σιαγών
jaw
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4600 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 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 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
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.
The Greek noun σιαγων centers on the idea of “jaw.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Matthew dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 5:39. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4600 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
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: Cheek 1×, One cheek 1×
- American Standard Version: Cheek 1×, One cheek 1×, The 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cheek 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cheek 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4600 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4600 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4600 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4600 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- the jaw, the jaw bone
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; the jaw bone that is (by implication) the cheek or side of the face : - cheek.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σιαγων appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 11 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 15:14 σιαγών
- 1 Kings 22:24 σιαγών
- 2 Chronicles 18:23 σιαγών
- Job 16:10 σιαγών
- Psalms 31:9 σιαγών
- Song of Solomon 1:10 σιαγών
- Isaiah 50:6 σιαγῶν
- Lamentations 1:2 σιαγών
- Ezekiel 29:4 σιαγών
- Hosea 11:4 σιαγών
- Micah 4:14 σιαγών
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4600) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 15:14 σιαγών When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
- Judges 15:15 σιαγών He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.
- Judges 15:16 σιαγών Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.
- Judges 15:17 σιαγών It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
- Judges 15:19 σιαγών But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
- 1 Kings 22:24 σιαγών Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
- 2 Chronicles 18:23 σιαγών Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
- Job 16:10 σιαγών They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
- Job 21:5 σιαγών Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
- Psalms 31:9 σιαγών Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
- Song of Solomon 1:10 σιαγών Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, Your neck with strings of jewels.
- Song of Solomon 5:13 σιαγών His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
- Isaiah 50:6 σιαγῶν I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
- Lamentations 1:2 σιαγών She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
- Lamentations 3:30 σιαγών Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
- Ezekiel 29:4 σιαγών I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
- Hosea 11:4 σιαγών I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; And I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; And I bent down to him and I fed him.
- Micah 4:14 σιαγών
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4600) 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.
