σεαυτου
yourself
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
- Reflexive pronoun
- Refers the action back to the subject (“himself”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
5 verses where G4572 appears in the Accusative 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.
John
- John 7:4 σεαυτὸν refl.pron 2 acc sg masc For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
- John 8:53 σεαυτὸν refl.pron 2 acc sg masc Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
- John 10:33 σεαυτὸν refl.pron 2 acc sg masc The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
- John 14:22 σεαυτὸν refl.pron 2 acc sg masc Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
- John 21:18 σεαυτὸν refl.pron 2 acc sg masc Most assuredly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go."
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.
“yourself” is the headline sense of the Greek word σεαυτου (seautoû). Where the King James Version says “thyself,” newer translations reach for “yourself” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 42 verses — moderately common. First canonically at Matthew 4:6, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 42-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4572 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 →
- 42
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 42 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #347
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 347 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 42 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 42 distinct verses.
- Gospels 23 verses · 55%
- Pauline corpus 15 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 21%
- Johannine 8 verses · 19%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 2%
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: Thyself 35×, Own self 2×
- American Standard Version: Thyself 34×, Own self 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Yourself 33×, You 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Yourself 40×, You 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4572 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4572 across 40 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4572 across 40 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4572 across 43 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.
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.
- thyself, thee
Word origin
Derived from σε (sé) (G4571) — you.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G4572 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σεαυτὸν seautòn | Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 4:6 | 21 |
| σεαυτόν seautón | Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 19:19 | 12 |
| σεαυτοῦ seautoû | Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 18:16 | 5 |
| σεαυτῷ seautō̂ | Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Dative, Singular, Masculine | John 17:5 | 5 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σεαυτου appears 195 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 179 verses in 28 books.
- 195
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 179
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:14 σεαυτοῦ
- Exodus 10:28 σεαυτοῦ
- Leviticus 9:2 σεαυτοῦ
- Numbers 5:19 σεαυτοῦ
- Deuteronomy 4:9 σεαυτοῦ
- Joshua 2:18 σεαυτοῦ
- Judges 4:6 σεαυτοῦ
- Ruth 3:3 σεαυτοῦ
- 1 Samuel 2:16 σεαυτοῦ
- 2 Samuel 2:21 σεαυτοῦ
- 1 Kings 2:36 σεαυτοῦ
- 2 Kings 4:3 σεαυτοῦ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4572) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 179. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:14 σεαυτοῦ Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Genesis 6:19 σεαυτοῦ Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
- Genesis 6:21 σεαυτοῦ Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 8:17 σεαυτοῦ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 14:21 σεαυτοῦ The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
- Genesis 19:17 σεαυτοῦ It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
- Genesis 24:6 σεαυτοῦ Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
- Genesis 28:2 σεαυτοῦ Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
- Genesis 31:24 σεαυτοῦ God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 31:29 σεαυτοῦ It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
- Genesis 40:14 σεαυτοῦ But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
- Exodus 10:28 σεαυτοῦ Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"
- Exodus 12:24 σεαυτοῦ You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
- Exodus 17:5 σεαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
- Exodus 17:9 σεαυτοῦ Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."
- Exodus 18:21 σεαυτοῦ Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 20:4 σεαυτοῦ "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Exodus 23:21 σεαυτοῦ Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
- Exodus 28:1 σεαυτοῦ "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
- Exodus 30:34 σεαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;
- Exodus 32:13 σεαυτοῦ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Exodus 33:13 σεαυτοῦ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
- Exodus 33:18 σεαυτοῦ He said, "Please show me your glory."
- Exodus 34:1 σεαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Exodus 34:12 σεαυτοῦ Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
- Exodus 34:17 σεαυτοῦ You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
- Exodus 34:27 σεαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
- Leviticus 9:2 σεαυτοῦ and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 9:7 σεαυτοῦ Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."
- Leviticus 19:18 σεαυτοῦ You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:19 σεαυτοῦ "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 19:34 σεαυτοῦ The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 22:23 σεαυτοῦ Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
- Leviticus 25:8 σεαυτοῦ "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- Numbers 5:19 σεαυτοῦ The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
- Numbers 10:2 σεαυτοῦ Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
- Numbers 13:2 σεαυτοῦ Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.
- Numbers 18:2 σεαυτοῦ Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.
- Numbers 21:8 σεαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
- Numbers 27:18 σεαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
- Deuteronomy 4:9 σεαυτοῦ Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
- Deuteronomy 5:8 σεαυτοῦ "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Deuteronomy 6:12 σεαυτοῦ then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 σεαυτοῦ The engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 8:11 σεαυτοῦ Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
- Deuteronomy 9:27 σεαυτοῦ Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
- Deuteronomy 10:1 σεαυτοῦ At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 11:16 σεαυτοῦ Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Deuteronomy 12:13 σεαυτοῦ Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
- Deuteronomy 12:19 σεαυτοῦ Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4572) 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.
