ἄργυρος
silver
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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G696 appears — 4 distinct verses across 4 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
James 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
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, αργυρος (árgyros) means “silver.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Matthew (25%), then Acts and James. It first appears in Matthew 10:9. It clusters with αργυρεος, αργυριον and αργυροκοπος under a shared root. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G696 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.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 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 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- Johannine 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
- Revelation 1 verse · 25%
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: Silver 5×
- American Standard Version: Silver 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Silver 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Silver 5×, Areopagus 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G696 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G696 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G696 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G696 across 7 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.
- silver
Word origin
Origin: from argos (shining)
From ἀργός argos ( shining ); silver (the metal in the articles or coin): - silver.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G696 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀργύρου argýrou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 18:12 | 1 |
| ἀργύρῳ argýrō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 17:29 | 1 |
| ἄργυρον árgyron | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:9 | 1 |
| ἄργυρος árgyros | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | James 5:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G696, 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.
Derived from this word
- αργυρεος argýreos G693 silver
- αργυριον argýrion G694 silver
- αργυροκοπος argyrokópos G695 silversmith
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αργυρος appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 27:11 ἄργυρος
- Ezra 1:11 ἄργυρος
- Proverbs 10:20 ἄργυρος
- Isaiah 60:9 ἄργυρος
- Ezekiel 22:20 ἄργυρος
- Daniel 2:35 ἄργυρος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G696) 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 27:11 ἄργυρος Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Ezra 1:11 ἄργυρος All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
- Proverbs 10:20 ἄργυρος The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
- Proverbs 17:3 ἄργυρος The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, But Yahweh tests the hearts.
- Proverbs 27:21 ἄργυρος The crucible is for silver, And the furnace for gold; But man is refined by his praise.
- Isaiah 60:9 ἄργυρος Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
- Ezekiel 22:20 ἄργυρος As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
- Daniel 2:35 ἄργυρος Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:45 ἄργυρος Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G696) 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.
