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υἱός

son

‘son’ is one of 8 main senses fuller range ↓

G5207 Strong's Greek
huiós Transliteration
/hwee-os'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 376 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.

The Greek noun υιος centers on the idea of “son.” Thayer's distinguishes 8 senses for it. Spanning 343 verses in 20 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 1:1, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside υιοθεσια. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
child
Modern gloss
son
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 G5207 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 →

343
distinct verses
The word appears in 343 distinct verses.
20 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:1.
Revelation 21:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:12.
#49
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 49 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 343 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 235 · 69%
  • Acts 21 · 6%
  • Pauline Epistles 35 · 10%
  • General Epistles 44 · 13%
  • Revelation 8 · 2%

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 343 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 235 verses · 69%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 92 verses · 27%
  • Johannine 79 verses · 23%
  • Pauline corpus 35 verses · 10%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 23 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 21 verses · 6%
  • Revelation 8 verses · 2%

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: Son 291×, Children 47×, Sons 24×
  • American Standard Version: Son 276×, Sons 55×, Children 13×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Son 301×, Sons 52×, Guests 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Son 305×, Sons 69×, Of 8×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5207 across 382 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Son” 291×
  • “Children” 47×
  • “Sons” 24×
  • “Thou son” 12×
  • “Child” 2×

Plus 6 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 G5207 across 382 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Son” 276×
  • “Sons” 55×
  • “Children” 13×
  • “Thou son” 12×
  • “'s son” 4×
  • “Of” 2×
  • “The” 2×

Plus 18 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 G5207 across 365 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Son” 301×
  • “Sons” 52×
  • “Guests” 3×
  • “People” 3×
  • “Children” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5207 across 390 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Son” 305×
  • “Sons” 69×
  • “Of” 8×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


8 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order

The 8 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. rarely used for the young of animals
  2. generally used of the offspring of men
  3. in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)
  4. in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,
  5. used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower
  6. son of man
  7. son of God
  8. and of angels and of Jesus Christ

Word origin

Origin: apparently a primary word

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 13:34,1

Apparently a primary word; a son (sometimes of animals) used very widely of immediate remote or figurative kinship : - child foal son.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 14 distinct written forms G5207 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
υἱὸς hyiòs Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:20 128
υἱὸν hyiòn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:21 63
υἱοῦ hyioû Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:1 35
υἱός hyiós Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:17 32
υἱοὶ hyioì Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:9 26
υἱόν hyión Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:23 22
υἱῶν hyiō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 17:25 17
υἱῷ hyiō̂ Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:9 15
υἱοὺς hyioùs Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 26:37 12
υἱὲ hyiè Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:29 9
υἱοί hyioí Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 17:26 7
υἱοῖς hyioîs Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Mark 3:28 7
υἱέ hyié Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 20:31 2
υἱούς hyioús Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 15:11 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5207, 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.

Derived from this word

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word υιος appears 4,475 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3,343 verses in 34 books.

4,475
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
3,343
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
34 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 34 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5207) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 3,343. 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 (G5207) 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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