noun · masculine
hippos
Strong’sG2462
a horse
stem hipp-17 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books5 of 10 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
Horse 1234 — the ordinary animal, as ridden or used to pull a chariot 3. This is the only sense in which the word is used in the Bible 1.
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
Strong’s G2462 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhip'-pos
a horse
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jameshorse.
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
horse, ἡ, mare, most frequently feminine in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι Refs 8th c.BC+ team of chariot-horses, Refs 8th c.BC+: hence, of the chariot itself, ἀφ᾽ ἵπποιιν, ἀφ᾽ ἵππων, from the chariot, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος intending to mount his chariot, Refs; opposed to πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων Refs 8th c.BC+; of riders, νῶθ᾽ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον Refs 8th c.BC+; frequently of race-horses, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες Refs 5th c.BC+., of ships, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 the constellation Refs 4th c.BC+
3 title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, Refs 3rd c.AD+
4 perhaps an instrument of torture, Latin eculeus, Refs 1st c.AD+
II as Collective Noun, ἵππος, ἡ, horse, cavalry, ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ. Refs 5th c.BC+ a thousand horse, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III a sea-fish, Refs 5th c.BC+; but ὁ ἵ. ὁ ποτάμιος the hippopotamus, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV lewd woman, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV.b pudenda muliebria et virilia, Refs 5th c.AD+
V a complaint of the eyes, such that they are always winking, Refs 5th c.BC+
VI title of ministrants ('chuckersout') in certain religious ceremonies, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VII in compounds, to express anything large or coarse, as in our horse-chestnut, horse-laugh, see at {ἱππό-κρημνος}, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία, and compare βου-. (From ἴκϝος, see at {ἴκκος}; cf. Sanskrit aśvas, Latin equus: the ἴ- (in place of e-) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter accusative to Refs 2nd c.AD+ was confined to Attic; compare Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος.)
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 | hippos5×ἵππος | hippois |
| object accusative | hippon | hippoin1×ἵππους |
| direct address vocative | hippor | hippoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hippou2×ἵππου | hippoiu7×ἵππων |
| to, for dative | hippo | hippoi2×ἵπποις |
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
hippo 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.
17 occurrences, every one of them listed
hippos“horse”subjectnominative singular5×
Revelation 6:2kai horama, kai idou hippos leukos, kai tos kathorōntos epi auton …… I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow …
Revelation 6:4kai exerchata allosos hippos purros, kai to kathorōnto epi auton …Then another horse went forth. It was bright red …
Revelation 6:5… legarōnteu; Erchosōr. kai horama, kai idou hippos melanos, kai tos kathorōntos epi auton …… I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his …
Revelation 6:8kai horama, kai idou hippos chlōros, kai tos kathorōntos epanō autou …… looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and …
Revelation 19:11… horama ton ouranon anoigorēnton, kai idou hippos leukos, kai tos kathorōntos epi auton …… there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful …
hippou“horse”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Revelation 19:19… polemon meta tou kathorōntou epi tou hippou kai meta teu strateumeu autou.… against the One seated on the horse, and against His army.
Revelation 19:21… ta romfaia tou kathorōntou epi tou hippou ta exercharanta ek teu stomeu autou, …… of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves …
hippoin“horses”objectaccusative plural1×
Revelation 9:17kai houtōs horama toin hippoin en ta horasia kai toin kathorōntoin …Now the horses and riders in my vision looked …
hippoiu“horses”of, belonging togenitive plural7×
James 3:3ei de toiu hippoiu toin chalinoin eis teim stomeim balanō …… put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we …
Revelation 9:9… taiu pterugaiu autaiu hōs fōnas harmeiu hippoiu polloiu trecharōntoiu eis polemon;… was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
Revelation 9:17… kai theiōdoin; kai tais kefalais toiu hippoiu hōs kefalais leontoiu, kai ek teiu …… and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions …
Revelation 9:19tas gar exousias toiu hippoiu en te stome autoiu atō kai …For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in …
Revelation 14:20… tau lēnau achri toiu chalinoiu toiu hippoiu apo stadioiu chilioi hexakosioi.… high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
Revelation 18:13… siton kai ktēneim kai probateim, kai hippoiu kai redaiu kai sōmeiu, kai psuchain …… flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls …
Revelation 19:18… chiliarchoiu kai sarkain ischuroiu kai sarkain hippoiu kai toiu kathorōntoiu epi autoiu, kai …… and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and …
hippoi“horses”to, fordative plural2×
Revelation 9:7Kai teim homoiōmeim taiu akridaiu homoieim hippoi hetoimazorēntoi eis polemon, kai epi tain …And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like …
Revelation 19:14… en to ourano akolouthate auto epi hippoi leukoi, enduorēntois bussinem leukem katharem.… and pure, follow Him on white horses.