noun · feminine
trichas
Strong’sG2359
a hair
stem trich-15 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books6 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
Hair — the hair growing from a person's head, or the hair/wool/bristles covering an animal's body 1234. It is used of human hair on the head 1, and also of animal hair, such as wool or bristles 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 G2359 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthreeks
of uncertain derivation; hair
Fromgenitive case τριχός, etc.;
King Jameshair.
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
genitive τρῐχός, dative plural θριξί (τρίχεσιν Refs 1st c.AD+: - hair, Refs 8th c.BC+ only in plural, ὀρθαὶ τρίχες ἔσταν ἐνὶ.. μέλεσσι Refs 8th c.BC+; mostly, hair of the head,Refs 8th c.BC+; sheep's wool, Refs 8th c.BC+; pig's bristles, Refs 8th c.BC+; τρίχες ἄκραι οὐραῖαι, of a horse's tail, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀνάστασις τῶν τριχῶν, of a lark's crest, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II later in singular collectively, Refs 5th c.BC+; τριχὸς πλόκαμος, βόστρυχος, LXX+4th c.BC+; Ἐπαφρόδιτον.. τὴν παιδικὴν τρίχα Ὑγίᾳ (i.e. ἀνέθηκεν) Refs 1st c.AD+; of a horse's mane, Refs 5th c.BC+; of dogs, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 a single hair, οὐδὲ τρίχ[α] Refs 7th c.BC+ only a hair's breadth wanting, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄξιον τριχός, i.e. good for nothing, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ τριχὸς κρέμασθαι to hang by a hair, Refs 2nd c.AD+; εἰς ἱερὴν τρίχα ἐλθεῖν, i.e. to come to life's end, variant in Refs; μόνον οὐχὶ τῶν τ., φασί, λαμβάνεται 'saute aux yeux', Refs 2nd c.AD+
III in Medicine texts, vein on the right lobe of the liver, Refs 5th 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 | trichas2×θρὶξ | trichais3×τρίχες |
| object accusative | trichan1×τρίχα | trichain3×τρίχας |
| direct address vocative | trichar | trichair |
| of, belonging to genitive | trichau | trichaiu2×τριχῶν |
| to, for dative | tricha | trichai4×θριξὶν |
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
tricha 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.
15 occurrences, every one of them listed
trichas“hair”subjectnominative singular2×
Luke 21:18kai trichas ek tau kefalau vu ouk mē …Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
Acts 27:34… humeterau sōtērēau huparchatō; oudenou gar vu trichas apo tau kefalau apoleti.… eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
trichan“hair”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 5:36… su omnuaseia, hoti ouk dunosō henan trichan leukan poiara ē melanan.… for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
trichais“hairs”subjectnominative plural3×
Matthew 10:30vu de kai tais trichais tau kefalau pantais arithmorēntais alō.And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Luke 12:7alla kai tais trichais tau kefalau vu pantais arithmolē; mē …And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered …
Revelation 1:14tas de kefalas autou kai tais trichais leukais hōs eriem leukem, hōs chiōnas, …The hair of His head was white like …
trichain“hair”objectaccusative plural3×
Mark 1:6kai ate tos Iōannos enduorēntos trichain kamēlau kai zōnan dermatinan peri tan …John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his …
Revelation 9:8kai echale trichain hōs trichain gunaikaiu, kai tois odontois …They had hair like that of women, and teeth …
Revelation 9:8“hair”kai echale trichain hōs trichain gunaikaiu, kai tois odontois autaiu hōs …They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of …
trichaiu“hair”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 3:4… Iōannos echate tem endumem autou apo trichaiu kamēlau kai zōnan dermatinan peri tan …John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his …
1 Peter 3:3haiu atōr ouk tos exōthen emplokau trichaiu kai perithesiau chrusieiu ē endusiau himatieiu …… from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
trichai“hair”to, fordative plural4×
Luke 7:38… brecharō toin podoin autou kai tai trichai tau kefalau autau ekmassate, kai katafilate …… tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and …
Luke 7:44… brechata mu toin podoin kai tai trichai autau ekmassata.… tears and wiped them with her hair.
John 11:2… kai ekmassarantas toin podoin autou tai trichai autau, hau tos adelfos Lazaros asthenate.… and wipe His feet with her hair.)
John 12:3… podoin tou Iēsu kai ekmassata tai trichai autau toin podoin autou; tas de …… feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with …