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 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 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. individually
  2. collectively

Word origin

Origin: including all the forms of declension

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 19:46,8

Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all any every the whole : - all (manner of means) alway (-s) any (one) X daily + ever every (one way) as many as + no (-thing) X throughly whatsoever whole whosoever.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 26 distinct written forms G3956 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
πάντα pánta Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 4:9 257
πάντες pántes Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 11:13 175
πάντων pántōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 10:22 131
πᾶς pâs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 5:22 92
πάντας pántas Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 2:4 88
πᾶσιν pâsin Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:15 83
πᾶν pân Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 3:10 75
παντὶ pantì Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 25:29 58
πᾶσαν pâsan Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 3:15 53
πάσῃ pásē Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 6:29 45
πᾶσα pâsa Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 2:3 45
πάσης pásēs Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 23:27 42
παντὸς pantòs Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Matthew 13:47 24
πᾶσαι pâsai Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 10:30 15
πάσας pásas Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 4:8 10
πάσαις pásais Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine Luke 1:6 6
πᾶσι pâsi Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 2:16 5
πασῶν pasō̂n Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Mark 6:33 5
Πᾶς Pâs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 7:24 4
Πάντα Pánta Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 11:27 3
Πάντων Pántōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Luke 9:43 2
πᾶσάν pâsán Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Acts 5:42 2
Πᾶσα Pâsa Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Romans 13:1 1
Πᾶσαι Pâsai Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 1:17 1
Πᾶσαν Pâsan Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine James 1:2 1
παντί pantí Adjective, Dative, Singular, Neuter Ephesians 5:24 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word πας appears 5,232 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4,096 verses in 38 books.

5,232
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
4,096
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
38 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3956) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 4,096. 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 (G3956) 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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