noun · masculine
saddoukaios
Strong’sG4523
a Sadducee
stem saddoukai-14 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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
Σαδδουκαῖος refers to a Sadducee, a member of a particular group or party among the Israelites, named after a Hebrew personal name 1234. Strong's describes this group as followers of a certain heretical Israelite 2. The word is used a number of times across the Gospels and Acts 13.
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 G4523 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsad-doo-kah'-yos
a Sadducæan (i.e. Tsadokian), or follower of a certain heretical Israelite
Fromprobably from G4524;
King JamesSadducee.
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
(Heb. צָדוֹק,
a Sadducee (cf. Swete, Mk., 277):
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | saddoukaios | saddoukaiois5×Σαδδουκαῖοι |
| object accusative | saddoukaion | saddoukaioin1×Σαδδουκαίους |
| direct address vocative | saddoukaior | saddoukaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | saddoukaiou | saddoukaioiu8×Σαδδουκαίων |
| to, for dative | saddoukaio | saddoukaioi |
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
saddoukaio 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.
14 occurrences, every one of them listed
saddoukaiois“Sadducees”subjectnominative plural5×
Matthew 16:1Kai prosercharantois tois Farisaiois kai Saddoukaiois peirazarōntois eperōtala auton sēmem ek tou …Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking …
Matthew 22:23En ekeina ta hēmera proserchala auto Saddoukaiois, legarōntois mē arō anastasian, kai eperōtala …That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection …
Mark 12:18Kai ercholō Saddoukaiois pros auton, hotinois legalō anastasian mē …Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection …
Acts 4:1… tos stratēgos teu hiereu kai tois Saddoukaiois,… of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
Acts 23:8Saddoukaiois men gar legalō mē arō anastasian …For the Sadducees say that there is neither a …
saddoukaioin“Sadducees”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 22:34… de Farisaiois akouarantois hoti fimata toin Saddoukaioin sunagila epi tem autem.… heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.
saddoukaioiu“Sadducees”of, belonging togenitive plural8×
Matthew 3:7Horarantos de polloin toiu Farisaioiu kai Saddoukaioiu erchorōntoin epi tem baptismem autou legata …… saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism …
Matthew 16:6… apo tau zumau toiu Farisaioiu kai Saddoukaioiu.… the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:11… apo tau zumau toiu Farisaioiu kai Saddoukaioiu.… the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:12… apo tau didachau toiu Farisaioiu kai Saddoukaioiu.… the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Luke 20:27Prosercharantois de tinois toiu Saddoukaioiu, tois antilegarōntois anastasian mē arō, eperōtala …Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection …
Acts 5:17… sun auto, tas arōntas hairesias toiu Saddoukaioiu, pimplēila zēlou… belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went …
Acts 23:6… Paulos hoti tem henem merem atō Saddoukaioiu tem de heterem Farisaioiu krazate en …… knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out …
Acts 23:7… lalarōntou geneta stasias toiu Farisaioiu kai Saddoukaioiu, kai schizita tem plēthem.… broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.