Ω
omega
‘omega’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G5598 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 1:8 ω n letter indecl "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
- Revelation 21:6 ω n letter indecl He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- Revelation 22:13 ω n letter indecl I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
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.
The Greek noun Ω centers on the idea of “omega.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Revelation (100%). First canonically at Revelation 1:8, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 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 G5598 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 3 verses 100%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Johannine 3 verses · 100%
- Revelation 3 verses · 100%
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: Omega 4×
- American Standard Version: Omega 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Omega 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Omega 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5598 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5598 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5598 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5598 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- the last letter in the Greek alphabet
- the last
Word origin
Origin: a primitive word
the last letter of the Greek alphabet that is (figuratively) the finality : - Omega.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Ω appears 43 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 39 verses in 15 books.
- 43
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 39
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:20 ὦ
- Exodus 28:32 ὤ
- Numbers 24:23 ὦ
- 2 Kings 3:10 ὦ
- Job 19:21 ὦ
- Psalms 114:4 ὦ
- Proverbs 2:13 ὦ
- Isaiah 6:5 ὦ
- Jeremiah 1:6 ὦ
- Ezekiel 22:3 ὦ
- Daniel 5:14 ὦ
- Nahum 3:1 ὦ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5598) 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.
- Genesis 27:20 ὦ Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."
- Exodus 28:32 ὤ It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
- Exodus 36:30 ὤ There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
- Numbers 24:23 ὦ He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this?
- 2 Kings 3:10 ὦ The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
- 2 Kings 6:5 ὦ But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
- 2 Kings 6:15 ὦ When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
- 2 Kings 20:3 ὦ Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- Job 19:21 ὦ "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
- Psalms 114:4 ὦ The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
- Psalms 115:7 ὦ They have hands, but they don't feel; They have feet, but they don't walk; Neither do they speak through their throat.
- Psalms 117:25 ὦ
- Psalms 132:2 ὤ How he swore to Yahweh, And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
- Proverbs 2:13 ὦ Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
- Proverbs 6:6 ὦ Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
- Proverbs 8:4 ὦ "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
- Isaiah 6:5 ὦ Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"
- Jeremiah 1:6 ὦ Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child.
- Jeremiah 4:10 ὦ Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life.
- Jeremiah 6:6 ὦ For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
- Jeremiah 14:13 ὦ Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
- Jeremiah 22:13 ὦ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
- Jeremiah 22:18 ὦ Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
- Jeremiah 23:1 ὦ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 27:24 ὦ
- Jeremiah 39:17 ὦ But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
- Jeremiah 41:5 ὦ that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 22:3 ὦ You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
- Ezekiel 24:6 ὦ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
- Ezekiel 30:2 ὦ Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
- Ezekiel 34:2 ὦ Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
- Daniel 5:14 ὦ I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
- Daniel 6:21 ὦ Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.
- Nahum 3:1 ὦ Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.
- Habakkuk 2:9 ὦ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
- Habakkuk 2:15 ὦ "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
- Zephaniah 3:1 ὦ Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
- Zechariah 2:10 ὦ Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh.
- Zechariah 11:17 ὦ Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5598) 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.
