χειροποίητος
handmade
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where G5499 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.
Mark 1 verse
Hebrews 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.
“handmade” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective χειροποιητος (cheiropoíētos). First canonically at Mark 14:58, it enters the text early. With 6 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It clusters with χειρ, χειραγωγος and χειρογραφον under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5499 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 33%
- Gospels 1 verse · 17%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 17%
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: Made with hands 4×
- American Standard Version: Made with hands 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Made by hands 2×, Man-made 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Made with hands 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5499 across 6 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 G5499 across 6 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5499 across 6 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5499 across 6 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.
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.
- made by the hands i.e the skill of men
Word origin
Derived from χειρ (cheír) (G5495) — hand.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5499 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χειροποιήτοις cheiropoiḗtois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 7:48 | 2 |
| χειροποιήτου cheiropoiḗtou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 2:11 | 2 |
| χειροποίητα cheiropoíēta | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 9:24 | 1 |
| χειροποίητον cheiropoíēton | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 14:58 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5499, 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
- χειραγωγος cheiragōgós G5497 hand-leading
- χειρογραφον cheirógraphon G5498 handwriting
- χειροτονεω cheirotonéō G5500 to elect
- χραομαι chráomai G5530 to borrow
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χειροποιητος appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 3 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 26:1 χειροποίητος
- Isaiah 2:18 χειροποίητος
- Daniel 5:4 χειροποίητος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5499) 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.
- Leviticus 26:1 χειροποίητος "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 26:30 χειροποίητος I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
- Isaiah 2:18 χειροποίητος The idols shall utterly pass away.
- Isaiah 10:11 χειροποίητος shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
- Isaiah 16:12 χειροποίητος It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
- Isaiah 19:1 χειροποίητος The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Isaiah 21:9 χειροποίητος and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
- Isaiah 31:7 χειροποίητος For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
- Isaiah 46:6 χειροποίητος Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.
- Daniel 5:4 χειροποίητος They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Daniel 5:16 χειροποίητος But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 6:28 χειροποίητος So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5499) 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.
