τρόμος
trembling
‘trembling’ 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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5156 appears in the Book of Ephesians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ephesians
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.
τρομος — transliterated trómos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “trembling.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Debuting at Mark 16:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5156 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Mark 1 verse 20%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 20%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 80%
- Gospels 1 verse · 20%
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: Trembling 4×
- American Standard Version: Trembling 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Trembling 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Trembling 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5156 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5156 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5156 across 5 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5156 across 5 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.
- a trembling or quaking with fear
- with fear and trembling…
Word origin
Derived from τρεμω (trémō) (G5141) — to tremble.
From G5141 ; a trembling that is quaking with fear : - + tremble (-ing).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5156 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τρόμου trómou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 7:15 | 3 |
| τρόμος trómos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 16:8 | 1 |
| τρόμῳ trómō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 2:3 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τρομος appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 9 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- 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
- Genesis 9:2 τρόμος
- Exodus 15:15 τρόμος
- Deuteronomy 2:25 τρόμος
- Job 4:14 τρόμος
- Psalms 2:11 τρόμος
- Isaiah 19:16 τρόμος
- Jeremiah 15:8 τρόμος
- Daniel 4:12 τρόμος
- Habakkuk 3:16 τρόμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5156) 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.
- Genesis 9:2 τρόμος The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
- Exodus 15:15 τρόμος Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
- Exodus 15:16 τρόμος Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone; Until your people pass over, Yahweh, Until the people pass over who you have purchased.
- Deuteronomy 2:25 τρόμος This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.
- Deuteronomy 11:25 τρόμος There shall no man be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
- Job 4:14 τρόμος Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.
- Job 38:34 τρόμος "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
- Psalms 2:11 τρόμος Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
- Psalms 47:7 τρόμος For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
- Psalms 54:6 τρόμος With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
- Isaiah 19:16 τρόμος In that day shall the Egyptians be like women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Hosts, which he shakes over them.
- Isaiah 33:14 τρόμος The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
- Isaiah 54:14 τρόμος In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
- Isaiah 63:19 τρόμος We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.
- Isaiah 64:2 τρόμος as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
- Jeremiah 15:8 τρόμος Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
- Jeremiah 30:30 τρόμος
- Daniel 4:12 τρόμος The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.
- Daniel 4:29 τρόμος At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Habakkuk 3:16 τρόμος I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people who invade us.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5156) 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.
