ἄνεμος
wind
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G417 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
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, ανεμος (ánemos) means “wind.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 7:25. With 29 verses in 9 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (31% of all occurrences). Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 29-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G417 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 →
- 29
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 29 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #448
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 448 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 29 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 29 distinct verses.
- Gospels 20 verses · 69%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 28%
- Johannine 3 verses · 10%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 7%
- Revelation 2 verses · 7%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 3%
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: Wind 20×, Winds 11×
- American Standard Version: Wind 19×, Winds 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wind 18×, Winds 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wind 19×, Winds 11×, A 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G417 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G417 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G417 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G417 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 3 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.
- wind, a violent agitation and stream of air
- a very strong tempestuous wind
- the four principal or cardinal winds, hence the four corners of heaven
Word origin
Derived from αηρ (aḗr) (G109) — air.
From the base of G109 ; wind ; (plural) by implication (the four) quarters (of the earth): - wind.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G417 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἄνεμος ánemos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 14:24 | 8 |
| ἀνέμου anémou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 11:7 | 7 |
| ἀνέμων anémōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:31 | 4 |
| ἀνέμῳ anémō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 4:39 | 4 |
| ἄνεμοι ánemoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 7:25 | 3 |
| ἀνέμοις anémois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 8:26 | 2 |
| ἀνέμους anémous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 27:4 | 2 |
| ἄνεμον ánemon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 14:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G417, 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
- αετος aetós G105 eagle
- ατμις atmís G822 vapour
- αυλη aulḗ G833 courtyard
- αυλος aulós G836 pipe
- αυριον aúrion G839 tomorrow
- αυστηρος austērós G840 harsh
- αυτος autós G846 he
- αυχμηρος auchmērós G850 squalid
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανεμος appears 53 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 51 verses in 13 books.
- 53
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 51
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 10:13 ἄνεμος
- 2 Samuel 22:11 ἄνεμος
- 1 Chronicles 9:24 ἄνεμος
- Job 13:25 ἄνεμος
- Psalms 1:4 ἄνεμος
- Proverbs 8:27 ἄνεμος
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 ἄνεμος
- Isaiah 17:13 ἄνεμος
- Jeremiah 5:13 ἄνεμος
- Ezekiel 5:10 ἄνεμος
- Daniel 2:35 ἄνεμος
- Hosea 13:15 ἄνεμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G417) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 51. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 10:13 ἄνεμος Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:19 ἄνεμος Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
- Exodus 14:21 ἄνεμος Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- 2 Samuel 22:11 ἄνεμος He rode on a cherub, and did fly; Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
- 1 Chronicles 9:24 ἄνεμος On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
- Job 13:25 ἄνεμος Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 15:30 ἄνεμος He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
- Job 21:18 ἄνεμος That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
- Job 28:25 ἄνεμος He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
- Psalms 1:4 ἄνεμος The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- Psalms 17:11 ἄνεμος They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
- Psalms 17:43 ἄνεμος
- Psalms 34:5 ἄνεμος They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
- Psalms 82:14 ἄνεμος
- Psalms 103:3 ἄνεμος Who forgives all your sins; Who heals all your diseases;
- Psalms 134:7 ἄνεμος
- Proverbs 8:27 ἄνεμος When he established the heavens, I was there; When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
- Proverbs 9:12 ἄνεμος If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
- Proverbs 11:29 ἄνεμος He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 25:14 ἄνεμος As clouds and wind without rain, So is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
- Proverbs 25:23 ἄνεμος The north wind brings forth rain: So a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
- Proverbs 27:16 ἄνεμος Restraining her is like restraining the wind, Or like grasping oil in his right hand.
- Proverbs 30:4 ἄνεμος Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 ἄνεμος As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4 ἄνεμος He who observes the wind won't sow; And he who regards the clouds won't reap.
- Isaiah 17:13 ἄνεμος The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 41:16 ἄνεμος You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 57:13 ἄνεμος When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
- Isaiah 64:5 ἄνεμος You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
- Jeremiah 5:13 ἄνεμος and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.
- Jeremiah 13:24 ἄνεμος Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 14:6 ἄνεμος The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
- Jeremiah 18:14 ἄνεμος Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
- Jeremiah 18:17 ἄνεμος I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Jeremiah 22:22 ἄνεμος The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
- Jeremiah 25:16 ἄνεμος They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
- Jeremiah 28:1 ἄνεμος It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
- Ezekiel 5:10 ἄνεμος Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
- Ezekiel 5:12 ἄνεμος A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 12:14 ἄνεμος I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
- Ezekiel 17:10 ἄνεμος Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
- Ezekiel 17:21 ἄνεμος All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 19:12 ἄνεμος But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
- Daniel 2:35 ἄνεμος Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 4:10 ἄνεμος Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.
- Daniel 7:2 ἄνεμος Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
- Daniel 8:8 ἄνεμος The male goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable [horns] toward the four winds of the sky.
- Daniel 11:4 ἄνεμος When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.
- Hosea 13:15 ἄνεμος Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, The breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; And his spring will become dry, And his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
- Zechariah 2:10 ἄνεμος Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G417) 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.
