χρύσεος
golden
‘golden’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 10 distinct
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 5 times (28%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (17%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (17%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (6%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (6%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (6%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Feminine 1 time (6%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (6%)
+2 more forms (2 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5552 appears — 16 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
Revelation 14 verses
- Revelation 1:12 χρυσᾶς adj acc pl fem I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
- Revelation 1:13 χρυσᾶν adj acc sg fem And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
- Revelation 1:20 χρυσᾶς adj acc pl fem the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.
- Revelation 2:1 χρυσῶν adj gen pl fem To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:
- Revelation 4:4 χρυσοῦς adj acc pl masc Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
- Revelation 5:8 χρυσᾶς adj acc pl fem Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- Revelation 8:3 χρυσοῦν χρυσοῦν adj acc sg masc adj acc sg neut Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
- Revelation 9:13 χρυσοῦ adj gen sg neut The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
- Revelation 9:20 χρυσᾶ adj acc pl neut The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
- Revelation 14:14 χρυσοῦν adj acc sg masc I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 15:6 χρυσᾶς adj acc pl fem The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
- Revelation 15:7 χρυσᾶς adj acc pl fem One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
- Revelation 17:4 χρυσοῦν adj acc sg neut The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
- Revelation 21:15 χρυσοῦν adj acc sg masc He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
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.
χρυσεος — transliterated chrýseos — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “golden.” Its uses cluster heavily in Revelation (88% of all occurrences). Spanning 16 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at 2 Timothy 2:20, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5552 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #664
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 664 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 14 verses 88%
- 2 Timothy 1 verse 6%
- Hebrews 1 verse 6%
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 16 distinct verses.
- Johannine 14 verses · 88%
- Revelation 14 verses · 88%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 6%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 6%
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: Golden 14×, Gold 3×
- American Standard Version: Golden 13×, Gold 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Golden 15×, Gold 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Golden 16×, Gold 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5552 across 18 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5552 across 18 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 G5552 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5552 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- golden
- made of gold
- overlaid or covered with gold
Word origin
Derived from χρυσος (chrysós) (G5557) — gold.
From G5557 ; made of gold : - of gold golden.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5552 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρυσοῦν chrysoûn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 8:3 | 6 |
| χρυσᾶς chrysâs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 1:12 | 5 |
| χρυσᾶ chrysâ | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 9:20 | 2 |
| χρυσοῦ chrysoû | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 9:13 | 1 |
| χρυσοῦς chrysoûs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 4:4 | 1 |
| χρυσᾶν chrysân | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 1:13 | 1 |
| χρυσῆ chrysē̂ | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 9:4 | 1 |
| χρυσῶν chrysō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 2:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5552, 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
- χρυσιον chrysíon G5553 gold
- χρυσοδακτυλιος chrysodaktýlios G5554 gold-ringed
- χρυσολιθος chrysólithos G5555 chrysolite
- χρυσοπρασος chrysóprasos G5556 chrysoprase
- χρυσοω chrysóō G5558 to gild
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χρυσεος appears 175 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 154 verses in 23 books.
- 175
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 154
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:22 χρύσεος
- Exodus 3:22 χρυσοῦς
- Leviticus 8:9 χρυσοῦς
- Numbers 4:11 χρυσοῦς
- Joshua 7:21 χρυσοῦς
- Judges 8:24 χρυσοῦς
- 1 Samuel 6:4 χρυσοῦς
- 2 Samuel 1:24 χρυσοῦς
- 1 Kings 7:34 χρυσοῦς
- 2 Kings 5:5 χρυσοῦς
- 1 Chronicles 18:7 χρυσοῦς
- 2 Chronicles 4:7 χρυσοῦς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5552) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 154. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:22 χρύσεοςχρυσοῦς 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 24:53 χρύσεος The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
- Genesis 37:28 χρυσοῦς Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
- Genesis 41:42 χρύσεος Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
- Genesis 45:22 χρυσοῦς To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
- Exodus 3:22 χρυσοῦς But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Egyptians.
- Exodus 11:2 χρυσοῦς Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
- Exodus 12:35 χρυσοῦς The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
- Exodus 16:33 χρυσοῦς Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
- Exodus 20:23 χρυσοῦς You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.
- Exodus 25:11 χρυσοῦς You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:12 χρυσοῦς You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
- Exodus 25:18 χρυσοῦς You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
- Exodus 25:24 χρυσοῦς You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:26 χρυσοῦς You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
- Exodus 26:6 χρυσοῦς You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
- Exodus 26:29 χρυσοῦς You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
- Exodus 26:32 χρυσοῦς You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 26:37 χρυσοῦς You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 28:33 χρυσοῦς On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Exodus 28:34 χρυσοῦς a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 28:36 χρυσοῦς "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'
- Exodus 30:3 χρυσοῦς You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 30:4 χρυσοῦς You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
- Exodus 32:2 χρυσοῦς Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."
- Exodus 32:3 χρυσοῦς All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
- Exodus 32:31 χρυσοῦς Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
- Exodus 35:22 χρυσοῦς They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, ear-rings, signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
- Exodus 36:23 χρυσοῦς He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south side southward.
- Exodus 36:26 χρυσοῦς and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 36:27 χρυσοῦς For the far part of the tent westward he made six boards.
- Exodus 36:32 χρυσοῦς and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward.
- Exodus 36:33 χρυσοῦς He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
- Exodus 36:37 χρυσοῦς He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
- Exodus 37:4 χρυσοῦς He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
- Exodus 38:3 χρυσοῦς He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.
- Exodus 38:6 χρυσοῦς He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.
- Exodus 38:12 χρυσοῦς For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 38:13 χρυσοῦς For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
- Exodus 38:16 χρυσοῦς All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
- Exodus 38:17 χρυσοῦς The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
- Exodus 38:18 χρυσοῦς The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.
- Exodus 38:19 χρυσοῦς Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 40:5 χρυσοῦς You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.
- Exodus 40:26 χρυσοῦς He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;
- Leviticus 8:9 χρυσοῦς He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 4:11 χρυσοῦς On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
- Numbers 7:14 χρυσοῦς one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:20 χρυσοῦς one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:26 χρυσοῦς one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5552) 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.
