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Lexicon :: Strong's G2447 - ios

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ἰός
Transliteration
ios (Key)
Pronunciation
ee-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from eimi (to go) or hiemi (to send)
mGNT
3x in 2 unique form(s) TR
3x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
70x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:334,368

Strong’s Definitions

ἰός iós, ee-os'; perhaps from εἶμι eîmi (to go) or ἵημι híēmi (to send); rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents):—poison, rust.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2447 in the following manner: poison (2x), rust (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2447 in the following manner: poison (2x), rust (1x).

  1. poison (of animals)

    1. poison of asps is under their lips,

    2. spoken of men given to reviling and calumniating and thereby injuring others

  2. rust

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἰός iós, ee-os'; perhaps from εἶμι eîmi (to go) or ἵημι híēmi (to send); rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents):—poison, rust.
STRONGS G2447:
ἰός, οῦ, ὁ, (on its very uncertain derivation see Kreussler in Passow, under the word; Curtius § 591; [Vanicek, p. 969]);
1. poison (of animals): ἰὸς ἀσπίδων ὑπὸ τὰ χείλη αὐτῶν, the poison of asps is under their lips, spoken of men given to reviling and calumniating and thereby injuring others, Romans 3:13 (from Psalm 139:3 (Ps. 140:4)); by the same figure, (γλῶσσα) μεστὴ ἰοῦ θανατηφόρου, James 3:8; (in Greek writings from Pindar down).
2. rust: James 5:3; (Ezekiel 24:6, 11f; Baruch 6:11, 23 [Epistle Jeremiah 1:12, 24]; Theognis, Theocritus, Plato, Theophrastus, Polybius, Lucian, others).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
139:3; 140:4
Jeremiah
12
Ezekiel
24:6; 24:11
Romans
3:13
James
3:8; 5:3

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Strong's Number G2447 matches the Greek ἰός (ios),
which occurs 70 times in 63 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:7 - But it was ordained by[fn] God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:17 - Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:3 - They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s,
and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 - In the end it bites like a serpent
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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:13 - He drove into my kidneys
the arrows of his quiver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:12 - She has wearied herself with toil;[fn] its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And the LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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