σποδός
ashes
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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G4700 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. 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.
Hebrews 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.
σποδος — transliterated spodós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “ashes.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (33% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 11:21, it then recurs through the corpus. 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 G4700 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 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 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
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: Ashes 3×
- American Standard Version: Ashes 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ashes 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ashes 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4700 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4700 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4700 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4700 across 3 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.
- ashes: placed on sackcloth as a token of grief
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; ashes : - ashes.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4700 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σποδῷ spodō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 11:21 | 2 |
| σποδὸς spodòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 9:13 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σποδος appears 22 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 22 verses in 14 books.
- 22
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 22
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 18:27 σποδός
- Leviticus 1:16 σποδός
- Numbers 19:9 σποδός
- 2 Samuel 13:19 σποδός
- Esther 4:1 σποδός
- Job 13:12 σποδός
- Psalms 101:10 σποδός
- Isaiah 44:20 σποδός
- Jeremiah 6:26 σποδός
- Lamentations 3:16 σποδός
- Ezekiel 27:30 σποδός
- Daniel 9:3 σποδός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4700) 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.
- Genesis 18:27 σποδός Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
- Leviticus 1:16 σποδός and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.
- Numbers 19:9 σποδός A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
- 2 Samuel 13:19 σποδός Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
- Esther 4:1 σποδός Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Esther 4:2 σποδός and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
- Esther 4:3 σποδός In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- Job 13:12 σποδός Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Job 30:19 σποδός He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
- Job 42:6 σποδός Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
- Psalms 101:10 σποδός
- Psalms 147:5 σποδός Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
- Isaiah 44:20 σποδός He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Isaiah 58:5 σποδός Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
- Isaiah 61:3 σποδός to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
- Jeremiah 6:26 σποδός Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
- Lamentations 3:16 σποδός He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
- Ezekiel 27:30 σποδός and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
- Ezekiel 28:18 σποδός By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
- Daniel 9:3 σποδός I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Jonah 3:6 σποδός The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Malachi 3:21 σποδός
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4700) 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.
