Word study
Crown
6 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: crown, crowns, crowned. 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 “crown” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- עֲטָרָה ăṭârâhcrown, wreathtranslated this way 22 times of its 23 uses · Strong’s H5850Noun · Translated: crown 18, crowns 2, like a crown 1, wearing the crown 1Full study and all 23 verses →
2 Samuel 12:30 Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
1 Chronicles 20:2 Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
- נֶזֶר nezerconsecration, crown, Naziriteshiptranslated this way 8 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s H5145Noun · Translated: crown 8, separation 8, diadem 2, consecration 2Full study and all 22 verses →
Exodus 39:30 They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
2 Samuel 1:10 So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”
- עָטַר âṭarsurroundtranslated this way 5 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H5849Verb · Translated: crowned 2, closing 1, surround 1, crown 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Psalm 8:5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
Song of Solomon 3:11 Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
- קׇדְקֹד qodqôdhead, crown of headtranslated this way 4 times of its 11 uses · Strong’s H6936Noun · Translated: head 2Full study and all 11 verses →
Deuteronomy 33:16 with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.
Job 2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
- 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 →
- כֶּתֶר kethercrowntranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H3804Noun · Translated: crown 2, crest 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Esther 1:11 to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
Esther 2:17 And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
Greek words (New Testament)
- στέφανος stéphanosa crown, garlandtranslated this way 18 times of its 18 uses · Strong’s G4735Noun · Translated: crown 15, crowns 3Full study and all 18 verses →
Matthew 27:29 And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand, knelt down before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Mark 15:17 They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.
- στεφανόω stephanóōI crown, adorntranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G4737Verb · Translated: crowned 2, receive the crown 1Full study and all 3 verses →
2 Timothy 2:5 Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.
Hebrews 2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
- διάδημα diádēmaa head-wreath, crowntranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G1238Noun · Translated: royal crowns 3Full study and all 3 verses →
Revelation 12:3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
Revelation 13:1 Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
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.
What the Bible says about crown: passages by topic →
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.