ἀριθμέω
to number
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G705 appears in the Perfect tense, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
Luke 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.
“to number” is the headline sense of the Greek verb αριθμεω (arithméō). The Greek New Testament uses it only 3 verses. More than a third of its appearances fall in Matthew. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 10:30. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G705 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.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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
- Matthew 1 verse 33%
- Luke 1 verse 33%
- Revelation 1 verse 33%
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.
- Gospels 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
- Johannine 1 verse · 33%
- Revelation 1 verse · 33%
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: Numbered 2×
- American Standard Version: Numbered 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are all numbered 1×, Count 1×, Numbered 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Been numbered 1×, Have 1×, Number 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G705 across 4 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G705 across 4 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 G705 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G705 across 4 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.
- to number
Word origin
Derived from αριθμος (arithmós) (G706) — number.
From G706 ; to enumerate or count : - number.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G705 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀριθμῆσαι arithmē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Revelation 7:9 | 1 |
| ἠρίθμηνται ēríthmēntai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 12:7 | 1 |
| ἠριθμημέναι ērithmēménai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 10:30 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αριθμεω appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 35 verses in 15 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 35
- 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 14:14 ἀριθμέω
- Leviticus 23:15 ἀριθμέω
- 2 Samuel 24:1 ἀριθμέω
- 1 Kings 3:8 ἀριθμέω
- 2 Kings 12:11 ἀριθμέω
- 1 Chronicles 21:1 ἀριθμέω
- 2 Chronicles 2:16 ἀριθμέω
- Ezra 1:8 ἀριθμέω
- Job 3:6 ἀριθμέω
- Psalms 146:4 ἀριθμέω
- Proverbs 8:21 ἀριθμέω
- Ecclesiastes 1:15 ἀριθμέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G705) 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 14:14 ἀριθμέω When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
- Genesis 15:5 ἀριθμέω Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
- Genesis 16:10 ἀριθμέω The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
- Genesis 32:13 ἀριθμέω He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
- Genesis 41:49 ἀριθμέω Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
- Leviticus 23:15 ἀριθμέω "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
- Leviticus 23:16 ἀριθμέω even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
- 2 Samuel 24:1 ἀριθμέω Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 24:10 ἀριθμέω David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
- 1 Kings 3:8 ἀριθμέω Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.
- 2 Kings 12:11 ἀριθμέω They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,
- 1 Chronicles 21:1 ἀριθμέω Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 21:2 ἀριθμέω David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.
- 1 Chronicles 21:6 ἀριθμέω But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
- 1 Chronicles 21:17 ἀριθμέω David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.
- 1 Chronicles 23:3 ἀριθμέω The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:24 ἀριθμέω Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
- 2 Chronicles 2:16 ἀριθμέω and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 5:6 ἀριθμέω King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
- 2 Chronicles 25:5 ἀριθμέω Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.
- Ezra 1:8 ἀριθμέω even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
- Job 3:6 ἀριθμέω As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
- Job 14:16 ἀριθμέω But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
- Job 28:26 ἀριθμέω When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;
- Job 36:27 ἀριθμέω For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,
- Job 38:37 ἀριθμέω Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
- Job 39:2 ἀριθμέω Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
- Psalms 146:4 ἀριθμέω His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
- Proverbs 8:21 ἀριθμέω That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15 ἀριθμέω That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
- Isaiah 33:18 ἀριθμέω Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed [the tribute]? where is he who counted the towers?
- Jeremiah 40:13 ἀριθμέω Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
- Daniel 4:29 ἀριθμέω At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Daniel 5:15 ἀριθμέω Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
- Daniel 5:17 ἀριθμέω Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G705) 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.
