Strong G2783κῆρυξ
preacher
- Transliteration
- kērux
- Pronunciation
- kay'-roox
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From G2784; a herald that is of divine truth (especially of the gospel): - preacher.
Detailed definition
κῆρυξ
(κήρ-, T), -υκος, ὁ [in LXX: Dan LXX TH Dan.3:4 (כָּרוֹז), Gen.41:43, Sir.20:15, 4Ma.6:4 *;]
a herald: 1Ti.2:7, 2Ti.1:11, 2Pe.2:5.†
(AS)
(κήρ-, T), -υκος, ὁ [in LXX: Dan LXX TH Dan.3:4 (כָּרוֹז), Gen.41:43, Sir.20:15, 4Ma.6:4 *;]
a herald: 1Ti.2:7, 2Ti.1:11, 2Pe.2:5.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2783 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- preacher3
First verses
- 1 Timothy 2:7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
- 2 Timothy 1:11Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
- 2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
κῆρυξ, ῡκος, ὁ,
Aeolic dialect κᾶρυξ [ᾱ] [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20a. 2, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.1)]:—but κήρῡκος, ου, ὁ, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 775.26)]: (κηρύσσω):— herald, pursuivant: generally, public messenger, envoy, κ. λιγύφθογγοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.50, +others; κηρύκων, οἳ δημιοεργοὶ ἔασιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.135; κ. Διῒφίλοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.517; κ., Διὸς ἄγγελοι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν 1.334)]; θεῶν κ., of Hermes, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 80, compare “Th.” 939, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 515, “Ch.” 124: distinguished from πρέσβεις)], as being messengers between nations at war, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 727, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 941a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.4: used interchangeably with ἀπόστολος, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.21)]: as proper name of a family at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.53, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.116, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.38.3, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.103; functioning as μάγειροι at festivals, Clidem. 3, 17; Κηρυκίδαι 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)]
b as feminine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.1, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 4.11.)]
2 crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 42f; ὁ κ. ἀνεῖπεν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36, etc.)]; ὁ τῶν μυστῶν κ., at Eleusis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.20, compare “SIG” 845 (Eleusis, 3rd c.AD), 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.33.4.)]
3 auctioneer, ὑπὸ κήρυκος πωλεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 97; ἀπέδοτο πάντα τὰ ἔργα ὑπὸ κήρυκα “IPE” 12.32 B 35 (Olbia, 3rd c.BC),compare “PHib.” 1.29.21 (3rd c.BC))]; ἀποδίδοσθαι ὑπὸ κήρυκι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.81 V. (variant{ὑπὸ κήρυκα} Ptol.Asc. p.399 H.).)]
4 generally, messenger, herald, θεοὶ κήρυκες ἀγγέλλουσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1511, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 347)]; of the cock, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 30)]; of writing, [Refs ([prev. author] “Th.” 780 (_anapaest meter_); κ. καὶ τάφος εἰμὶ βροτοῦ “IG” 14.1618)]; of Homer, ἡρώων κάρυκ᾽ ἀρετᾶς [NT ([prev. work]1188: _metaphorically_, κ. καὶ ἀπόστολος NT.1Tim.2.7, +others)]
II trumpet-shell, e.g. Triton nodiferum, and smaller species, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 528a10, +others, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.48, Diocl.fragment 133, 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.349c, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.670, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.7, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 3.7)]. [ῡ except accusative plural κήρῠκας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Antimachus Colophonius Elegiacus et Epicus 19 (assuming variant), compare κηρῠκιον “Anthologia Graeca” 11.124 (1st c.AD: Nicarchus Epigrammaticus): but accented κῆρυξ, Hdn.Gr. 1.44)], etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit kārús 'poet', kīrtis 'fame'.)
Aeolic dialect κᾶρυξ [ᾱ] [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20a. 2, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.1)]:—but κήρῡκος, ου, ὁ, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 775.26)]: (κηρύσσω):— herald, pursuivant: generally, public messenger, envoy, κ. λιγύφθογγοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.50, +others; κηρύκων, οἳ δημιοεργοὶ ἔασιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.135; κ. Διῒφίλοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.517; κ., Διὸς ἄγγελοι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν 1.334)]; θεῶν κ., of Hermes, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 80, compare “Th.” 939, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 515, “Ch.” 124: distinguished from πρέσβεις)], as being messengers between nations at war, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 727, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 941a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.4: used interchangeably with ἀπόστολος, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.21)]: as proper name of a family at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.53, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.116, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.38.3, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.103; functioning as μάγειροι at festivals, Clidem. 3, 17; Κηρυκίδαι 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)]
b as feminine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.1, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 4.11.)]
2 crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 42f; ὁ κ. ἀνεῖπεν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36, etc.)]; ὁ τῶν μυστῶν κ., at Eleusis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.20, compare “SIG” 845 (Eleusis, 3rd c.AD), 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.33.4.)]
3 auctioneer, ὑπὸ κήρυκος πωλεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 97; ἀπέδοτο πάντα τὰ ἔργα ὑπὸ κήρυκα “IPE” 12.32 B 35 (Olbia, 3rd c.BC),compare “PHib.” 1.29.21 (3rd c.BC))]; ἀποδίδοσθαι ὑπὸ κήρυκι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.81 V. (variant{ὑπὸ κήρυκα} Ptol.Asc. p.399 H.).)]
4 generally, messenger, herald, θεοὶ κήρυκες ἀγγέλλουσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1511, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 347)]; of the cock, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 30)]; of writing, [Refs ([prev. author] “Th.” 780 (_anapaest meter_); κ. καὶ τάφος εἰμὶ βροτοῦ “IG” 14.1618)]; of Homer, ἡρώων κάρυκ᾽ ἀρετᾶς [NT ([prev. work]1188: _metaphorically_, κ. καὶ ἀπόστολος NT.1Tim.2.7, +others)]
II trumpet-shell, e.g. Triton nodiferum, and smaller species, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 528a10, +others, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.48, Diocl.fragment 133, 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.349c, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.670, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.7, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 3.7)]. [ῡ except accusative plural κήρῠκας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Antimachus Colophonius Elegiacus et Epicus 19 (assuming variant), compare κηρῠκιον “Anthologia Graeca” 11.124 (1st c.AD: Nicarchus Epigrammaticus): but accented κῆρυξ, Hdn.Gr. 1.44)], etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit kārús 'poet', kīrtis 'fame'.)