πούς
foot
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G4228 appears in the Dative case in the Book of John. 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.
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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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- a foot, both of men or beast
Word origin
Origin: a primary word
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
- πεδη pédē G3976 shackle
- πεδινος pedinós G3977 level
- πεζη pezēi G3979 on foot
- ποδηρης podḗrēs G4158 ankle-length
- σπευδω speúdō G4692 to hasten
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
- Genesis 8:9 πούς
- Exodus 3:5 πούς
- Leviticus 1:9 πούς
- Numbers 22:25 πούς
- Deuteronomy 2:5 πούς
- Joshua 1:3 πούς
- Judges 1:6 πούς
- Ruth 3:4 πούς
- 1 Samuel 14:13 πούς
- 2 Samuel 2:18 πούς
- 1 Kings 2:5 πούς
- 2 Kings 3:9 πούς
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.
- Genesis 8:9 πούς but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 18:4 πούς Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
- Genesis 19:2 πούς and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
- Genesis 24:32 πούς The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
- Genesis 29:1 πούς Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
- Genesis 30:30 πούς For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
- Genesis 33:14 πούς Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 43:24 πούς The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
- Genesis 49:19 πούς "Gad, a troop will press on him; But he will press on their heel.
- Genesis 49:33 πούς When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
- Exodus 3:5 πούς 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 4:25 πούς Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
- Exodus 12:9 πούς Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
- Exodus 12:11 πούς This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
- Exodus 21:24 πούς eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Exodus 24:10 πούς They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- Exodus 25:26 πούς You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
- Exodus 29:17 πούς You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
- Exodus 29:20 πούς Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.
- Exodus 30:19 πούς Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
- Exodus 30:21 πούς So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."
- Exodus 38:27 πούς The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
- Leviticus 1:9 πούς but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 1:13 πούς but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:21 πούς He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:23 πούς He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 8:24 πούς He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 9:14 πούς He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
- Leviticus 11:21 πούς Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:23 πούς But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
- Leviticus 11:42 πούς Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
- Leviticus 13:12 πούς "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;
- Leviticus 14:14 πούς The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 14:17 πούς The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
- Leviticus 14:25 πούς He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 14:28 πούς Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
- Leviticus 21:19 πούς or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
- Numbers 22:25 πούς The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
- Deuteronomy 2:5 πούς don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:28 πούς You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
- Deuteronomy 8:4 πούς Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 11:10 πούς For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 11:24 πούς Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
- Deuteronomy 19:21 πούς Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
- Deuteronomy 25:9 πούς then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 πούς Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:56 πούς The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
- Deuteronomy 28:65 πούς Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
- Deuteronomy 29:4 πούς but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
- Deuteronomy 32:35 πούς Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
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.
