Word study

Due

13 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “due”. 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 “due” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

Greek words (New Testament)

  • δεῖ deîit is necessary, inevitabletranslated this way 1 time of its 98 uses · Strong’s G1163Verb  ·  Translated: must 51, ought 11, should 4, you should have 3

    Romans 1:27 Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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  • κομίζω komízōI bring, receive, recovertranslated this way 1 time of its 10 uses · Strong’s G2865Verb  ·  Translated: receive 4

    2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

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  • ἴδιος ídiosone's own, private, personaltranslated this way 1 time of its 95 uses · Strong’s G2398Adjective  ·  Translated: own 53, privately 10, his own 9, themselves 3

    Galatians 6:9 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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  • διά diáthrough, on account oftranslated this way 1 time of its 607 uses · Strong’s G1223Preposition  ·  Translated: through 201, by 83, because of 56, for 37Full study and all 553 verses →
How to study a word well
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. 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.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. 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.