Strong G2462ἵππος

horse

Transliteration: hippos
Pronunciation: hip'-pos
Morphology: Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Of uncertain affinity; a horse: - horse.

Detailed definition

ἵππος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for סוּס, sometimes for פָּרָשׁ, רֶכֶב;]
a horse: Jas.3:3, Rev.6:2 ff. Rev.9:7 ff. Rev.14:20 18:13 19:11 ff,†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2462 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

horse15

First verses

James 3:3
Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Revelation 6:2
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation 6:4
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Revelation 6:5
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Revelation 6:8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation 9:7
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
Revelation 9:9
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Revelation 9:17
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Revelation 14:20
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 18:13
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Revelation 19:11
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Revelation 19:14
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Revelation 19:18
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Revelation 19:19
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Revelation 19:21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

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ἵππος, ὁ,
horse, ἡ, mare, most frequently feminine in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.269; ἵπποι θήλειαι 11.680, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.635; ἄρσενες ἵπποι 13.81, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.86, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 288b: _plural_, ἵπποι)] team of chariot-horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.370, +others: frequently in dual, 5.237, 8.41, +others)]: hence, of the chariot itself, ἀφ᾽ ἵπποιιν, ἀφ᾽ ἵππων, from the chariot, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.13, 19, +others; καθ᾽ ἵππων ἆλτο, ἐξ ἵππων βῆσε, [prev. work] 111, 163)]; ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος intending to mount his chariot, [Refs ([prev. work] 46)]; opposed to πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.267, compare 9.49; ἵπποι τε καὶ ἀνέρες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.554; λαός τε καὶ ἵπποι 18.153)]; of riders, νῶθ᾽ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 286)]; frequently of race-horses, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.4; ἀελλόποδες 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 7; ἀθληταί 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.63: _metaphorically_, ἁλὸς ἵ)]., of ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.708, compare 2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 17.)]
2 the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Pegasus”, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.12, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 27, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 12.11.)]
3 title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.16.)]
4 perhaps an instrument of torture, Latin eculeus, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 20 (_plural_).)]
II as Collective Noun, ἵππος, ἡ, horse, cavalry, ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.64, etc.: always in _sing._, even with numerals, ἵ. χιλίη)] a thousand horse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.41; μυρίη [prev. passage]; μυρία, τρισμυρία, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 302, 315)]; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.62; ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χιλίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.2.)]
III a sea-fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Antimachus Colophonius Elegiacus et Epicus et 2nd c.AD: Numenius Apamensis Platonicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.304e)]; but ὁ ἵ. ὁ ποτάμιος the hippopotamus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.71, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 502a9; ὁ ἵ. τοῦ Νείλου 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 4.2.)]
IV lewd woman, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.11.)]
IV.b pudenda muliebria et virilia, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
V a complaint of the eyes, such that they are always winking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.611, +others (also in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus, _accusative_ to [2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus]19.436).)]
VI title of ministrants ('chuckersout') in certain religious ceremonies, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“IG” 22.1368.144 (Athens, 2nd c.AD), 3.1280a.)]
VII in compounds, to express anything large or coarse, as in our horse-chestnut, horse-laugh, see at {ἱππό-κρημνος}, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία, and compare βου-. (From ἴκϝος, see at {ἴκκος}; cf. Sanskrit aśvas, Latin equus: the ἴ- (in place of e-) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 2.3.2)] was confined to Attic; compare Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος.)