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ἑταῖρος

hetaîros · G2083 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. companion, friend

    A person who is associated with someone else, though not necessarily involving personal affection (as in the case of φίλος and φίλη)

    Examples

    Matthew 20:13 “But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

    Matthew 22:12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

    Matthew 26:50 But Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you have come for.” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested Him.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 1 word
φίλος phílos · G5384 · friend
The target term ἑταῖρος and φίλος (“a comrade”) both denote friendship or companionship, occupying the same narrow subdomain of personal relationships; the target's attested use is confined to vocative address in Matthew, while φίλος has a broader distribution — a difference in usage rather than in the underlying sense of friend or companion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Companion, friend34.16
In Matthew 20:13, the landowner answers a laborer, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?” addressing him as a companion despite the complaint.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἑταίρου, ὁ (from Homer down), the Sept. רֵעַ; a comrade, mate, partner (A. V. fellow): Mt…
ἑταίρου, ὁ (from Homer down), the Sept. רֵעַ; a comrade, mate, partner (A. V. fellow): Mt 11:16 (where T Tr WH τοῖς ἑτέροις (which see 1 b., and cf. WH. Introductory § 404)); vocative in kindly address, friend (my good friend): Mt 20:13; Mt 22:12; Mt 26:50.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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