ἀπόκρισις
reply
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G612 appears in the Book of Luke — 2 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.
Luke
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.
αποκρισις — transliterated apókrisis — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “reply.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Luke 2:47, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come αποκρινομαι and αποκριμα. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G612 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 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: Answer 3×
- American Standard Version: Answer 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Answer 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Answer 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G612 across 4 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 G612 across 4 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G612 across 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G612 across 4 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.
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.
- a replying, an answer
Word origin
Derived from αποκρινομαι (apokrínomai) (G611) — to answer.
From G611 ; a response : - answer.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G612 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπόκρισιν apókrisin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | John 1:22 | 2 |
| ἀποκρίσει apokrísei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 20:26 | 1 |
| ἀποκρίσεσιν apokrísesin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 2:47 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G612, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αποκρισις appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 4 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 1:22 ἀπόκρισις
- Ezra 7:12 ἀπόκρισις
- Job 15:2 ἀπόκρισις
- Proverbs 15:1 ἀπόκρισις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G612) 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.
- Deuteronomy 1:22 ἀπόκρισις You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
- Ezra 7:12 ἀπόκρισις Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.
- Job 15:2 ἀπόκρισις "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
- Job 31:14 ἀπόκρισις What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
- Job 32:4 ἀπόκρισις Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
- Job 32:5 ἀπόκρισις When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
- Job 33:5 ἀπόκρισις If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
- Job 35:4 ἀπόκρισις I will answer you, And your companions with you.
- Job 40:4 ἀπόκρισις "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
- Proverbs 15:1 ἀπόκρισις A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G612) 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.
