στρουθίον
strouthíon · G4765 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Thing
- SparrowBirds35 verses
Meanings
-
sparrow
Small bird; speckled brown in color; genus Passer; roosts and nests in groups; eats grass seeds and grain; associated with the poor
ExamplesMatthew 10:29 “Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
Matthew 10:31 “So do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.
Luke 12:6 “Are five sparrows not sold for two assaria? And yet not one of them has gone unnoticed in the sight of God.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- πολύςmany 2
- δύοtwo 1
- πέντεfive 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- πωλέωto sell 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.
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.
In the other Testament 1 word
- צִפּוֹר tsippôwr · H6833 · sparrow, bird, fowl
- Standard Hebrew equivalent for small birds/sparrows, used in contexts paralleling the Greek στρουθίον (e.g., Ps 84:3 LXX uses στρουθίον for Hebrew צִפּוֹר; Matt 10:29-31 and Luke 12:6-7 where Jesus speaks of sparrows would naturally translate to this Hebrew term).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sparrow4.46
- The noun names the small, common bird used as an example of something of little market value yet still under God's care. Jesus asks, “Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father” (Matthew 10:29).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon στρουθίου, τό (diminutive of στρουθός), a little bird, especially of the sparrow sort, a…
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
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.