ἀλήθεια alētheia

Greek word for “truth” · Strong’s G225 · used 109 times in 98 verses

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Meaning

ἀλήθεια, -ας, ἡ; (ἀληθής);

How it is translated

Glosses given for alētheia in context, with how often each is used:

• truth 106
• truth — 2
• truth? 1

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

John 8 (5), 3 John 1 (5), 2 John 1 (4), Romans 2 (3), Ephesians 4 (3), 2 Thessalonians 2 (3), 2 Timothy 2 (3), Mark 12 (2), John 1 (2), John 4 (2)

Forms

• ἀληθείας 43
• ἀληθείᾳ 30
• ἀλήθειαν 21
• ἀλήθεια 13
• ἀλήθειά 1
• Ἀλήθειαν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with alētheia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πνεῦμα pneuma “spirit/breath” 10
• οἶδα oida “to know” 9
• ἐπίγνωσις epignōsis “knowledge” 5
• διδάσκαλος didaskalos “teacher” 6
• περί peri “about” 9
• ἀδικία adikia “unrighteousness” 5
• λόγος logos “word” 9
• μαρτυρέω martureō “to testify” 6
• ἀκούω akouō “to hear” 9
• ψεῦδος pseudos “lie” 4
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 7
• ψεύδομαι pseudomai “to lie” 4

Key verses

The verses using alētheia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
• John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no…
• John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• Acts 4:27 — For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were…
• 2 Thessalonians 2:10 — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:13 — But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through…
• 1 Timothy 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and…
• 2 Timothy 2:25 — In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
• James 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• 1 Peter 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart…
• 1 John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.