χρυσίον
gold
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- 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.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5553 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 3 distinct verses. 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.
1 Peter
- 1 Peter 1:7 χρυσίου n gen sg neut that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
- 1 Peter 1:18 χρυσίῳ n dat sg neut knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- 1 Peter 3:3 χρυσίων n gen pl neut Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
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.
χρυσιον (chrysíon) is a Greek noun most often rendered “gold.” It first appears in Acts 3:6. It turns up in 10 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 1 Peter, which alone accounts for 30% of its uses. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5553 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Peter 3 verses 30%
- Revelation 3 verses 30%
- Acts 2 verses 20%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Johannine 3 verses · 30%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 30%
- Revelation 3 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 20%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 10%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 10%
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: Gold 8×
- American Standard Version: Gold 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gold 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gold 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5553 across 9 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 G5553 across 8 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 G5553 across 12 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 G5553 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- gold, both that which lies imbedded in the earth and is dug out of it
- that which has been smelted and wrought
Word origin
Derived from χρυσος (chrysós) (G5557) — gold.
Diminutive of G5557 ; a golden article that is gold plating ornament or coin : - gold.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5553 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρυσίον chrysíon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 3:6 | 5 |
| χρυσίου chrysíou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Acts 20:33 | 2 |
| χρυσίῳ chrysíō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 9:4 | 2 |
| χρυσίων chrysíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | 1 Peter 3:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5553, 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
- χρυσεος chrýseos G5552 golden
- 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 χρυσιον appears 235 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 219 verses in 29 books.
- 235
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 219
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 29 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 29 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:11 χρυσίον
- Exodus 25:3 χρυσίον
- Numbers 7:86 χρυσίον
- Deuteronomy 7:25 χρυσίον
- Joshua 6:19 χρυσίον
- 2 Samuel 8:11 χρυσίον
- 1 Kings 6:20 χρυσίον
- 2 Kings 7:8 χρυσίον
- 1 Chronicles 18:11 χρυσίον
- 2 Chronicles 1:15 χρυσίον
- Ezra 1:4 χρυσίον
- Job 23:10 χρυσίον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5553) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 219. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:11 χρυσίον The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 χρυσίον and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 13:2 χρυσίον Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
- Genesis 24:35 χρυσίον Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 44:8 χρυσίον Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Exodus 25:3 χρυσίον This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
- Exodus 25:11 χρυσίον You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:13 χρυσίον You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 25:17 χρυσίον You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 25:23 χρυσίον "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
- Exodus 25:28 χρυσίον You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
- Exodus 25:29 χρυσίον You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
- Exodus 25:31 χρυσίον "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 25:36 χρυσίον Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
- Exodus 25:38 χρυσίον Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
- Exodus 25:39 χρυσίον It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
- Exodus 26:29 χρυσίον 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 χρυσίον 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 χρυσίον 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 28:5 χρυσίον They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- Exodus 28:8 χρυσίον The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 28:13 χρυσίον You shall make settings of gold,
- Exodus 28:14 χρυσίον and two chains of pure gold; you make them like cords shall, of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.
- Exodus 28:15 χρυσίον "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
- Exodus 28:20 χρυσίον and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
- Exodus 28:22 χρυσίον You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
- Exodus 30:3 χρυσίον 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 30:5 χρυσίον You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 31:4 χρυσίον to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- Exodus 32:24 χρυσίον I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."
- Exodus 35:5 χρυσίον 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass,
- Exodus 35:22 χρυσίον 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 35:32 χρυσίον and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
- Exodus 36:9 χρυσίον The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
- Exodus 36:10 χρυσίον He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
- Exodus 36:12 χρυσίον He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another.
- Exodus 36:13 χρυσίον He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
- Exodus 36:15 χρυσίον The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
- Exodus 36:20 χρυσίον He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Exodus 36:22 χρυσίον Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tent this way.
- Exodus 36:24 χρυσίον He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 36:37 χρυσίον 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 χρυσίον He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
- Exodus 37:6 χρυσίον He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 38:2 χρυσίον He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
- Exodus 38:5 χρυσίον He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
- Exodus 38:9 χρυσίον He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
- Exodus 38:11 χρυσίον For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 38:18 χρυσίον 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 39:1 χρυσίον Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5553) 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.
