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τίτλος

inscription

‘inscription’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G5102 Strong's Greek
títlos Transliteration
/tit'-los/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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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, τιτλος (títlos) means “inscription.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in John (100% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in John 19:19. 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

Strong's · 1890
title
Modern gloss
inscription
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5102 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.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
John 19:19
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in John 19:19.
John 19:20
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in John 19:20.
#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 →


Most concentrated in

  • John 2 verses 100%

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2 · 100%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 2 verses · 100%
  • Johannine 2 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: Title 2×
  • American Standard Version: Title 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Had a notice 1×, Sign 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Title 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5102 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Title” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5102 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Title” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5102 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Had a notice” 1×
  • “Sign” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5102 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Title” 2×

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.

  1. a title
  2. an inscription, giving the accusation or crime for which a criminal suffered

Word origin

Origin: of Latin origin

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Of Latin origin; a titulus or title ( placard ): - title.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.

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