Word study

Render

7 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: render, rendered, renders, rendering. 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.

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How often each original word is translated “render” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • שׁוּב shûbturn back, returntranslated this way 3 times of its 1,007 uses · Strong’s H7725Verb  ·  Translated: return 218, returned 105, restore 62, turn 56

    Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

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  • שָׁלַם shâlambe complete, soundtranslated this way 2 times of its 109 uses · Strong’s H7999Verb  ·  Translated: repay 20, fulfill 14, make restitution 7, made peace 6

    Psalm 56:12 Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

    Joel 3:4 Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

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  • יָכַח yâkachdecide, adjudge, provetranslated this way 1 time of its 56 uses · Strong’s H3198Verb  ·  Translated: rebuke 13, rebukes 3, appointed 2, judge 2

    Genesis 31:42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

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  • מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭjudgmenttranslated this way 1 time of its 406 uses · Strong’s H4941Noun  ·  Translated: justice 111, ordinances 73, judgments 40, judgment 40

    2 Chronicles 19:6 Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment.

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  • עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 1 time of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb  ·  Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112Full study and all 2,206 verses →
  • אֶמֶת emethfirmness, faithfulness, truthtranslated this way 1 time of its 125 uses · Strong’s H571Noun  ·  Translated: truth 37, faithfulness 35, true 20, faithfully 10

    Zechariah 8:16 These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

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  • שָׁפַט shâphaṭjudge, governtranslated this way 1 time of its 199 uses · Strong’s H8199Verb  ·  Translated: judge 81, judges 35, judged 15, vindicate 7

    Psalm 82:1 A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • καταργέω katargéōI bring to naught, sever, abolishtranslated this way 1 time of its 29 uses · Strong’s G2673Verb  ·  Translated: nullify 4, released 2, destroy 2, destroyed 2

    Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

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  • καθίστημι kathístēmiI set, establish, appoint, conducttranslated this way 1 time of its 20 uses · Strong’s G2525Verb  ·  Translated: appointed 4, made 4, put him in charge 2, put 2

    James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

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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.