Word study
Correspond
7 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: corresponding, corresponded, correspond, corresponds. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “correspond” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- עַל alheighttranslated this way 3 times of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition · Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216Full study and all 3,996 verses →
- יְרִיעָה yerîâhcurtaintranslated this way 2 times of its 46 uses · Strong’s H3407Noun · Translated: curtains 23, curtain 14, corresponding curtain 2, tent 2Full study and all 32 verses →
Exodus 26:10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Exodus 36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
- אֵת êthmark of the accusativetranslated this way 1 time of its 1,485 uses · Strong’s H853Direct object marker · Translated: and 348, them 229, you 199, him 146Full study and all 1,311 verses →
- פֶּתַח pethachopening, doorway, entrancetranslated this way 1 time of its 157 uses · Strong’s H6607Noun · Translated: entrance 107, door 14, doorway 13, doors 5Full study and all 150 verses →
Ezekiel 42:12 And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
- שֵׁם shêmnametranslated this way 1 time of its 769 uses · Strong’s H8034Noun · Translated: name 553, names 65, named 61, him 20Full study and all 703 verses →
Exodus 28:21 The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
- מִסְפָּר mispârnumber, taletranslated this way 1 time of its 113 uses · Strong’s H4557Noun · Translated: number 35, according to the number 13, counting 13, few 9Full study and all 111 verses →
1 Samuel 6:18 The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers — the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
- עֻמָּה ummâhjuxtapositiontranslated this way 1 time of its 31 uses · Strong’s H5980Preposition-l · Translated: close 3, as 3, beside 3, near 2Full study and all 26 verses →
Ezekiel 40:18 which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
Greek words (New Testament)
- εἰμί eimíI am, existtranslated this way 1 time of its 2,236 uses · Strong’s G1510Verb · Translated: is 523, are 214, was 183, am 83Full study and all 1,922 verses →
- συστοιχέω systoichéōI correspond totranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G4960Verb · Translated: corresponds 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Galatians 4:25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.