noun · masculine
kērukos
Strong’sG2783
a herald, preacher
stem kēruk-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
κῆρυξ
(κήρ-, T), -υκος, ὁ, [in LXX: Da LXX TH 3:4 (כָּרוֹז), Ge 41:43, Si 20:15, IV Mac 6:4*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2783 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkay'-roox
a herald, i.e. of divine truth (especially of the gospel)
Fromfrom G2784;
King Jamespreacher.
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
Aeolic dialect κᾶρυξ [ᾱ] Refs 7th c.BC+:—but κήρῡκος, ου, ὁ, Refs: (κηρύσσω):— herald, pursuivant: generally, public messenger, envoy, κ. λιγύφθογγοι Refs 8th c.BC+; θεῶν κ., of Hermes, Refs 8th c.BC+, as being messengers between nations at war, Refs 5th c.BC+: as proper name of a family at Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+
b as feminine, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ τῶν μυστῶν κ., at Eleusis, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 auctioneer, ὑπὸ κήρυκος πωλεῖν Refs 4th c.BC+; ἀποδίδοσθαι ὑπὸ κήρυκι Refs 1st c.AD+
4 generally, messenger, herald, θεοὶ κήρυκες ἀγγέλλουσι Refs 5th c.BC+; of the cock, Refs 5th c.BC+; of writing, Refs; of Homer, ἡρώων κάρυκ᾽ ἀρετᾶς NT
II trumpet-shell, e.g. Triton nodiferum, and smaller species, Refs 5th c.BC+. [ῡ except accusative plural κήρῠκας Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit kārús 'poet', kīrtis 'fame'.)
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 | kērukos2×κῆρυξ | kērukois |
| object accusative | kērukon1×κήρυκα | kērukoin |
| direct address vocative | kērukor | kērukoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kērukou | kērukoiu |
| to, for dative | kēruko | kērukoi |
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
kēruko 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
kērukos“herald”subjectnominative singular2×
1 Timothy 2:7“herald”eis hem tithima mis kērukos kai apostolos alētheian legamō, ouk pseudomō …For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
2 Timothy 1:11eis hem tithima mis kērukos kai apostolos kai didaskalos.… which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
kērukon“preacher”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 2:5… ouk feideta, alla ogdoon Nōe dikaiosunau kērukon fulassata, kataklusmon kosmo aseboiu epagarantos,… ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;