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Πέργαμος

Pergamum

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Pergamum’ fuller range ↓

G4010 Strong's Greek
Pérgamos Transliteration
/per'-gam-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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“Pergamum” is the headline sense of the Greek name Περγαμος (Pérgamos). The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Revelation. First canonically at Revelation 1:11, it enters the text early. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Pergamos
Modern gloss
Pergamum
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 G4010 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Revelation 1:11
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Revelation 1:11.
Revelation 2:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 2:12.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 2 · 100%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Johannine 2 verses · 100%
  • Revelation 2 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: Pergamos 2×
  • American Standard Version: Pergamum 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Pergamum 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pergamum 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4010 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pergamos” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4010 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pergamum” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4010 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pergamum” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4010 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pergamum” 2×

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. Pergamos = "height or elevation"
  2. a city of Mysia Minor…

Word origin

Derived from πυργος (pýrgos) (G4444) — tower.

Part of speech: Noun Location

From G4444 ; fortified ; Pergamus a place in Asia Minor : - Pergamos.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G4010 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
Πέργαμον Pérgamon Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Revelation 1:11 1
Περγάμῳ Pergámō Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Revelation 2:12 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4010, 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.

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Proper names from this root

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Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pergamum). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

In the Revised Version for Pergamos. (Revelation 1:11) Pergamum is the form usual in the classic writers.

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.

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