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πίναξ

board

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G4094 Strong's Greek
pínax Transliteration
/pin'-ax/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 5 appearances

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About this entry

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πιναξ — transliterated pínax — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “board.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (40% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 14:8. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
charger
Modern gloss
board
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 G4094 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 →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
3 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 14:8
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 14:8.
Luke 11:39
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Luke 11:39.
#1,648
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 5 · 100%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 5 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 5 verses · 100%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%

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: Charger 4×
  • American Standard Version: Platter 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Platter 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Platter 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4094 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Charger” 4×

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 G4094 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Platter” 5×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4094 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Platter” 4×

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 G4094 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Platter” 4×

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.

  1. a board, a tablet
  2. a dish, plate, platter

Word origin

Derived from πλαξ (pláx) (G4109) — flat surface.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine

Apparently a form of G4109 ; a plate : - charger platter.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G4094 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
πίνακι pínaki Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:8 4
πίνακος pínakos Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 11:39 1

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Old Testament
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