χείρ
hand
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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.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
9 verses where G5495 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of John. 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.
John
- John 7:30 χεῖρα n acc sg fem They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
- John 7:44 χεῖρας n acc pl fem Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
- John 11:44 χεῖρας n acc pl fem He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
- John 13:3 χεῖρας n acc pl fem Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
- John 13:9 χεῖρας n acc pl fem Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"
- John 20:20 χεῖρας n acc pl fem When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
- John 20:25 χερσὶν χεῖρα n dat pl fem n acc sg fem The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
- John 20:27 χεῖράς χεῖρά n acc pl fem n acc sg fem Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."
- John 21:18 χεῖράς n acc pl fem Most assuredly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go."
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.
χειρ — transliterated cheír — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “hand.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 3:12. It appears 167 verses across 21 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Acts. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5495 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 →
- 167
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 167 distinct verses.
- 21 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 21 of 27 New Testament books.
- #90
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 90 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 167 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 167 distinct verses.
- Gospels 82 verses · 49%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 68 verses · 41%
- Johannine 30 verses · 18%
- Pauline corpus 17 verses · 10%
- Revelation 16 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 3%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 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: Hands 90×, Hand 86×
- American Standard Version: Hand 85×, Hands 81×, With 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hand 74×, Hands 73×, Grasp 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hand 88×, Hands 88×, With 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5495 across 177 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5495 across 181 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5495 across 155 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 19 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5495 across 197 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.
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.
- by the help or agency of any one, by means of any one
- fig. applied to God symbolising his might, activity, power
Word origin
Derived from χειμων (cheimṓn) (G5494) — winter.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms G5495 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5495, 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
- χειμαζω cheimázō G5492 to toss about
- χειμαρρος cheímarrhos G5493 winter torrent
- χοος chóos G5522 earth
Derived from this word
- χειραγωγος cheiragōgós G5497 hand-leading
- χειρογραφον cheirógraphon G5498 handwriting
- χειροποιητος cheiropoíētos G5499 handmade
- χειροτονεω cheirotonéō G5500 to elect
- χραομαι chráomai G5530 to borrow
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χειρ appears 1,593 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,423 verses in 37 books.
- 1,593
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1,423
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 37 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:22 χείρ
- Exodus 3:8 χείρ
- Leviticus 1:4 χείρ
- Numbers 3:3 χείρ
- Deuteronomy 1:25 χείρ
- Joshua 2:24 χείρ
- Judges 1:2 χείρ
- Ruth 1:13 χείρ
- 1 Samuel 2:13 χείρ
- 2 Samuel 1:14 χείρ
- 1 Kings 2:25 χείρ
- 2 Kings 3:10 χείρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5495) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,423. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:22 χείρ Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 4:11 χείρ Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 5:29 χείρ and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 8:9 χείρ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 9:2 χείρ The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 9:5 χείρ I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
- Genesis 14:22 χείρ Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Genesis 16:6 χείρ But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
- Genesis 16:9 χείρ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
- Genesis 16:12 χείρ He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
- Genesis 19:10 χείρ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 19:16 χείρ But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
- Genesis 20:5 χείρ Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
- Genesis 21:18 χείρ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
- Genesis 22:6 χείρ Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
- Genesis 22:10 χείρ Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
- Genesis 22:12 χείρ He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
- Genesis 24:2 χείρ Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
- Genesis 24:9 χείρ The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
- Genesis 24:22 χείρ It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
- Genesis 24:30 χείρ It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:47 χείρ I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
- Genesis 25:26 χείρ After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 27:17 χείρ She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:22 χείρ Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
- Genesis 27:23 χείρ He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
- Genesis 30:35 χείρ That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 31:29 χείρ It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
- Genesis 31:42 χείρ Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
- Genesis 32:12 χείρ You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
- Genesis 32:17 χείρ He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 33:10 χείρ Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
- Genesis 35:4 χείρ They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- Genesis 37:21 χείρ Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."
- Genesis 37:22 χείρ Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
- Genesis 37:27 χείρ Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.
- Genesis 38:18 χείρ He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
- Genesis 38:20 χείρ Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
- Genesis 38:28 χείρ It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
- Genesis 38:29 χείρ It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
- Genesis 38:30 χείρ Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
- Genesis 39:1 χείρ Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
- Genesis 39:3 χείρ His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
- Genesis 39:4 χείρ Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
- Genesis 39:6 χείρ He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
- Genesis 39:8 χείρ But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 39:12 χείρ She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:13 χείρ It happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
- Genesis 39:22 χείρ The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was the doer of it.
- Genesis 39:23 χείρ The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5495) 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.
