ἀληθῶς
alēthōs · G230 · Greek · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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real, really, true, truly
Pertaining to being real and not imaginary
ExamplesMatthew 14:33 And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “You are truly God’s Son!”
Matthew 26:73 A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “You really are one of them as well, since even the way you talk gives you away.”
Matthew 27:54 Now as for the centurion and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the other things that were happening, they became extremely frightened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λέγωto say 1
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.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- אֻמְנָם ʼumnâm · H552 · really?, truly?, is it true?
- Hebrew אֻמְנָם emphasizes certainty or assurance ('of a surety,' 'indeed'), while Greek ἀληθῶς emphasizes truth-content ('truly,' 'in accordance with reality'); both function as epistemic adverbs affirming the reality or certainty of a statement, making them natural translation equivalents across the LXX.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Real, really, true, truly70.3
- In Matthew 14:33, after Jesus calms the storm, those in the boat worship Him, saying, “You are truly (alēthṓs) God's Son!” where the adverb affirms the reality of what is being declared.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (from Aeschylus down), truly, of a truth, in reality; most certainly: Jn 1:47…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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