στρουθίον
sparrow
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.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G4765 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
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, στρουθιον (strouthíon) means “sparrow.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (50% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 10:29. 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 G4765 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 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: Sparrows 4×
- American Standard Version: Sparrows 4×, Than 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sparrows 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sparrows 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4765 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4765 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4765 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4765 across 4 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 little bird, esp. of the sparrow sort, a sparrow
Word origin
Origin: diminutive of strouthos (a sparrow)
Diminutive of στρουθός strouthos (a sparrow ); a little sparrow : - sparrow.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4765 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στρουθία strouthía | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 10:29 | 2 |
| στρουθίων strouthíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 10:31 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στρουθιον appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 5 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- 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 40:29 στρουθίον
- Psalms 10:1 στρουθίον
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 στρουθίον
- Jeremiah 8:7 στρουθίον
- Lamentations 3:52 στρουθίον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4765) 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 40:29 στρουθίον
- Psalms 10:1 στρουθίον Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 83:4 στρουθίον "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
- Psalms 101:8 στρουθίον Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.
- Psalms 103:17 στρουθίον But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, His righteousness to children's children;
- Psalms 123:7 στρουθίον
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 στρουθίον And the doors shall be shut in the street; When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
- Jeremiah 8:7 στρουθίον Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.
- Lamentations 3:52 στρουθίον They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
- Lamentations 4:3 στρουθίον Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4765) 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.
