στεναγμός
groaning
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.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G4726 appears in the Dative 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.
Romans 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 στεναγμος centers on the idea of “groaning.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Acts dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. First canonically at Acts 7:34, it enters the text early. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4726 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.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 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: Groaning 1×, Groanings 1×
- American Standard Version: Groaning 1×, Groanings 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Groaning 1×, Groans 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Groaning 1×, Groans 1×, With 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4726 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4726 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4726 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4726 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.
- a groaning, a sigh
Word origin
Derived from στεναζω (stenázō) (G4727) — to groan.
From G4727 ; a sigh : - groaning.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4726 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στεναγμοῖς stenagmoîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 8:26 | 1 |
| στεναγμοῦ stenagmoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 7:34 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στεναγμος appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 21 verses in 10 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 21
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:16 στεναγμός
- Exodus 2:24 στεναγμός
- Judges 2:18 στεναγμός
- Job 3:24 στεναγμός
- Psalms 6:7 στεναγμός
- Isaiah 35:10 στεναγμός
- Jeremiah 4:31 στεναγμός
- Lamentations 1:22 στεναγμός
- Ezekiel 24:17 στεναγμός
- Malachi 2:13 στεναγμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4726) 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 3:16 στεναγμός To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Exodus 2:24 στεναγμός God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Exodus 6:5 στεναγμός Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Judges 2:18 στεναγμός When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them.
- Job 3:24 στεναγμός For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
- Job 23:2 στεναγμός "Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
- Psalms 6:7 στεναγμός My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.
- Psalms 11:6 στεναγμός On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; Fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 30:11 στεναγμός You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
- Psalms 37:9 στεναγμός For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
- Psalms 37:10 στεναγμός For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.
- Psalms 78:11 στεναγμός They forgot his doings, His wondrous works that he had shown them.
- Psalms 101:6 στεναγμός My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.
- Psalms 101:21 στεναγμός
- Isaiah 35:10 στεναγμός and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Isaiah 51:11 στεναγμός The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Jeremiah 4:31 στεναγμός For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
- Jeremiah 51:33 στεναγμός For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
- Lamentations 1:22 στεναγμός Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
- Ezekiel 24:17 στεναγμός Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
- Malachi 2:13 στεναγμός This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4726) 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.
