Πιλάτος
Pilate
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 39 times (71%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (13%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 6 times (11%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 3 times (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 55 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4091 appears — 53 distinct verses across 6 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 8 verses
- Matthew 27:2 Πειλάτῳ n dat sg masc and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
- Matthew 27:13 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?"
- Matthew 27:17 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"
- Matthew 27:22 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
- Matthew 27:24 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
- Matthew 27:58 Πειλάτῳ Πειλᾶτος n dat sg masc n nom sg masc This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
- Matthew 27:62 Πειλᾶτον n acc sg masc Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,
- Matthew 27:65 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can."
Mark 10 verses
- Mark 15:1 Πειλάτῳ n dat sg masc Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
- Mark 15:2 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
- Mark 15:4 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
- Mark 15:5 Πειλᾶτον n acc sg masc But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
- Mark 15:9 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
- Mark 15:12 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
- Mark 15:14 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
- Mark 15:15 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
- Mark 15:43 Πειλᾶτον n acc sg masc Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
- Mark 15:44 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
Luke 12 verses
- Luke 3:1 Πειλάτου n gen sg masc Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
- Luke 13:1 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Luke 23:1 Πειλᾶτον n acc sg masc The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
- Luke 23:3 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."
- Luke 23:4 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
- Luke 23:6 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
- Luke 23:11 Πειλάτῳ n dat sg masc Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
- Luke 23:12 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
- Luke 23:13 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
- Luke 23:20 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
- Luke 23:24 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
- Luke 23:52 Πειλάτῳ n dat sg masc this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
John 19 verses
- John 18:29 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"
- John 18:31 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
- John 18:33 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
- John 18:35 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"
- John 18:37 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
- John 18:38 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
- John 19:1 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
- John 19:4 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
- John 19:6 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
- John 19:8 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
- John 19:10 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"
- John 19:12 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
- John 19:13 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
- John 19:15 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
- John 19:19 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- John 19:21 Πειλάτῳ n dat sg masc The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"
- John 19:22 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
- John 19:31 Πειλᾶτον n acc sg masc Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
- John 19:38 Πειλᾶτον Πειλᾶτος n acc sg masc n nom sg masc After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 3:13 Πειλάτου n gen sg masc The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
- Acts 4:27 Πειλᾶτος n nom sg masc For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- Acts 13:28 Πειλᾶτον n acc sg masc Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
1 Timothy 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.
Πιλατος — transliterated Pilâtos — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Pilate.” Debuting at Matthew 27:2, it then recurs through the corpus. With 53 verses in 6 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in John (36% of all occurrences). See 53-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4091 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 →
- 53
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #292
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 292 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 53 occurrences in the concordance →
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 53 distinct verses.
- Gospels 49 verses · 92%
- Johannine 19 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 15 verses · 28%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 2%
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: Pilate 55×
- American Standard Version: Pilate 49×, Up to pilate 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pilate 54×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pilate 55×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4091 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4091 across 55 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4091 across 55 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4091 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Pilate = "armed with a spear"
- the sixth Roman procurator of Judah and Samaria who ordered Christ to be crucified
Word origin
Origin: of Latin origin
Of Latin origin; close pressed that is firm ; Pilatus a Roman : - Pilate.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G4091 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Πειλᾶτος Peilâtos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:13 | 39 |
| Πειλᾶτον Peilâton | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:62 | 7 |
| Πειλάτῳ Peilátō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:2 | 6 |
| Πειλάτου Peilátou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 3:1 | 3 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pilate). 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
(armed with a spear), Pontius. Pontius Pilate was the sixth Roman procurator of Judea, and under him our Lord worked, suffered and died, as we learn not only from Scripture, but from Tacitus (Ann. xv. 44). was appointed A.D. 25-6, in the twelfth year of Tiberius. His arbitrary administration nearly drove the Jews to insurrection on two or three occasions. One of his first acts was to remove the headquarters of the army from Caesarea to Jerusalem. The soldiers of course took with them their standards, bearing the image of the emperor, into the holy city. No previous governor had ventured on such an outrage. The people poured down in crowds to Caesarea, where the procurator was then residing, and besought him to remove the images. After five days of discussion he gave the signal to some concealed soldiers to surround the petitioners and put them to death unless they ceased to trouble him; but this only strengthened their determination, and they declared themselves ready rather to submit to death than forego their resistance to aa idolatrous innovation. Pilate then yielded, and the standards were by his orders brought down to Caesarea. His slaughter of certain Galileans, (Luke 13:1) led to some remarks from our Lord on the connection between sin and calamity. It must have occurred at some feast at Jerusalem, in the outer court of the temple. It was the custom for the procurators to reside at Jerusalem during the great feasts, to preserve order, and accordingly, at the time of our Lord's last Passover, Pilate was occupying his official residence in Herod's palace. The history of his condemnation of our Lord is familiar to all. We learn from Josephus that Pilate's anxiety to avoid giving offence to Caesar did not save him from political disaster. The Samaritans were unquiet and rebellious Pilate led his troops against them, and defeated them enough. The Samaritans complained to Vitellius, then president of Syria, and he sent Pilate to Rome to answer their accusations before the emperor. When he reached it he found Tiberius dead and Caius (Caligula) on the throne A,D, 36. Eusebius adds that soon afterward "wearied with misfortunes," he killed himself. As to the scene of his death there are various traditions. One is that he was banished to Vienna Allobrogum (Vienne on the Rhone), where a singular monument--a pyramid on a quadrangular base, 52 feet high--is called Pontius Pilate"s tomb, An other is that he sought to hide his sorrows on the mountain by the lake of Lucerne, now called Mount Pilatus; and there) after spending years in its recesses, in remorse and despair rather than penitence, plunged into the dismal lake which occupies its summit.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
armed with a dart
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
