noun · masculine
theristos
Strong’sG2327
a reaper, harvester
stem therist-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
** θεριστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< θερίζω), [in LXX: Da LXX Bel32, TH Bel33*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2327 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidther-is-tace'
a harvester
Fromfrom G2325;
King Jamesreaper.
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
mower, reaper, 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 nominative | theristos | theristois1×θερισταὶ |
| object accusative | theriston | theristoin |
| direct address vocative | theristor | theristoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | theristou | theristoiu |
| to, for dative | theristo | theristoi1×θερισταῖς |
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
theristo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
theristois“reapers”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 13:39“reapers”… therismos sunteleias aiōnou atō, tois de theristois angelois alō.… devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
theristoi“reapers”to, fordative plural1×
Matthew 13:30“reapers”… en kairo tou therismou legami toi theristoi; Sullegavar prōtem teim zizanieim kai davar …… the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into …