noun · neuter
dendrem
Strong’sG1186
a tree
stem dendr-25 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 6 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
A tree 1234. The word is used for ordinary trees, such as those bearing good or bad fruit, and for a seed or plant that grows up into something tree-like 1. Strong's notes that it probably comes from a word meaning an oak 2. Ancient usage also applied the term to tall plants generally, not only to trees in the strict sense 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
δένδρον, -ου, τό
[in LXX for עֵץ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1186 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidden'-dron
a tree
Fromprobably from δρύς (an oak);
King Jamestree.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
δένδρον, and δένδρος, τό (late δένδρος, ὁ, Refs 8th c.BC+, also Ionic dialect, Refs 5th c.BC+, and Doric dialect, Refs 3rd c.BC+; Aeolic dialect δένδριον Refs 3rd c.BC+; later Epic dialect δένδρειον, τό, Refs 5th c.BC+; genitive δένδρεος Refs 4th c.BC+; dative δένδρει, Ionic dialect -εϊRefs 5th c.BC+ (and so usually in Attic dialect Prose. as Refs 5th c.BC+, regular in Attic dialect, Refs 5th c.BC+, and later Gr. (except in dative plural, Refs 2nd c.AD+:— tree: δένδρον ἐλάας an olive-tree, Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. ἄρκτου, ={ἀκτῆ}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+; δένδρα fruit- or mast-bearing trees, opposed to ὕλη, timber, Refs 5th c.BC+; δένδρα tall plants, NT+4th c.BC+; αὖον δ. stick, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | dendrem12×δένδρον | dendreim1×δένδρα |
| of, belonging to genitive | dendreu | dendreiu4×δένδρων |
| to, for dative | dendre | dendrei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dendre is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
25 occurrences, every one of them listed
dendrem“tree”subject or objectdirect singular12×
Matthew 3:10… rizan teiu dendreiu keiotō; pantem oun dendrem mē poiarōntem karpon kalon ekkoptotō kai …… root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit …
Matthew 7:17houtōs pantem dendrem agathem karpoin kaloin poiatō, tem de …Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad …
Matthew 7:17… karpoin kaloin poiatō, tem de saprem dendrem karpoin ponēroin poiatō;… bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Matthew 7:18ouk dunotō dendrem agathem karpoin ponēroin poiarō, oude dendrem …A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a …
Matthew 7:18… dendrem agathem karpoin ponēroin poiarō, oude dendrem saprem karpoin kaloin poiarō.… bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Matthew 7:19pantem dendrem mē poiarōntem karpon kalon ekkoptotō kai …Every tree that does not bear good fruit …
Matthew 12:33… sapron; ek gar tou karpou tem dendrem gnōskotō.… fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew 13:32… megoterem teiu lachaneiu atō kai genotō dendrem, hōste erchara teim peteineim tou ouranou …… of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the …
Luke 3:9… rizan teiu dendreiu keiotō; pantem oun dendrem mē poiarōntem karpon kalon ekkoptotō kai …… root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit …
Luke 6:43Ouk gar atō dendrem kalem poiarōntem karpon sapron, oude palin …No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a …
Luke 6:43… kalem poiarōntem karpon sapron, oude palin dendrem saprem poiarōntem karpon kalon.… bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
Luke 6:44hekastem gar dendrem ek tou idiou karpou gnōskotō; ouk …For each tree is known by its own fruit …
dendreim“trees”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Jude 1:12… poimanarōntois, nefelais anudrais hupo anemoiu paraferorōntais, dendreim fthinopōrineim akarpeim dis apothnēskaranteim ekriziranteim,… carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being …
dendreiu“trees”of, belonging togenitive plural4×
Matthew 3:10… tas axinas pros tan rizan teiu dendreiu keiotō; pantem oun dendrem mē poiarōntem …… ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not …
Matthew 21:8… allosois de koptale kladoin apo teiu dendreiu kai strōnnuale en ta hoda.… while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
Luke 3:9… tas axinas pros tan rizan teiu dendreiu keiotō; pantem oun dendrem mē poiarōntem …… ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not …
Revelation 8:7… gēau katakaiita, kai tem tritem teiu dendreiu katakaiita, kai pantos chortos chlōros katakaiita.… along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
dendrem5×
Matthew 12:33Ē poiavar tem dendrem kalem kai ton karpon auteu kalon, …Make a tree good and its fruit will be …
Matthew 12:33… karpon auteu kalon, ē poiavar tem dendrem saprem kai ton karpon auteu sapron; …… will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be …
Luke 13:19… heautou, kai auxanata kai geneta eis dendrem, kai teim peteineim tou ouranou kataskēnata …… garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air …
Revelation 7:1… epi tau thalassau mēte epi pantem dendrem.… land or sea or on any tree.
Revelation 9:4… gēau oude pantem chlōrem oude pantem dendrem, ei mē toin anthrōpoin hotinois ouk …… the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not …
dendreim3×
Mark 8:24… legate; Blepamō toin anthrōpoin hoti hōs dendreim horamō peripatarōntoin.… the people, but they look like trees walking around.”
Luke 21:29… Horavar tan sukan kai panteim teim dendreim;… the fig tree and all the trees.
Revelation 7:3… gēan mēte tan thalassan mēte teim dendreim, achri sfragizaneia toin douloin tou theou …… harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal …