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τρίτος

third

G5154 Strong's Greek
trítos Transliteration
/tree'-tos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 56 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, τριτος (trítos) means “third.” The King James Version’s older “third part” has given way to “third” in modern versions, as the renderings breakdown shows. Spanning 47 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (32% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 16:21. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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third
Modern gloss
third
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About this word

Strong's G5154 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 →

47
distinct verses
The word appears in 47 distinct verses.
8 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 16:21
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 16:21.
Revelation 21:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:19.
#286
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 286 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 47 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 23 · 49%
  • Acts 4 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 5 · 11%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 15 · 32%

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 47 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 23 verses · 49%
  • Johannine 18 verses · 38%
  • Revelation 15 verses · 32%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 14 verses · 30%
  • Pauline corpus 5 verses · 11%

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: Third 36×, Third part 14×, Third time 5×
  • American Standard Version: Third 32×, Third part 11×, Third time 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Third 48×, Third time 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Third 48×, Third time 3×, Time 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5154 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Third” 36×
  • “Third part” 14×
  • “Third time” 5×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5154 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Third” 32×
  • “Third part” 11×
  • “Third time” 6×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5154 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Third” 48×
  • “Third time” 6×

Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5154 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Third” 48×
  • “Third time” 3×
  • “Time” 3×

Plus 4 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 1 sense 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. the third

Word origin

Derived from τρεις (treîs) (G5140) — three.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 11:36,1

From G5140 ; third ; neuter (as noun) a third part or (as adverb) a (or the) third time thirdly : - third (-ly).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G5154 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
τρίτον tríton Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Revelation 4:7 24
τρίτῃ trítē Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 16:21 13
τρίτος trítos Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 22:26 7
τρίτου trítou Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Matthew 26:44 3
τρίτη trítē Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 15:25 3
τρίτην trítēn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 20:3 3
τρίτης trítēs Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 27:64 2
Τρίτον Tríton Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 2 Corinthians 13:1 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5154, 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

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word τριτος appears 143 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 133 verses in 22 books.

143
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
133
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
22 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5154) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 133. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5154) 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.

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