πλευρά
side
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4125 appears — 5 distinct verses across 2 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.
John 4 verses
- John 19:34 πλευρὰν n acc sg fem However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
- John 20:20 πλευρὰν n acc sg fem When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
- John 20:25 πλευρὰν n acc sg fem The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
- John 20:27 πλευράν n acc sg fem Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."
Acts 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.
“side” is the headline sense of the Greek noun πλευρα (pleurá). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in John. First canonically at John 19:34, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4125 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.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #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 →
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 4 verses · 80%
- Johannine 4 verses · 80%
- 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: Side 5×
- American Standard Version: Side 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Side 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Side 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4125 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4125 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4125 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4125 across 5 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.
- the side of the body
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; a rib that is (by extension) side : - side.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4125 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πλευρὰν pleuràn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | John 19:34 | 4 |
| πλευράν pleurán | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | John 20:27 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πλευρα appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 9 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:21 πλευρά
- Exodus 27:7 πλευρά
- Numbers 33:55 πλευρά
- 2 Samuel 2:16 πλευρά
- 1 Kings 6:5 πλευρά
- Job 40:18 πλευρά
- Proverbs 22:27 πλευρά
- Isaiah 11:5 πλευρά
- Ezekiel 34:21 πλευρά
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4125) 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 2:21 πλευρά Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 2:22 πλευρά He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- Exodus 27:7 πλευρά Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.
- Numbers 33:55 πλευρά But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those who you let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.
- 2 Samuel 2:16 πλευρά They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 13:34 πλευρά But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.
- 2 Samuel 16:13 πλευρά So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
- 2 Samuel 21:14 πλευρά They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.
- 1 Kings 6:5 πλευρά Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
- 1 Kings 6:6 πλευρά The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:8 πλευρά The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
- 1 Kings 6:15 πλευρά He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
- 1 Kings 7:9 πλευρά All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
- 1 Kings 7:40 πλευρά Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
- 1 Kings 8:19 πλευρά nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
- Job 40:18 πλευρά His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
- Proverbs 22:27 πλευρά If you don't have means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?
- Isaiah 11:5 πλευρά Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
- Ezekiel 34:21 πλευρά Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
- Ezekiel 41:5 πλευρά Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
- Ezekiel 41:7 πλευρά The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].
- Ezekiel 41:8 πλευρά I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:9 πλευρά The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4125) 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.
