υἱός
son
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- 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.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5207 appears in the Book of Galatians — 9 distinct verses. 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.
Galatians
- Galatians 1:16 υἱὸν n acc sg masc to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,
- Galatians 2:20 υἱοῦ n gen sg masc I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Galatians 3:7 υἱοί n nom pl masc Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
- Galatians 3:26 υἱοὶ n nom pl masc For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 4:4 υἱὸν n acc sg masc But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- Galatians 4:6 υἱοί υἱοῦ n nom pl masc n gen sg masc And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
- Galatians 4:7 υἱός υἱός n nom sg masc n nom sg masc So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- Galatians 4:22 υἱοὺς n acc pl masc For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.
- Galatians 4:30 υἱὸν υἱὸς υἱοῦ n acc sg masc n nom sg masc n gen sg masc However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- rarely used for the young of animals
- generally used of the offspring of men
- in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)
- in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,
- used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower
- son of man
- son of God
- and of angels and of Jesus Christ
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 4:17 υἱός
- Exodus 1:1 υἱός
- Leviticus 1:2 υἱός
- Numbers 1:2 υἱός
- Deuteronomy 1:3 υἱός
- Joshua 1:1 υἱός
- Judges 1:1 υἱός
- Ruth 1:1 υἱός
- 1 Samuel 1:1 υἱός
- 2 Samuel 1:4 υἱός
- 1 Kings 1:5 υἱός
- 2 Kings 1:18 υἱός
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.
- Genesis 4:17 υἱός Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 4:25 υἱός Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 4:26 υἱός There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
- Genesis 5:4 υἱός The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:7 υἱός Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:10 υἱός Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:13 υἱός Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:16 υἱός Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:19 υἱός Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:22 υἱός Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:26 υἱός Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:28 υἱός Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,
- Genesis 5:30 υἱός Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:32 υἱός Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:2 υἱός that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:4 υἱός The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:10 υἱός Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:18 υἱός But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 7:7 υἱός Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:13 υἱός In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;
- Genesis 8:16 υἱός "Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 8:18 υἱός Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
- Genesis 9:1 υἱός God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 9:8 υἱός God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
- Genesis 9:18 υἱός The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:19 υἱός These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
- Genesis 9:24 υἱός Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
- Genesis 10:1 υἱός Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- Genesis 10:2 υἱός The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- Genesis 10:3 υἱός The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
- Genesis 10:4 υἱός The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
- Genesis 10:6 υἱός The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- Genesis 10:7 υἱός The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- Genesis 10:20 υἱός These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
- Genesis 10:21 υἱός To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
- Genesis 10:22 υἱός The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- Genesis 10:23 υἱός The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- Genesis 10:25 υἱός To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
- Genesis 10:29 υἱός Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- Genesis 10:31 υἱός These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
- Genesis 10:32 υἱός These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Genesis 11:5 υἱός Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:10 υἱός This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Genesis 11:11 υἱός Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:13 υἱός Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:15 υἱός and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:17 υἱός Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:19 υἱός Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:21 υἱός Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:23 υἱός Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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.
