Word

στρατιώτης

stratiṓtēs · G4757 · Greek · 26 occurrences

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Meanings

soldier

A person of ordinary rank in an army

Examples
Matthew 8:9 “For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
Matthew 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort to Him.
Matthew 28:12 And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

How it’s used In 8 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 3 groups

ἡγεμώνgovernor, ruler 1
προσκαρτερέωto devote oneself to 1
ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

6 occurrences in 6 groups

διακόσιοιtwo hundred 1
δύοtwo 1
ἕκαστοςeach 1
εὐσεβήςdevout 1
καλόςgood 1
φυλάσσωto keep, to guard 1

What it doesIt is the subject

10 occurrences in 11 groups

Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 5 groups

ἔχωto have 2
εἴδωto know 1
ἑτοιμάζωto prepare, to make ready 1
παραλαμβάνωto take along, to receive 1
φωνέωto call, to cry out 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
ἔπωto say 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

τάραχοςcommotion 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

μεταξύbetween 2
σύνwith, together with 2
ὑπόby, under 2
ἐνin 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

βουλήplan 1
τετράδιονsquad 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Soldier55.17: The noun names an ordinary member of the military. The centurion tells Jesus, “I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes” (Matthew 8:9).

Word family 11 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

στρατιά stratiá · G4756 · throng of angels, ranks of angels, the stars of heaven · 2×στρατιώτηςstratiṓtēs · G4757στρατηγός stratēgós · G4755 · magistrate, ruler of a city, commander of the Temple guard · 10×στράτευμα stráteuma · G4753 · army, some soldiers, a few soldiers · 8×στρατεύομαι strateúomai · G4754 · to battle, to fight, to engage in war · 7×στρατεία strateía · G4752 · war, warfare · 2×συστρατιώτης systratiṓtēs · G4961 · one who struggles along with, one who works arduously along with, fellow struggler · 2×ἀντιστρατεύομαι antistrateúomai · G497 · to be clearly against, to actively oppose · 1×στρατολογέω stratologéō · G4758 · to enlist soldiers, to be an army commander, to be an army officer · 1×στρατόπεδον stratópedon · G4760 · army · 1×στρατοπεδάρχης stratopedárchēs · G4759 · a ruler of an army, i.e, a Prætorian præfect · 0×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon στρατιωτου, ὁ (from στράτιος ((cf. στρατεύω)), like ἡλιώτης, κλοιωτης, ἠπειρώτης), from…

στρατιωτου, ὁ (from στράτιος ((cf. στρατεύω)), like ἡλιώτης, κλοιωτης, ἠπειρώτης), from Herodotus down, a (common) soldier: Mt 8:9; Mk 15:16; Lk 23:36; Jn 19:2; Acts 10:7; Acts 12:4, etc.; with the addition of Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, metaphorically, a champion of the cause of Christ, 2 Tim 2:3.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Soldiers, Officers26 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