Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
ground
Usage: ἔδαφος, -εος (-ους), τό, [in LXX for עָפָר, קַרְקע, etc. ;] bottom, pavement, ground: Act.22:7.† (AS)
Edaphos means “ground” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1475 — gummats (“pit”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1475 ἔδαφος (edaphos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. edaphos (ed'-af-os) n. 1. a basis (bottom), i.e. the soil [from the base of G1476] It has 24 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include ground. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
edaphos (ed'-af-os) n. 1. a basis (bottom), i.e. the soil [from the base of G1476] KJV: ground Root(s): G1476
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1475. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
ground
Usage: ἔδαφος, -εος (-ους), τό, [in LXX for עָפָר, קַרְקע, etc. ;] bottom, pavement, ground: Act.22:7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render edaphos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1475 (ἔδαφος) appears 23 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
13 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest having taken it shall cast it into the water.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
Assyria came out of the mountains from the north, He came with ten thousands of his army, The multitude whereof stopped the torrents, And their horsemen have covered the hills.
Not the men only, the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1475.
And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest having taken it shall cast it into the water.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
Who alone has stretched out the heavens, And walks on the sea as on firm ground.
My soul has cloven to the ground; Quicken thou me according to thy word.
And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.
who hast humbled and brought down them that dwell on high, thou shalt cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.
And thy words shall be brought down to the earth, and thy words shall sink down to the earth, and thy voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and thy voice shall be lowered to the ground.
Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done.
And the windows were latticed, giving light round about to the three stories, so as to look through: and the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and so was the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window shutters folded back in three parts for one to look through.
From the floor to the ceiling were cherubs and palm trees carved.
And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
Assyria came out of the mountains from the north, He came with ten thousands of his army, The multitude whereof stopped the torrents, And their horsemen have covered the hills.
Not the men only, the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.
Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.
And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.
Many kings have sat down upon the ground; And one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.
To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: So the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.
Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, That say, There is none other but we.
And the king spoke with them; and there were not found out of them all any like Daniel, and Hananiah, and Mishael, and Azariah: and they stood before the king.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1475, grouped by book.
Edaphos (Strong's G1475) is a Greek word most simply glossed "ground". edaphos (ed'-af-os) n. 1. a basis (bottom), i.e. the soil [from the base of G1476]
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's G1475 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1475 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ground. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 13 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1475, with linked reader references where each row is available.