ᾅδης
hell
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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
- 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.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G86 appears in the Book of Luke — 2 distinct verses. 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
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.
αδης — transliterated háidēs — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “hell.” Translators differ — “hell” in the King James Version, then “hades” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 10 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (40% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G86 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 4 verses 40%
- Matthew 2 verses 20%
- Luke 2 verses 20%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 40%
- Johannine 4 verses · 40%
- Revelation 4 verses · 40%
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: Hell 10×
- American Standard Version: Hades 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hades 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hades 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G86 across 11 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 G86 across 11 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 G86 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G86 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- name Hades or Pluto, the god of the lower regions
- Orcus, the nether world, the realm of the dead
- later use of this word: the grave, death, hell
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G86 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ᾅδου hádou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 11:23 | 4 |
| ᾅδης hádēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 6:8 | 3 |
| ᾅδην hádēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 2:27 | 2 |
| ᾅδῃ hádē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G86, 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
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδικος ádikos G94 unjust
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αδυνατος adýnatos G102 weak
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
- αθεος átheos G112 godless
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
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 176 — 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.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αδης appears 71 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 68 verses in 16 books.
- 71
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 68
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 37:35 ᾅδης
- Numbers 16:30 ᾅδης
- 1 Samuel 2:6 ᾅδης
- 1 Kings 2:6 ᾅδης
- Job 7:9 ᾅδης
- Psalms 6:6 ᾅδης
- Proverbs 1:12 ᾅδης
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 ᾅδης
- Song of Solomon 8:6 ᾅδης
- Isaiah 5:14 ᾅδης
- Ezekiel 31:15 ᾅδης
- Daniel 3:88 ᾅδης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G86) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 68. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 37:35 ᾅδης All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
- Genesis 42:38 ᾅδης He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 44:29 ᾅδης If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
- Genesis 44:31 ᾅδης it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
- Numbers 16:30 ᾅδης But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:33 ᾅδης So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- 1 Samuel 2:6 ᾅδης Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
- 1 Kings 2:6 ᾅδης Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
- 1 Kings 2:9 ᾅδης Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.
- 1 Kings 2:35 ᾅδης The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- Job 7:9 ᾅδης As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
- Job 11:8 ἅδης They are high as heaven. What can you do? Deeper than Sheol: what can you know?
- Job 14:13 ᾅδης "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job 17:13 ᾅδης If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- Job 17:16 ᾅδης Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"
- Job 21:13 ᾅδης They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
- Job 26:6 ᾅδης Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon has no covering.
- Job 33:22 ᾅδης Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
- Job 38:17 ᾅδης Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- Psalms 6:6 ᾅδης I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 9:18 ᾅδης For the needy shall not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
- Psalms 15:10 ᾅδης
- Psalms 17:6 ᾅδης I have called on you, for you will answer me, God: Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
- Psalms 29:4 ᾅδης Yahweh's voice is powerful. Yahweh's voice is full of majesty.
- Psalms 30:18 ᾅδης
- Psalms 48:15 ᾅδης
- Psalms 48:16 ᾅδης
- Psalms 54:16 ᾅδης
- Psalms 85:13 ᾅδης Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
- Psalms 87:4 ᾅδης I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there."
- Psalms 88:49 ᾅδης
- Psalms 93:17 ᾅδης
- Psalms 113:25 ᾅδης
- Psalms 114:3 ᾅδης The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
- Psalms 138:8 ᾅδης Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands.
- Psalms 140:7 ᾅδης Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.
- Proverbs 1:12 ᾅδης Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.
- Proverbs 2:18 ᾅδης For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead.
- Proverbs 5:5 ᾅδης Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Proverbs 7:27 ᾅδης Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
- Proverbs 9:18 ᾅδης But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 14:12 ᾅδης There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
- Proverbs 15:11 ᾅδης Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
- Proverbs 15:24 ᾅδης The path of life leads upward for the wise, To keep him from going downward to Sheol.
- Proverbs 16:21 ᾅδης The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
- Proverbs 27:20 ᾅδης Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied.
- Proverbs 30:16 ᾅδης Sheol, The barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 ᾅδης Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 ᾅδης Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 5:14 ᾅδης Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, And opened its mouth without measure; And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G86) 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.
