ἌρειοςΠάγος
Areopagus
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (50%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 2 times (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G697 appears — 2 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.
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 17:19 Ἄριον πάγον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
- Acts 17:22 Ἀρίου πάγου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
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.
“Areopagus” is the headline sense of the Greek name Αρειος Παγος (Áreios Págos). It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 17:19. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G697 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 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 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 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: Areopagus 1×, Mars' hill 1×
- American Standard Version: Areopagus 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Areopagus 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G697 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G697 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G697 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
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.
- Areopagus = "martial peak"
- a rocky height in the city of Athens, opposite the western end of the Acropolis toward the west.
Word origin
Derived from πηγνυμι (pḗgnymi) (G4078) — to fasten.
From Ἄρης Arē s (the name of the Greek deity of war) and a derivative of G4078 ; rock of Ares a place in Athens : - Areopagus Mars´ Hill.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G697 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πάγον págon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 17:19 | 1 |
| πάγου págou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 17:22 | 1 |
| Ἀρίου Aríou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 17:22 | 1 |
| Ἄριον Árion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 17:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G697, 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
- παγις pagís G3803 snare
- παχυνω pachýnō G3975 to make fat
- πηγανον pḗganon G4076 rue
- πηγη pēgḗ G4077 fountain
- πικρος pikrós G4089 bitter
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Areopagus). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The Latin form of the Greek word rendered "Mars' hill." But it denotes also the council or court of justice which met in the open air on the hill. It was a rocky height to the west of the Acropolis at Athens, on the south-east summit of which the council was held which was constituted by Solon, and consisted of nine archons or chief magistrates who were then in office, and the ex-archons of blameless life.
On this hill of Mars (Gr. Ares) Paul delivered his memorable address to the "men of Athens" (Acts 17:22-31).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
[Mars Hill' HILL]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the hill of Mars
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
