Word study

Everyone

2 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

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

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 76 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun  ·  Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196

    Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

    Genesis 21:6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

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  • אִישׁ îshmantranslated this way 10 times of its 1,399 uses · Strong’s H376Noun  ·  Translated: man 650, men 198, one 79, each 79Full study and all 1,278 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

  • πᾶς pâsall, the whole, every kind oftranslated this way 133 times of its 1,133 uses · Strong’s G3956Adjective  ·  Translated: all 462, everyone 131, every 116, everything 87

    Matthew 5:15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

    Mark 1:37 and when they found Him, they said, “Everyone is looking for You!”

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  • ἅπας hápasall, the wholetranslated this way 2 times of its 25 uses · Strong’s G537Adjective  ·  Translated: all 10, everything 5, whole 3, Everyone 2

    Luke 5:26 Everyone was taken with amazement and glorified God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

    Luke 9:15 They did so, and everyone was seated.

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  • ἕκαστος hékastoseach, every onetranslated this way 2 times of its 74 uses · Strong’s G1538Adjective  ·  Translated: each 38, each one 14, to each 4, of each 2

    1 Corinthians 14:26 What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church .

    Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

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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.