στῆθος
stēthos · G4738 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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chest
The trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen
ExamplesLuke 18:13 “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’
Luke 23:48 And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, after watching what had happened, began to return home, beating their chests.
John 13:25 He then simply leaned back on Jesus’ chest and said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”
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
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- τύπτωto hit 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐπίon 4
- περίconcerning, about, for 2
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Chest8.36
- The noun names the chest or breast as a part of the body. John records that the beloved disciple “simply leaned back on Jesus’ chest and said to Him, ‘Lord, who is it?’” (John 13:25).
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon στήθους, τό (from ἵστημι; that which stands out, is prominent (Etym. Magn. 727, 19 διότι…
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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