ἀπειλή
threat
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where G547 appears in the Accusative case, across 2 books. 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.
Acts 1 verse
Ephesians 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.
απειλη — transliterated apeilḗ — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “threat.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (67% of all occurrences). Debuting at Acts 4:29, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G547 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 33%
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: Threatenings 2×
- American Standard Version: Threatening 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Threats 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Threats 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G547 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G547 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G547 across 3 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 G547 across 3 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.
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 threatening, threat
Word origin
Derived from απειλεω (apeiléō) (G546) — to threaten.
From G546 ; a menace : - X straitly threatening.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G547 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπειλήν apeilḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 6:9 | 1 |
| ἀπειλὰς apeilàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 4:29 | 1 |
| ἀπειλῆς apeilē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 9:1 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word απειλη appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 5 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 23:6 ἀπειλή
- Proverbs 13:8 ἀπειλή
- Isaiah 50:2 ἀπειλή
- Habakkuk 3:12 ἀπειλή
- Zechariah 9:14 ἀπειλή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G547) 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.
- Job 23:6 ἀπειλή Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
- Proverbs 13:8 ἀπειλή The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor hear no threats.
- Proverbs 17:10 ἀπειλή A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
- Proverbs 19:12 ἀπειλή The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Proverbs 20:2 ἀπειλή The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
- Isaiah 50:2 ἀπειλή Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- Habakkuk 3:12 ἀπειλή You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- Zechariah 9:14 ἀπειλή Yahweh will be seen over them; And his arrow will go flash like lightning; And the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, And will go with whirlwinds of the south.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G547) 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.
