Σαδδουκαῖος
Sadducee
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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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 9 times (60%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 5 times (33%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4523 appears — 14 distinct verses across 4 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.
Matthew 7 verses
- Matthew 3:7 Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Matthew 16:1 Σαδδουκαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
- Matthew 16:6 Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
- Matthew 16:11 Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
- Matthew 16:12 Σαδδουκαίων Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc n gen pl masc Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- Matthew 22:23 Σαδδουκαῖοι n nom pl masc On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
- Matthew 22:34 Σαδδουκαίους n acc pl masc But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 4:1 Σαδδουκαῖοι n nom pl masc As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
- Acts 5:17 Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
- Acts 23:6 Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
- Acts 23:7 Σαδδουκαίων n gen pl masc When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
- Acts 23:8 Σαδδουκαῖοι n nom pl masc For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
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.
Σαδδουκαιος (Saddoukaîos) is a Greek name most often rendered “Sadducee.” Matthew dominates its distribution — 7 of 14 verses. Spanning 14 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 3:7. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4523 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 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 14 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 64%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 43%
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: Sadducees 14×
- American Standard Version: Sadducees 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sadducees 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sadducees 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4523 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4523 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4523 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4523 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- Sadducees = "the righteous"
- a religious party at the time of Christ among the Jews…
Word origin
Derived from Σαδωκ (Sadṓk) (G4524) — Shealtiel.
Probably from G4524 ; a Sadducaean (that is Tsadokian ) or follower of a certain heretical Israelite : - Sadducee.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4523 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Σαδδουκαίων Saddoukaíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 3:7 | 9 |
| Σαδδουκαῖοι Saddoukaîoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 16:1 | 5 |
| Σαδδουκαίους Saddoukaíous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 22:34 | 1 |
