Strong's G2398 · Greek
ἴδιος
idios · /id'-ee-os/
Definition
of uncertain affinity; pertaining to self, i.e. one's own; by implication, private or separate:--X his acquaintance, when they were alone, apart, aside, due, his (own, proper, several), home, (her, our, thine, your) own (business), private(-ly), proper, severally, their (own).
KJV: X his acquaintance, when they were alone, apart, aside, due, his (own, proper, several), home, (her, our, thine, your) own (business), private(-ly), proper, severally, their (own)
Root / derivation: of uncertain affinity
KJV usage breakdown
How the Authorized (KJV) translators rendered ἴδιος across 94 verses.
Every occurrence (KJV)
94 verses use this word, grouped by book — the translated form is highlighted.
Matthew4 verses
And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.
Matthew 22:5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Matthew 25:14For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Matthew 25:15And unto one he gave five talents to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. talents: a talent is.pounds.ten shillings, chap.18.24
Mark2 verses
Luke5 verses
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Luke 6:41And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Luke 6:44For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. grapes: Gr. a grape
Luke 10:23And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
Luke 10:34And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
John14 verses
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:41He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. the Christ: or, the Anointed
John 4:44For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
John 5:18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 7:18He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John 8:44Ye 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 truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. of his own: or, from his own will or disposition
John 10:3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
John 10:4And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
John 13:1Now 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 which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
John 15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 16:32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. his own: or, his own home
John 19:27Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
Acts14 verses
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Acts 1:19And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
Acts 1:25That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
Acts 2:6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. was: Gr. voice was made confounded: or, troubled in mind
Acts 2:8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Acts 3:12And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Acts 4:23And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Acts 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Acts 13:36For 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: after: or, after he had in his own age served the will of God
Acts 20:28Take 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 purchased with his own blood.
Acts 21:6And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
Acts 24:23And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
Acts 25:19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Acts 28:30And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
Romans5 verses
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 10:3For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 11:24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Romans 14:4Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Romans 14:5One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. fully persuaded: or, fully assured
1 Corinthians13 verses
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
1 Corinthians 4:12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1 Corinthians 7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
1 Corinthians 7:37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians 11:21For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians 12:11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 14:35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1 Corinthians 15:23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:38But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Galatians2 verses
Ephesians2 verses
Colossians1 verse
1 Thessalonians3 verses
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
1 Thessalonians 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: persecuted us: or, chased us out
1 Thessalonians 4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
1 Timothy9 verses
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. to: or, a testimony
1 Timothy 3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1 Timothy 3:5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 3:12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1 Timothy 4:2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy 5:4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. piety: or, kindness
1 Timothy 5:8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. house: or, kindred
1 Timothy 6:1Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy 6:15Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
2 Timothy2 verses
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 Jesus before the world began,
2 Timothy 4:3For 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;
Titus4 verses
But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
Titus 1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus 2:5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; answering: or, gainsaying
Hebrews4 verses
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Hebrews 7:27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:12Neither 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.
Hebrews 13:12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
1 Peter2 verses
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
1 Peter 3:5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
2 Peter6 verses
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Peter 2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
2 Peter 3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 Peter 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Strong's G2398 (idios) mean?
of uncertain affinity; pertaining to self, i.e. one's own; by implication, private or separate:--X his acquaintance, when they were alone, apart, aside, due, his (own, proper, several), home, (her, our, thine, your) own (business), private(-ly), proper, severally, their (own).
How many times does G2398 appear in the Bible?
Strong's G2398 (ἴδιος) appears in 94 verses of the King James Version, most often translated “own.”
How is idios translated in the KJV?
In the KJV, Strong's G2398 is rendered as “own” (76×), “his” (5×), “due” (3×), “home” (2×), among other words.
Where does the Greek word ἴδιος come from?
of uncertain affinity