φοῖνιξ
palm tree
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G5404 appears in the Accusative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Revelation 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 φοινιξ centers on the idea of “palm tree.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. John dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is John 12:13. Sharing its root, it stands alongside Φοινικη and Φοινιξ. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5404 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
- John 1 verse 50%
- Revelation 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.
- Johannine 2 verses · 100%
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 50%
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: Palm trees 1×, Palms 1×
- American Standard Version: Palm trees 1×, Palms 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Palm 1×, Palm branches 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Palm branches 1×, Palm trees 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5404 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5404 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5404 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5404 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a palm tree, date palm
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; a palm tree : - palm (tree).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5404 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φοίνικας phoínikas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 7:9 | 1 |
| φοινίκων phoiníkōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | John 12:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5404, 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.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φοινιξ appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 33 verses in 14 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 33
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 15:27 φοῖνιξ
- Leviticus 23:40 φοῖνιξ
- Numbers 33:9 φοῖνιξ
- Deuteronomy 34:3 φοῖνιξ
- Judges 1:16 φοῖνιξ
- 2 Samuel 16:1 φοῖνιξ
- 1 Kings 6:29 φοῖνιξ
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 φοῖνιξ
- Ezra 18:15 φοῖνιξ
- Job 29:18 φοῖνιξ
- Psalms 91:13 φοῖνιξ
- Song of Solomon 7:8 φοῖνιξ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5404) 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.
- Exodus 15:27 φοῖνιξ They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
- Leviticus 23:40 φοῖνιξ You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
- Numbers 33:9 φοῖνιξ They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.
- Deuteronomy 34:3 φοῖνιξ and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
- Judges 1:16 φοῖνιξ The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
- Judges 3:13 φοῖνιξ He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
- Judges 4:5 φοῖνιξ She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
- 2 Samuel 16:1 φοῖνιξ When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
- 2 Samuel 16:2 φοῖνιξ The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.
- 1 Kings 6:29 φοῖνιξ He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
- 1 Kings 6:32 φοῖνιξ So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35 φοῖνιξ He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
- 1 Kings 7:22 φοῖνιξ On the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 φοῖνιξ The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 φοῖνιξ The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
- Ezra 18:15 φοῖνιξ
- Job 29:18 φοῖνιξ Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
- Job 40:30 φοῖνιξ
- Psalms 91:13 φοῖνιξ You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
- Song of Solomon 7:8 φοῖνιξ I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The smell of your breath like apples, Beloved
- Song of Solomon 7:9 φοῖνιξ Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
- Ezekiel 40:16 φοῖνιξ There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:21 φοῖνιξ The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:22 φοῖνιξ The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.
- Ezekiel 40:26 φοῖνιξ There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.
- Ezekiel 40:31 φοῖνιξ The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:34 φοῖνιξ The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:37 φοῖνιξ The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 41:18 φοῖνιξ It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
- Ezekiel 41:19 φοῖνιξ so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house round about:
- Ezekiel 41:20 φοῖνιξ from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:25 φοῖνιξ There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
- Joel 1:12 φοῖνιξ The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, Even all of the trees of the field are withered; For joy has withered away from the sons of men.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5404) 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.