noun · masculine
hetairos
Strong’sG2083
a companion, comrade
stem hetair-3 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἑταῖρος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ and cognate forms, also Si 11:6 37:2ff., al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2083 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhet-ah'-ee-ros
a comrade
Fromfrom ἔτης (a clansman);
King Jamesfellow, friend.
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
Epic dialect and Doric dialect also ἕγᾰρος, Refs 6th c.BC+, ὁ:— comrade, companion, in Refs 8th c.BC+ especially of the followers of a chief, comrades-in-arms, Refs 8th c.BC+; messmate, Refs; fellowslave, Refs 8th c.BC+; later, as a term of address, φίλ᾽ ἑταῖρε Refs 6th c.BC+; ὦταῖρε Scol. cited in NT+5th c.BC+ partner of my feast, Refs; πόσιος καὶ βρώσιος ἑταῖροι messmates, Refs 6th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, of things, ἐσθλὸς ἑταῖρος, of a fair wind, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 pupil, disciple, e.g. of Socrates, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, fellow-pupils, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 of political partisans Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ περὶ αὐτὸν ἑ. his club-mates, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 members of a religious guild, Refs
6 rarely of lovers, Refs 7th c.BC+
7 ἑταῖροι, οἱ, the guards, i.e. the cavalry of the Macedonian kings, Refs 4th c.BC+ see at {πεζέταιρος}, Refs 2nd c.AD+; to be distinguished from the king's immediate retinue (compare above Refs 2nd c.AD+; of the Refs 1st c.AD+
8 as adjective, associate of, τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν ἡδονῶν ἑ. Refs 5th c.BC+ your closest companions, Refs 1st c.AD+; σαργῶν γένος πέτρῃσιν ἑ. constant to the rocks, Refs 2nd c.AD+: absolutely, of animals, gregarious, Refs
II ἑταίρα, Ionic dialect ἑταίρη, Epic dialect ἑτάρη [ᾰ], ἡ, companion, Ἔρις..Ἄρεος..κασιγνήτη ἑτάρη τε Refs 8th c.BC+; Ποσειδάωνος ἑ., of a submerged city, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 courtesan, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to πόρνη (a common prostitute), Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to γαμετή, Refs 6th 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 nominative | hetairos | hetairois |
| object accusative | hetairon | hetairoin |
| direct address vocative | hetairor3×Ἑταῖρε | hetairoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hetairou | hetairoiu |
| to, for dative | hetairo | hetairoi |
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
hetairo 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hetairor“friend”direct addressvocative singular3×
Matthew 20:13tos de apokrinirantos heno autoiu legata; Hetairor, ouk adikamō sin; ouchi dēnarieu sumfōnasa …But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to …
Matthew 22:12kai legatō auto; Hetairor, pōs eiserchasa hōde mē echarōntos endumem …‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get …
Matthew 26:50tos de Iēsus legata auto; Hetairor, epi hem pareiasō. tote prosercharantois epibalala …“Friend,” Jesus replied, “do what you came …