ἄστρον
constellation
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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
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter 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 G798 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 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.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 7:43 ἄστρον n acc sg neut You took up the tent of Moloch, The star of your god Rephan, The figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'
- Acts 27:20 ἄστρων n gen pl neut When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small tempest pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
Hebrews 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.
“constellation” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αστρον (ástron). With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 21:25. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G798 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.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 75%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- Hebrews 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: Stars 3×
- American Standard Version: Stars 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stars 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stars 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G798 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 G798 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 G798 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 G798 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 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.
- a group of stars, a constellation
- a star
Word origin
Derived from αστηρ (astḗr) (G792) — star.
Neuter from G792 ; properly a constellation ; put for a single star (natural or artificial): - star.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G798 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἄστρα ástra | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 11:12 | 1 |
| ἄστροις ástrois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 21:25 | 1 |
| ἄστρον ástron | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 7:43 | 1 |
| ἄστρων ástrōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Acts 27:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G798, 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 αστρον appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 25 verses in 14 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 25
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 32:13 ἄστρον
- Numbers 24:17 ἄστρον
- Deuteronomy 1:10 ἄστρον
- Ezra 14:15 ἄστρον
- Job 3:9 ἄστρον
- Psalms 135:9 ἄστρον
- Isaiah 14:13 ἄστρον
- Jeremiah 28:9 ἄστρον
- Ezekiel 32:7 ἄστρον
- Daniel 3:36 ἄστρον
- Joel 2:10 ἄστρον
- Amos 5:26 ἄστρον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G798) 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 32:13 ἄστρον Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Numbers 24:17 ἄστρον I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult.
- Deuteronomy 1:10 ἄστρον Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
- Deuteronomy 10:22 ἄστρον Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
- Deuteronomy 28:62 ἄστρον You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
- Ezra 14:15 ἄστρον
- Job 3:9 ἄστρον Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
- Job 9:7 ἄστρον Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars;
- Job 25:5 ἄστρον Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight;
- Job 38:7 ἄστρον When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- Psalms 135:9 ἄστρον Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, On Pharaoh, and on all his servants;
- Psalms 146:4 ἄστρον His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
- Psalms 148:3 ἄστρον Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
- Isaiah 14:13 ἄστρον You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
- Isaiah 34:4 ἄστρον All the host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
- Isaiah 45:12 ἄστρον I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.
- Jeremiah 28:9 ἄστρον The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.
- Ezekiel 32:7 ἄστρον When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
- Daniel 3:36 ἄστρον
- Daniel 3:63 ἄστρον
- Daniel 12:3 ἄστρον Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
- Joel 2:10 ἄστρον The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.
- Amos 5:26 ἄστρον Yes, you have borne the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
- Obadiah 1:4 ἄστρον Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
- Nahum 3:16 ἄστρον You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G798) 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.
