Word

ἄνθος

ánthos · G438 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

flower

The blossom of a plant

Examples
James 1:10 but the rich person is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
James 1:11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so also the rich person, in the midst of his pursuits, will die out.
1 Peter 1:24 For, “ALL FLESH IS LIKE GRASS, AND ALL ITS GLORY IS LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERS, AND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF,

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

χόρτοςgrass 2
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐκπίπτωto fall 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

δόξαglory 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

צִיץ tsîyts · H6731 · blossom, flower, (golden) plate: Hebrew צִיץ (tsîyts, H6731) serves as the direct semantic equivalent for Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, G438) in the LXX when denoting the botanical sense of 'blossom' or 'flower,' representing the standard translation relationship for this concept across the two languages.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Flower3.56: In James 1:10, the rich person is compared to flowering grass, since “like flowering grass he will pass away” and, as verse 11 continues, “its flower (ánthos) falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed,” naming the blossom itself as an image of fleeting beauty.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνθεος, τό (from Homer down); a flower: Jas 1:10; 1 Pet 1:24.

ἀνθεος, τό (from Homer down); a flower: Jas 1:10; 1 Pet 1:24.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Fruit Parts of Plants4 occurrences

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