τάξις
order
‘order’ is one of 4 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.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
7 distinct verses where G5010 appears in the Accusative 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.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
Hebrews 5 verses
- Hebrews 5:6 τάξιν n acc sg fem As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, After the order of Melchizedek."
- Hebrews 5:10 τάξιν n acc sg fem named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
- Hebrews 6:20 τάξιν n acc sg fem where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
- Hebrews 7:11 τάξιν τάξιν n acc sg fem n acc sg fem Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
- Hebrews 7:17 τάξιν n acc sg fem for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, According to the order of Melchizedek."
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.
ταξις (táxis) is a Greek noun most often rendered “order.” Hebrews dominates its distribution — 5 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Luke 1:8. Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5010 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.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 5 verses 63%
- Luke 1 verse 13%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 13%
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.
- Hebrews 5 verses · 63%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 25%
- Gospels 1 verse · 13%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
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: Order 10×
- American Standard Version: Order 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Order 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Order 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5010 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5010 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5010 across 9 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5010 across 9 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 4 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.
- an arranging, arrangement
- order
- due or right order, orderly condition
- the post, rank, or position which one holds in civic or other affairs
Word origin
Derived from τασσω (tássō) (G5021) — to appoint.
From G5021 ; regular arrangement that is (in time) fixed succession (of rank or character) official dignity : - order.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5010 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τάξιν táxin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 14:40 | 8 |
| τάξει táxei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5010, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ταξις appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 1:52 τάξις
- 1 Kings 7:23 τάξις
- Job 16:3 τάξις
- Psalms 109:4 τάξις
- Proverbs 31:25 τάξις
- Habakkuk 3:11 τάξις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5010) 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.
- Numbers 1:52 τάξις The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
- 1 Kings 7:23 τάξις He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- Job 16:3 τάξις Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 28:3 τάξις Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
- Job 36:28 τάξις Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.
- Job 38:12 τάξις "Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place;
- Psalms 109:4 τάξις In return for my love, they are my adversaries; But I am in prayer.
- Proverbs 31:25 τάξις Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
- Habakkuk 3:11 τάξις The sun and moon stood still in the sky, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5010) 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.
