τόκος
usury
‘usury’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5110 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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 1 verse
Luke 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.
At its core, τοκος (tókos) means “usury.” With only 2 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 25:27. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5110 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 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Usury 2×
- American Standard Version: Interest 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Interest 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Interest 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5110 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5110 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.
- birth
- interest of money, usury (because it multiplies money, and as it were "breeds")
Word origin
Derived from τικτω (tíktō) (G5088) — to produce.
From the base of G5088 ; interest on money loaned (as a produce ): - usury.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5110, 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
- τειχος teîchos G5038 city wall
- τεχνη téchnē G5078 craft
- τοξον tóxon G5115 bow
- τυγχανω tynchánō G5177 to happen
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τοκος appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 9 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- 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 22:24 τόκος
- Leviticus 25:36 τόκος
- Deuteronomy 23:20 τόκος
- 2 Kings 4:7 τόκος
- Psalms 14:5 τόκος
- Proverbs 28:8 τόκος
- Jeremiah 9:5 τόκος
- Ezekiel 18:8 τόκος
- Hosea 9:11 τόκος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5110) 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 22:24 τόκος and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Leviticus 25:36 τόκος Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.
- Leviticus 25:37 τόκος You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
- Deuteronomy 23:20 τόκος to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
- 2 Kings 4:7 τόκος Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
- Psalms 14:5 τόκος There they were in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.
- Psalms 54:12 τόκος
- Psalms 71:14 τόκος But I will always hope, And will add to all of your praise.
- Proverbs 28:8 τόκος He who increases his wealth by excessive interest Gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
- Jeremiah 9:5 τόκος They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- Ezekiel 18:8 τόκος he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
- Ezekiel 18:13 τόκος has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.
- Ezekiel 18:17 τόκος who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 22:12 τόκος In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Hosea 9:11 τόκος As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5110) 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.
