ἅγιος
saint
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Degree
- Superlative
- Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).
Every verse where G40 appears in the Book of Mark — 7 distinct verses. 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.
Mark
- Mark 1:8 ἁγίῳ adj dat sg neut I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
- Mark 1:24 ἅγιος adj nom sg masc saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
- Mark 3:29 ἅγιον adj acc sg neut but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
- Mark 6:20 ἅγιον adj acc sg masc for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
- Mark 8:38 ἁγίων adj gen pl masc For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
- Mark 12:36 ἁγίῳ adj dat sg neut For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.'
- Mark 13:11 ἅγιον adj nom sg neut When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
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, αγιος (hágios) means “saint.” First canonically at Matthew 1:18, it enters the text early. With 221 verses in 23 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. From the same root come αγνος, αγνεια and αγνιζω. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G40 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 →
- 221
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 221 distinct verses.
- 23 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 23 of 27 New Testament books.
- #68
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 68 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 221 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 52 verses 24%
- Revelation 23 verses 10%
- Luke 19 verses 9%
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 221 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 73 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 71 verses · 32%
- Gospels 41 verses · 19%
- Johannine 29 verses · 13%
- Revelation 23 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 17 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 15 verses · 7%
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: Holy 150×, Saints 58×, Holy one 4×
- American Standard Version: Holy 139×, Saints 55×, Is holy 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Holy 157×, Saints 60×, Holy place 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Holy 159×, Saints 60×, Places 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G40 across 229 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G40 across 227 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 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 G40 across 231 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G40 across 250 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 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.
- most holy thing, a saint
Word origin
Derived from αγνος (hagnós) (G53) — sacred.
Forms in the corpus
The 19 distinct written forms G40 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G40, 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
- αγνεια hagneía G47 purity
- αγνιζω hagnízō G48 unclean
- αγνοτης hagnótēs G54 purity
- αγνως hagnōs G55 pure
Derived from this word
- αγιαζω hagiázō G37 to hallow
- αγιον hágion G39 holy
- αγιοτης hagiótēs G41 holiness
- αγιωσυνη hagiōsýnē G42 holiness
- αγνος hagnós G53 sacred
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγιος appears 634 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 531 verses in 32 books.
- 634
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 531
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 32 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 3:5 ἅγιος
- Leviticus 2:3 ἅγιος
- Numbers 3:28 ἅγιος
- Deuteronomy 7:6 ἅγιος
- Joshua 5:15 ἅγιος
- Judges 13:7 ἅγιος
- 1 Samuel 2:2 ἅγιος
- 1 Kings 6:16 ἅγιος
- 2 Kings 4:9 ἅγιος
- 1 Chronicles 6:34 ἅγιος
- 2 Chronicles 3:8 ἅγιος
- Ezra 2:63 ἅγιος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G40) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 531. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 3:5 ἅγιος He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
- Exodus 12:16 ἅγιος In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Exodus 15:11 ἅγιος Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Exodus 15:13 ἅγιος "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exodus 16:23 ἅγιος He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning."
- Exodus 19:6 ἅγιος and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
- Exodus 22:30 ἅγιος You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it me.
- Exodus 23:22 ἅγιος But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
- Exodus 26:33 ἅγιος You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exodus 26:34 ἅγιος You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
- Exodus 28:2 ἅγιος You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
- Exodus 28:3 ἅγιος You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 28:4 ἅγιος These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 28:29 ἅγιος Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
- Exodus 28:30 ἅγιος You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
- Exodus 28:35 ἅγιος It shall be on Aaron to minister: and the sound of it shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
- Exodus 28:38 ἅγιος It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
- Exodus 28:43 ἅγιος They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
- Exodus 29:29 ἅγιος "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
- Exodus 29:30 ἅγιος Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
- Exodus 29:31 ἅγιος "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.
- Exodus 29:33 ἅγιος They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
- Exodus 29:37 ἅγιος Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
- Exodus 30:10 ἅγιος Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
- Exodus 30:13 ἅγιος They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
- Exodus 30:24 ἅγιος and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.
- Exodus 30:25 ἅγιος You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
- Exodus 30:29 ἅγιος You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
- Exodus 30:31 ἅγιος You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
- Exodus 30:32 ἅγιος It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.
- Exodus 30:35 ἅγιος and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
- Exodus 30:36 ἅγιος and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exodus 31:11 ἅγιος the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."
- Exodus 31:14 ἅγιος You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Exodus 31:15 ἅγιος Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 35:2 ἅγιος 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
- Exodus 35:19 ἅγιος the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"
- Exodus 35:21 ἅγιος They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 35:35 ἅγιος He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
- Exodus 36:1 ἅγιος "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
- Exodus 36:3 ἅγιος and they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill-offerings every morning.
- Exodus 36:4 ἅγιος All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which they did.
- Exodus 36:6 ἅγιος Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.
- Exodus 36:8 ἅγιος All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
- Exodus 36:37 ἅγιος He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
- Exodus 38:25 ἅγιος The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
- Exodus 39:1 ἅγιος Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:3 ἅγιος They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- Exodus 39:12 ἅγιος and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
- Exodus 39:18 ἅγιος The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the front of it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G40) 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.
