στόμα
mouth
also: of animals, of fish, etc. fuller range ↓
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- 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
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
19 distinct verses where G4750 appears in the Accusative case, across 8 books. 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.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 5:2 στόμα n acc sg neut He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
- Matthew 13:35 στόμα n acc sg neut that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
- Matthew 15:11 στόμα στόματος n acc sg neut n gen sg neut That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
- Matthew 15:17 στόμα n acc sg neut Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
- Matthew 17:27 στόμα n acc sg neut But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
Luke 1 verse
Acts 6 verses
- Acts 8:32 στόμα n acc sg neut Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.
- Acts 8:35 στόμα n acc sg neut Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
- Acts 10:34 στόμα n acc sg neut Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;
- Acts 11:8 στόμα n acc sg neut But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
- Acts 18:14 στόμα n acc sg neut But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
- Acts 23:2 στόμα n acc sg neut The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 11:33 στόματα n acc pl neut who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
- Hebrews 11:34 στόματα n acc pl neut quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.
James 1 verse
2 John 1 verse
3 John 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 12:16 στόμα στόματος n acc sg neut n gen sg neut The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
- Revelation 13:6 στόμα n acc sg neut He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
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 στομα centers on the idea of “mouth.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 4:4. It appears 71 verses across 17 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Revelation (25%), then Acts and Matthew. Lexicons map it across 2 senses — beyond “mouth” it also covers “of animals”, “of fish”, and “etc.”. 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 G4750 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 →
- 71
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 71 distinct verses.
- 17 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
- #219
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 219 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 71 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 18 verses 25%
- Acts 12 verses 17%
- Matthew 10 verses 14%
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 71 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 21 verses · 30%
- Johannine 21 verses · 30%
- Gospels 20 verses · 28%
- Revelation 18 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 13 verses · 18%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 3%
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: Mouth 69×, Face 4×, Mouths 4×
- American Standard Version: Mouth 67×, Face 4×, Mouths 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mouth 36×, Mouths 12×, Lips 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mouth 72×, Mouths 6×, Of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4750 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4750 across 82 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4750 across 59 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 18 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4750 across 83 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 2 senses 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 mouth, as part of the body: of man, of animals, of fish, etc.
- the edge of a sword
Word origin
Derived from τομωτερος (tomṓteros) (G5114) — sharper.
Probably stregthened from a presumed derivative of the base of G5114 ; the mouth (as if a gash in the face); by implication language (and its relations); figuratively an opening (in the earth); specifically the front or edge (of a weapon): - edge face mouth.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G4750 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στόματος stómatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 4:4 | 29 |
| στόμα stóma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 5:2 | 28 |
| στόματι stómati | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 21:24 | 7 |
| στόματός stómatós | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Luke 19:22 | 5 |
| στόματί stómatí | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 10:8 | 4 |
| στόματα stómata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 11:33 | 3 |
| στομάτων stomátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 9:17 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4750, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στομα appears 379 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 357 verses in 32 books.
- 379
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 357
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 32 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:11 στόμα
- Exodus 4:11 στόμα
- Leviticus 13:45 στόμα
- Numbers 4:27 στόμα
- Deuteronomy 8:3 στόμα
- Joshua 1:8 στόμα
- Judges 1:8 στόμα
- 1 Samuel 1:12 στόμα
- 2 Samuel 1:16 στόμα
- 1 Kings 8:15 στόμα
- 2 Kings 4:34 στόμα
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 στόμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4750) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 357. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:11 στόμα Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 8:11 στόμα The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Genesis 24:57 στόμα They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."
- Genesis 29:2 στόμα He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
- Genesis 29:3 στόμα There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
- Genesis 29:8 στόμα They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
- Genesis 29:10 στόμα It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
- Genesis 34:26 στόμα They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
- Genesis 41:40 στόμα You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
- Genesis 42:27 στόμα As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
- Genesis 44:1 στόμα He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 45:12 στόμα Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
- Exodus 4:11 στόμα Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?
- Exodus 4:12 στόμα Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
- Exodus 4:15 στόμα You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Exodus 4:16 στόμα He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
- Exodus 13:9 στόμα It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:13 στόμα "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.
- Leviticus 13:45 στόμα "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'
- Numbers 4:27 στόμα At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them in charge all their burden.
- Numbers 12:8 στόμα with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
- Numbers 16:30 στόμα But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 22:28 στόμα Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
- Numbers 22:38 στόμα Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
- Numbers 23:5 στόμα Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
- Numbers 23:12 στόμα He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?
- Numbers 23:16 στόμα Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
- Numbers 26:10 στόμα and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 27:21 στόμα He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
- Numbers 30:3 στόμα Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
- Numbers 32:24 στόμα Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
- Numbers 33:7 στόμα They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 στόμα He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
- Deuteronomy 11:6 στόμα and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
- Deuteronomy 18:18 στόμα I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Deuteronomy 19:15 στόμα One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
- Deuteronomy 21:5 στόμα The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
- Deuteronomy 23:24 στόμα When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
- Deuteronomy 30:14 στόμα But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
- Deuteronomy 31:19 στόμα Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 στόμα It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
- Deuteronomy 32:1 στόμα Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
- Joshua 1:8 στόμα This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Joshua 6:21 στόμα They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 8:24 στόμα It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 10:18 στόμα Joshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:
- Joshua 10:28 στόμα Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:30 στόμα and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:32 στόμα and Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
- Joshua 10:33 στόμα Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4750) 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.
