χιών
snow
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5510 appears in the Book of Matthew — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Matthew
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.
At its core, χιων (chiṓn) means “snow.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in Matthew 28:3. Sharing its root, it stands alongside χασμα, κητος and χαλαω. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5510 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
- Matthew 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.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Johannine 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: Snow 3×
- American Standard Version: Snow 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Snow 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Snow 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5510 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5510 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5510 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5510 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.
- snow
Word origin
Derived from χασμα (chásma) (G5490) — chasm.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5510, 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
- κητος kētos G2785 sea monster
- χαλαω chaláō G5465 to relax
- χαμαι chamaí G5476 to the ground
- χειλος cheîlos G5491 lip
- χειμων cheimṓn G5494 winter
- χηρα chḗra G5503 widow
- χωρα chṓra G5561 region
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χιων appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 12 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 4:6 χιών
- Numbers 12:10 χιών
- 2 Samuel 23:20 χιών
- 2 Kings 5:27 χιών
- 1 Chronicles 11:22 χιών
- Job 6:16 χιών
- Psalms 50:9 χιών
- Proverbs 25:13 χιών
- Isaiah 55:10 χιών
- Jeremiah 18:14 χιών
- Lamentations 4:7 χιών
- Daniel 3:70 χιών
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5510) 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 4:6 χιών Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
- Numbers 12:10 χιών The cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
- 2 Samuel 23:20 χιών Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
- 2 Kings 5:27 χιών The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.
- 1 Chronicles 11:22 χιών Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
- Job 6:16 χιών Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself:
- Job 9:30 χιών If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 37:6 χιών For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.
- Job 38:22 χιών Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
- Psalms 50:9 χιών I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
- Psalms 147:5 χιών Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
- Psalms 148:8 χιών Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
- Proverbs 25:13 χιών As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, So is a faithful messenger to those who send him; For he refreshes the soul of his masters.
- Isaiah 55:10 χιών For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
- Jeremiah 18:14 χιών Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
- Lamentations 4:7 χιών Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.
- Daniel 3:70 χιών
- Daniel 7:9 χιών I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5510) 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.
