Word study
Example
1 Hebrew and 5 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: example, examples. 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 “example” or one of its forms.
Compare the Greek words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- דֶּרֶךְ derekway, road, distance, journey, mannertranslated this way 1 time of its 653 uses · Strong’s H1870Noun · Translated: way 204, ways 166, road 54, journey 35Full study and all 595 verses →
1 Kings 16:19 because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
Greek words (New Testament)
- τύπος týposa figure, model, typetranslated this way 7 times of its 14 uses · Strong’s G5179Noun · Translated: pattern 4, example 4, examples 3, marks 1Full study and all 14 verses →
1 Corinthians 10:6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
1 Thessalonians 1:7 As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
- ὑπόδειγμα hypódeigmaa figure, copy, exampletranslated this way 3 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s G5262Noun · Translated: example 3, pattern 1, copy 1, copies 1Full study and all 6 verses →
John 13:15 I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
James 5:10 Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
- ὑποτύπωσις hypotýpōsisa pattern, exampletranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G5296Noun · Translated: example 1, pattern 1Full study and all 2 verses →
1 Timothy 1:16 But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners , Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
- ὑπογραμμός hypogrammósa writing-copy, an exampletranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G5261Noun · Translated: example 1Full study and its 1 verse →
1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
- δεῖγμα deîgmaan example, typetranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G1164Noun · Translated: example 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Jude 1:7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
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 example: 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.