Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
inner
Usage: ἐσώτερος, -α, -ον (compar. of ἔσω), [in LXX chiefly for פְּנִימִי and cognate forms ;] inner: Act.16:24; τὸ ἐ., Heb.6:19.† (AS)
Esoteros means “inner” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2082 — zabal (“dwell with”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2082 ἐσώτερος (esoteros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. esoteros (es-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. interior [comparative of G2080] It has 35 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include inner and within. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
esoteros (es-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. interior [comparative of G2080] KJV: inner, within Root(s): G2080
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inner
Usage: ἐσώτερος, -α, -ον (compar. of ἔσω), [in LXX chiefly for פְּנִימִי and cognate forms ;] inner: Act.16:24; τὸ ἐ., Heb.6:19.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render esoteros, 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, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G2082 (ἐσώτερος) appears 35 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.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
32 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt put the veil on the posts, and thou shalt carry in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a separation for you between the holy and the holy of holies.
And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory.
And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the prophets.
First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2082.
And thou shalt put the veil on the posts, and thou shalt carry in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a separation for you between the holy and the holy of holies.
And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory.
And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil.
And he shall kill the goat for the sin offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy seat, in front of the mercy seat.
And he came to the flocks of sheep that were by the way, and there was a cave there; and Saul went in to make preparation, and David and his men were sitting in the inner part of the cave.
were in the midst of the innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each other.
he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.
And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
And there were made the porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, even the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.
And David gave Solomon his son the plan of the temple, and its buildings, and its treasuries, and its upper chambers, and the inner storerooms, and the place of the atonement,
And there was the inner door of the house opening into the holy of holies, and he made the inner doors of the temple of gold. So all the work which Solomon wrought for the house of the Lord was finished.
And he took the heads of families, and the mighty men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they conducted the king into the house of the Lord; and he went through the inner gate into the king’s house, and they seated the king on the throne of the kingdom.
All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person cannot live: only to whomsoever the king shall stretch out his golden scepter, he shall live: and I have not been called to go in to the king, for these thirty days.
And ye procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool: but ye looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it.
And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me up by the crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshiping the sun.
And the cherubs stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
And he brought me into the inner court, and, behold, there were chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.
And there was a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.
And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.
And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures;
And there were porches opening into the inner court, and palm trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps.
And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.
And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the side pieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side.
And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,
ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, with triple porticoes fronting one another.
And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory.
And it shall come to pass when they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen robes; and they shall not put on woolen garments when they minister at the gate of the inner court.
And no priest shall drink any wine, when they go into the inner court.
And on whatsoever day they shall enter into the inner court to minister in the holy place, they shall bring a propitiation, saith the Lord God.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the atonement, and put it on the thresholds of the house, and upon the four corners of the temple, and upon the altar, and upon the thresholds of the gate of the inner court.
Thus saith the Lord God; The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; but let it be opened on the Sabbath day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the prophets.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2082, grouped by book.
Esoteros (Strong's G2082) is a Greek word most simply glossed "inner". esoteros (es-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. interior [comparative of G2080]
This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's G2082 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2082 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 inner and within. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 32 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2082, with linked reader references where each row is available.