στενάζω
to groan
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G4727 appears in the Aorist tense, 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.
Mark 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 verb στεναζω centers on the idea of “to groan.” Debuting at Mark 7:34, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 6 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. 2 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 2 of 6 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside στενος, στενοχωρια and στεναγμος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4727 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 33%
- Mark 1 verse 17%
- Romans 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 50%
- Gospels 1 verse · 17%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
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: Do groan 1×, Grief 1×, Groan 1×
- American Standard Version: Do groan 1×, Grief 1×, Groan 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: We groan 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Groan 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4727 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4727 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4727 across 6 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4727 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear 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.
- a sigh, to groan
Word origin
Derived from στενος (stenós) (G4728) — narrow.
From G4728 ; to make (intransitively be ) in straits that is (by implication) to sigh murmur pray inaudibly : - with grief groan grudge sigh.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G4727 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στενάζομεν stenázomen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Romans 8:23 | 3 |
| στενάζετε stenázete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | James 5:9 | 1 |
| στενάζοντες stenázontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 13:17 | 1 |
| ἐστέναξεν esténaxen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 7:34 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4727, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στεναζω appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 5 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 9:27 στενάζω
- Isaiah 19:8 στενάζω
- Jeremiah 38:19 στενάζω
- Lamentations 1:8 στενάζω
- Ezekiel 21:11 στενάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4727) 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.
- Job 9:27 στενάζω If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
- Job 18:20 στενάζω Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened.
- Job 24:12 στενάζω From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.
- Job 30:25 στενάζω Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
- Job 31:38 στενάζω If my land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together;
- Isaiah 19:8 στενάζω The fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish.
- Isaiah 21:2 στενάζω A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.
- Isaiah 24:7 στενάζω The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
- Isaiah 30:15 στενάζω For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:
- Isaiah 46:8 στενάζω Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors.
- Isaiah 59:10 στενάζω We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
- Jeremiah 38:19 στενάζω Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- Lamentations 1:8 στενάζω Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
- Lamentations 1:21 στενάζω They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.
- Ezekiel 21:11 στενάζω It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.
- Ezekiel 21:12 στενάζω Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
- Ezekiel 26:15 στενάζω Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
- Ezekiel 26:16 στενάζω Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4727) 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.
