ὕμνος
hymn
‘hymn’ 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
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5215 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.
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 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.
The Greek noun υμνος centers on the idea of “hymn.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Ephesians dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. First canonically at Ephesians 5:19, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5215 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 →
Most concentrated in
- Ephesians 1 verse 50%
- Colossians 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
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: Hymns 2×
- American Standard Version: Hymns 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hymns 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hymns 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5215 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5215 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5215 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5215 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.
- a song in tithe praise of gods, heroes, conquerors
- a sacred song, hymn
Word origin
Derived from αδω (áidō) (G103) — to sing.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5215, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υμνος appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 4 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 ὕμνος
- Ezra 22:46 ὕμνος
- Psalms 6:1 ὕμνος
- Isaiah 42:10 ὕμνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5215) 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.
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 ὕμνος The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
- Ezra 22:46 ὕμνος
- Psalms 6:1 ὕμνος Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, Neither discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 53:1 ὕμνος The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 54:1 ὕμνος Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
- Psalms 60:1 ὕμνος God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
- Psalms 64:2 ὕμνος Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, From the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
- Psalms 66:1 ὕμνος Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
- Psalms 71:20 ὕμνος You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, You will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
- Psalms 75:1 ὕμνος We give thanks to you, God, We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
- Psalms 99:4 ὕμνος The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
- Psalms 118:171 ὕμνος
- Psalms 136:3 ὕμνος Give thanks to the Lord of lords; For his loving kindness endures forever:
- Psalms 148:14 ὕμνος He has lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
- Isaiah 42:10 ὕμνος Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5215) 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.
