στρατιώτης
soldier
‘soldier’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
5 distinct verses where G4757 appears in the Dative case, across 3 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 1 verse
John 1 verse
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 12:18 στρατιώταις n dat pl masc Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
- Acts 27:31 στρατιώταις n dat pl masc Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."
- Acts 28:16 στρατιώτῃ n dat sg masc When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
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.
At its core, στρατιωτης (stratiṓtēs) means “soldier.” The word gravitates to Acts (50%), then John and Matthew. It turns up in 24 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in Matthew 8:9. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. 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 G4757 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 →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #513
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 513 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 24 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 24 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 14 verses · 58%
- Gospels 11 verses · 46%
- Johannine 5 verses · 21%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 4%
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: Soldiers 21×, Soldier 4×
- American Standard Version: Soldiers 19×, Soldier 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Soldiers 22×, Soldier 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Soldiers 22×, Soldier 4×, A 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4757 across 26 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4757 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G4757 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4757 across 29 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.
- a (common) soldier
- metaph. a champion of the cause of Christ
Word origin
Derived from στρατια (stratiá) (G4756) — army.
From a presumed derivative of the same as G4756 ; a camperout that is a (common) warrior (literally or figuratively): - soldier.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G4757 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στρατιῶται stratiō̂tai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 27:27 | 9 |
| στρατιωτῶν stratiōtō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | John 19:34 | 5 |
| στρατιώτας stratiṓtas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 8:9 | 5 |
| στρατιώταις stratiṓtais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 28:12 | 3 |
| στρατιώτῃ stratiṓtē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | John 19:23 | 2 |
| στρατιώτην stratiṓtēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 10:7 | 1 |
| στρατιώτης stratiṓtēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Timothy 2:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4757, 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
- στρατευομαι strateúomai G4754 to serve as soldier
- στρατηγος stratēgós G4755 commander
- στρατολογεω stratologéō G4758 to gather army
- στρατοπεδον stratópedon G4760 military camp
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
