ἴδιος idios

Greek word for “one's own/private” · Strong’s G2398 · used 114 times in 108 verses

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Meaning

ἴδιος, -α, -ον (in Attic usually -ος, -ον);

How it is translated

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

• his own 36
• their own 29
• own 21
• private 8
• your own 5
• its own 4
• her own 3
• privately 2
• our own 2
• our own things 1
• private friends 1
• individually 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 7 (4), John 10 (3), Acts 1 (3), 1 Timothy 3 (3), 2 Peter 3 (3), Matthew 14 (2), Matthew 17 (2), Matthew 25 (2), Mark 6 (2), Mark 9 (2)

Forms

• ἰδίαν 24
• ἴδιον 18
• ἰδίᾳ 12
• ἰδίου 11
• ἰδίοις 10
• ἴδια 9
• ἰδίῳ 7
• ἰδίων 7
• ἰδίας 6
• ἰδίους 5

Words used with it

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

• κατά kata “according to” 26
• ἕκαστος hekastos “each” 15
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 9
• ἑαυτοῦ heautou “themself” 10
• γυνή gunē “woman” 8
• ὑποτάσσω hupotassō “to subject” 5
• καιρός kairos “time/right time” 6
• οἶκος oikos “house” 6
• παραλαμβάνω paralambanō “to take” 5
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 7
• ὄρος oros “mountain” 5
• μέν men “on the other hand” 6

Key verses

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

• 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 13:1 — Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own…
• Acts 13:36 — For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
• Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath…
• Romans 8:32 — He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• Romans 10:3 — For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of…
• Galatians 6:9 — And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Ephesians 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• 2 Timothy 1:9 — Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ…
• 2 Timothy 4:3 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• Hebrews 9:12 — Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
• 2 Peter 1:3 — According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and…

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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.