ἀστήρ
star
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 5 times (21%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 5 times (21%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (17%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (17%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (13%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 3 times (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 24 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G792 appears — 21 distinct verses across 5 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 5 verses
- Matthew 2:2 ἀστέρα n acc sg masc "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
- Matthew 2:7 ἀστέρος n gen sg masc Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
- Matthew 2:9 ἀστὴρ n nom sg masc They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
- Matthew 2:10 ἀστέρα n acc sg masc When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
- Matthew 24:29 ἀστέρες n nom pl masc But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Mark 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Jude 1 verse
Revelation 13 verses
- Revelation 1:16 ἀστέρας n acc pl masc He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
- Revelation 1:20 ἀστέρων ἀστέρες n gen pl masc n nom pl masc the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.
- Revelation 2:1 ἀστέρας n acc pl masc To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:
- Revelation 2:28 ἀστέρα n acc sg masc and I will give him the morning star.
- Revelation 3:1 ἀστέρας n acc pl masc "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
- Revelation 6:13 ἀστέρες n nom pl masc The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
- Revelation 8:10 ἀστὴρ n nom sg masc The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.
- Revelation 8:11 ἀστέρος n gen sg masc The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
- Revelation 8:12 ἀστέρων n gen pl masc The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
- Revelation 9:1 ἀστέρα n acc sg masc The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
- Revelation 12:1 ἀστέρων n gen pl masc A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
- Revelation 12:4 ἀστέρων n gen pl masc His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
- Revelation 22:16 ἀστὴρ n nom sg masc I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star."
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 αστηρ centers on the idea of “star.” Revelation dominates its distribution — 13 of 21 verses. Spanning 21 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 2:2, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside στρωννυμι, στρατια and αστραπτω. Dig into 21-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G792 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 →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #548
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 548 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 13 verses 62%
- Matthew 5 verses 24%
- Mark 1 verse 5%
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 21 distinct verses.
- Johannine 13 verses · 62%
- Revelation 13 verses · 62%
- Gospels 6 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 5%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 5%
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: Stars 13×, Star 9×
- American Standard Version: Stars 13×, Star 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stars 13×, Star 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stars 13×, Star 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G792 across 24 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 G792 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G792 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G792 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear 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 star
Word origin
Derived from στρωννυμι (strṓnnymi) (G4766) — to spread.
Probably from the base of G4766 ; a star (as strown over the sky) literally or figuratively : - star.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G792 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀστέρες astéres | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:29 | 5 |
| ἀστέρων astérōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 15:41 | 5 |
| ἀστέρα astéra | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 2:2 | 4 |
| ἀστὴρ astḕr | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 2:9 | 4 |
| ἀστέρας astéras | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 1:16 | 3 |
| ἀστέρος astéros | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 2:7 | 3 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G792, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αστηρ appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 11 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:16 ἀστήρ
- Deuteronomy 4:19 ἀστήρ
- Judges 5:20 ἀστήρ
- 1 Chronicles 27:23 ἀστήρ
- Ezra 19:23 ἀστήρ
- Psalms 8:4 ἀστήρ
- Ecclesiastes 12:2 ἀστήρ
- Isaiah 13:10 ἀστήρ
- Jeremiah 8:2 ἀστήρ
- Daniel 8:10 ἀστήρ
- Joel 4:15 ἀστήρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G792) 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 1:16 ἀστήρ God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 15:5 ἀστήρ 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 22:17 ἀστήρ that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 26:4 ἀστήρ I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Genesis 37:9 ἀστήρ He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
- Deuteronomy 4:19 ἀστήρ and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Judges 5:20 ἀστήρ From the sky the stars fought, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
- 1 Chronicles 27:23 ἀστήρ But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
- Ezra 19:23 ἀστήρ
- Psalms 8:4 ἀστήρ What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him?
- Ecclesiastes 12:2 ἀστήρ Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;
- Isaiah 13:10 ἀστήρ For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
- Isaiah 47:13 ἀστήρ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
- Jeremiah 8:2 ἀστήρ and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
- Jeremiah 38:36 ἀστήρ
- Daniel 8:10 ἀστήρ It grew great, even to the host of the sky; and some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled on them.
- Joel 4:15 ἀστήρ
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G792) 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.
