σχοινίον
rope
‘rope’ 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 Accusative-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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G4979 appears in the Genitive 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.
John 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 σχοινιον centers on the idea of “rope.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to John (50%), then Acts. First canonically at John 2:15, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4979 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.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Johannine 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: Ropes 1×, Small cords 1×
- American Standard Version: Cords 1×, Ropes 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cords 1×, Ropes 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cords 1×, Ropes 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4979 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4979 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4979 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4979 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 cord or rope made of rushes
- a rope
Word origin
Origin: diminutive of schoinos (a rush or flag-plant, of uncertain derivation)
Diminutive of σχοῖνος schoinos (a rush or flag plant; of uncertain derivation); a rushlet that is grass withe or tie (genitive case): - small cord rope.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4979 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σχοινία schoinía | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 27:32 | 1 |
| σχοινίων schoiníōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | John 2:15 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σχοινιον appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 25 verses in 12 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 25
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 8:2 σχοινίον
- 1 Kings 21:31 σχοινίον
- Esther 1:6 σχοινίον
- Job 18:10 σχοινίον
- Psalms 15:6 σχοινίον
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 σχοινίον
- Isaiah 3:24 σχοινίον
- Jeremiah 45:11 σχοινίον
- Ezekiel 27:24 σχοινίον
- Amos 2:8 σχοινίον
- Micah 2:4 σχοινίον
- Zechariah 2:5 σχοινίον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4979) 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.
- 2 Samuel 8:2 σχοινίον He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
- 2 Samuel 17:13 σχοινίον Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there not be one small stone found there.
- 1 Kings 21:31 σχοινίον
- 1 Kings 21:32 σχοινίον
- Esther 1:6 σχοινίον [There were hangings of] white [cloth], [of] green, and [of] blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.
- Job 18:10 σχοινίον A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.
- Job 36:8 σχοινίον If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,
- Psalms 15:6 σχοινίον
- Psalms 77:55 σχοινίον
- Psalms 118:61 σχοινίον
- Psalms 139:6 σχοινίον This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 σχοινίον Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern,
- Isaiah 3:24 σχοινίον It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair, baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.
- Isaiah 5:18 σχοινίον Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;
- Isaiah 33:20 σχοινίον Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes of it shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords of it be broken.
- Isaiah 33:23 σχοινίον Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
- Jeremiah 45:11 σχοινίον
- Jeremiah 45:12 σχοινίον
- Jeremiah 45:13 σχοινίον
- Ezekiel 27:24 σχοινίον These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
- Amos 2:8 σχοινίον And they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
- Amos 7:17 σχοινίον Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
- Micah 2:4 σχοινίον In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
- Micah 2:5 σχοινίον Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
- Zechariah 2:5 σχοινίον For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4979) 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.
