πέμπτος
fifth
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (75%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3991 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Revelation 4 verses
- Revelation 6:9 πέμπτην adj acc sg fem When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
- Revelation 9:1 πέμπτος adj nom sg masc The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
- Revelation 16:10 πέμπτος adj nom sg masc The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
- Revelation 21:20 πέμπτος adj nom sg masc the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.
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 adjective πεμπτος centers on the idea of “fifth.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. Revelation dominates its distribution — 4 of 4 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Revelation 6:9. Related forms include πεντε, πεντακις and πεντακοσιοι. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3991 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 4 verses 100%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Johannine 4 verses · 100%
- Revelation 4 verses · 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: Fifth 4×
- American Standard Version: Fifth 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fifth 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fifth 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3991 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3991 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3991 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3991 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- fifth
Word origin
Derived from πεντε (pénte) (G4002) — five.
From G4002 ; fifth : - fifth.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3991 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πέμπτος pémptos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 9:1 | 3 |
| πέμπτην pémptēn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 6:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3991, 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
- πεντακις pentákis G3999 five times
- πεντακοσιοι pentakósioi G4001 five hundred
- πεντεκαιδεκατος pentekaidékatos G4003 fifteenth
- πεντηκοντα pentḗkonta G4004 fifty
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πεμπτος appears 46 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 43 verses in 16 books.
- 46
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 43
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:23 πέμπτος
- Exodus 13:18 πέμπτος
- Leviticus 5:24 πέμπτος
- Numbers 7:36 πέμπτος
- Joshua 14:10 πέμπτος
- Judges 19:8 πέμπτος
- 2 Samuel 3:4 πέμπτος
- 1 Kings 14:5 πέμπτος
- 2 Kings 8:16 πέμπτος
- 1 Chronicles 2:14 πέμπτος
- 2 Chronicles 12:2 πέμπτος
- Ezra 7:8 πέμπτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3991) 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 1:23 πέμπτος There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
- Genesis 30:17 πέμπτος God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
- Genesis 47:24 πέμπτος It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
- Exodus 13:18 πέμπτος but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 5:24 πέμπτος
- Leviticus 19:25 πέμπτος In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
- Numbers 7:36 πέμπτος On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon
- Numbers 29:26 πέμπτος On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Numbers 33:38 πέμπτος Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
- Joshua 14:10 πέμπτος Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
- Joshua 19:24 πέμπτος The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
- Judges 19:8 πέμπτος He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines; and they ate, both of them.
- 2 Samuel 3:4 πέμπτος and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
- 1 Kings 14:5 πέμπτος Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.
- 2 Kings 8:16 πέμπτος In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 25:8 πέμπτος Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 2:14 πέμπτος Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 3:3 πέμπτος the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
- 1 Chronicles 8:2 πέμπτος Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
- 1 Chronicles 12:11 πέμπτος Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
- 1 Chronicles 24:9 πέμπτος the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
- 1 Chronicles 25:12 πέμπτος the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 26:3 πέμπτος Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.
- 1 Chronicles 26:4 πέμπτος Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 27:8 πέμπτος The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 12:2 πέμπτος It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,
- 2 Chronicles 15:19 πέμπτος There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
- Ezra 7:8 πέμπτος He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
- Ezra 7:9 πέμπτος For on the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
- Ezra 16:15 πέμπτος
- Job 42:17 πέμπτος So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Jeremiah 1:3 πέμπτος It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
- Jeremiah 35:1 πέμπτος The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
- Jeremiah 52:12 πέμπτος Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
- Ezekiel 1:1 πέμπτος Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:2 πέμπτος In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
- Ezekiel 8:1 πέμπτος It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
- Ezekiel 20:1 πέμπτος It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
- Ezekiel 33:21 πέμπτος It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck.
- Ezekiel 40:1 πέμπτος In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
- Zechariah 7:3 πέμπτος and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
- Zechariah 7:5 πέμπτος "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
- Zechariah 8:19 πέμπτος Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3991) 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.