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πούς

foot

G4228 Strong's Greek
poús Transliteration
/pooce/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 91 appearances

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About this entry

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πους — transliterated poús — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “foot.” Debuting at Matthew 4:6, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 84 verses — moderately common. It shares a root with πεδη, πεδινος and πεζη. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
foot
Modern gloss
foot
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G4228 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 →

84
distinct verses
The word appears in 84 distinct verses.
11 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:6.
Revelation 22:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:8.
#191
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 191 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 84 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 40 · 48%
  • Acts 19 · 23%
  • Pauline Epistles 10 · 12%
  • General Epistles 4 · 5%
  • Revelation 11 · 13%

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 84 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 40 verses · 48%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 34 verses · 40%
  • Johannine 22 verses · 26%
  • Revelation 11 verses · 13%
  • Pauline corpus 10 verses · 12%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 5%

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: Feet 75×, Foot 9×, Footstool 4×
  • American Standard Version: Feet 66×, Foot 9×, ' feet 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Feet 79×, Foot 7×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Feet 86×, For 7×, Foot 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4228 across 89 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Feet” 75×
  • “Foot” 9×
  • “Footstool” 4×

Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 4 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4228 across 95 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Feet” 66×
  • “Foot” 9×
  • “' feet” 6×
  • “Footstool” 5×
  • “'s feet” 2×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus 5 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 G4228 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Feet” 79×
  • “Foot” 7×

Plus 2 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 5 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4228 across 106 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Feet” 86×
  • “For” 7×
  • “Foot” 6×
  • “Of” 3×

Plus 4 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.

  1. a foot, both of men or beast

Word origin

Origin: a primary word

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 16:24,9

A primary word; a foot (figuratively or literally): - foot (-stool).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G4228 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
πόδας pódas Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 15:30 53
ποδῶν podō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:35 19
πόδες pódes Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 5:9 7
ποσὶν posìn Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 7:6 3
πούς poús Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 18:8 3
πόδα póda Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 4:6 3
ποσίν posín Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine John 20:12 2
ποδός podós Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 7:5 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4228, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word πους appears 246 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 234 verses in 31 books.

246
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
234
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
31 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4228) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 234. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4228) 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.

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