τάλαντον
talent
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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
- 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.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 11 times (73%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (20%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5007 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 8 verses
- Matthew 18:24 ταλάντων n gen pl neut When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
- Matthew 25:15 τάλαντα n acc pl neut To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
- Matthew 25:16 τάλαντα τάλαντα n acc pl neut n acc pl neut Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
- Matthew 25:20 τάλαντα τάλαντα τάλαντά τάλαντα n acc pl neut n acc pl neut n acc pl neut n acc pl neut He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'
- Matthew 25:22 τάλαντα τάλαντά τάλαντα n acc pl neut n acc pl neut n acc pl neut "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.'
- Matthew 25:24 τάλαντον n acc sg neut "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
- Matthew 25:25 τάλαντόν n acc sg neut I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'
- Matthew 25:28 τάλαντον τάλαντα n acc sg neut n acc pl neut Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
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.
“talent” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ταλαντον (tálanton). It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It turns up in 8 verses across 1 book, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 18:24. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5007 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 8 verses 100%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 100%
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: Talents 12×, Talent 3×
- American Standard Version: Talents 12×, Talent 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Talents 8×, Talent 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Talents 12×, Talent 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5007 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5007 across 16 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5007 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5007 across 17 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.
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 scale of a balance, a balance, a pair of scales
- that which is weighed, a talent
Word origin
Derived from φερω (phérō) (G5342) — to carry.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of the original form of τλάω tlao (to bear ; equivalent to G5342 ); a balance (as supporting weights) that is (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or talent : - talent.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5007 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τάλαντα tálanta | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 25:15 | 9 |
| τάλαντά tálantá | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 25:20 | 2 |
| τάλαντον tálanton | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 25:24 | 2 |
| τάλαντόν tálantón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 25:25 | 1 |
| ταλάντων talántōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 18:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5007, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ταλαντον appears 47 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 36 verses in 9 books.
- 47
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 36
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 25:39 τάλαντον
- 2 Samuel 12:30 ταλάντον
- 1 Kings 9:14 τάλαντον
- 2 Kings 5:5 τάλαντον
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 τάλαντον
- 2 Chronicles 3:8 τάλαντον
- Ezra 7:22 ταλάντον
- Esther 1:7 τάλαντον
- Zechariah 5:7 τάλαντον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5007) 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.
- Exodus 25:39 τάλαντον It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
- Exodus 39:1 τάλαντον Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:2 τάλαντον He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 39:4 τάλαντον They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
- Exodus 39:6 τάλαντον They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 12:30 ταλάντον He took the crown of their king from off his head; and the weight of it was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
- 1 Kings 9:14 τάλαντον Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
- 1 Kings 9:17 τάλαντον Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
- 1 Kings 10:10 τάλαντον She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:14 τάλαντον Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
- 1 Kings 16:24 τάλαντον He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria.
- 1 Kings 21:39 τάλαντον
- 2 Kings 5:5 τάλαντον The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
- 2 Kings 5:22 τάλαντον He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing.
- 2 Kings 15:19 τάλαντον There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
- 2 Kings 18:14 τάλαντον Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
- 2 Kings 23:33 τάλαντον Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 τάλαντον When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 τάλαντον David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
- 1 Chronicles 22:14 τάλαντον Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them.
- 1 Chronicles 29:4 τάλαντον even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
- 1 Chronicles 29:7 τάλαντον and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8 τάλαντον He made the most holy house: the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
- 2 Chronicles 8:18 τάλαντον Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:9 τάλαντον She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:13 τάλαντον Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
- 2 Chronicles 25:6 ταλάντον He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
- 2 Chronicles 25:9 τάλαντον Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? The man of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.
- 2 Chronicles 27:5 τάλαντον He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third.
- 2 Chronicles 36:3 τάλαντονταλάντον The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- Ezra 7:22 ταλάντον to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
- Ezra 8:26 τάλαντον I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;
- Esther 1:7 τάλαντον They gave them drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.
- Esther 3:9 τάλαντον If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
- Esther 4:7 τάλαντον Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
- Zechariah 5:7 τάλαντον (and, behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5007) 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.
