Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
servant
Usage: θεράπων, -οντος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for עֶבֶד ;] an attendant, servant: Heb.3:5 (LXX) SYN.: see: διάκονος (AS)
Therapon means “servant” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2324 — chava (“shew”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2324 θεράπων (therapon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. therapon (ther-ap'-own) n. 1. a menial attendant (as if cherishing) [apparently a participle from an otherwise obsolete derivative of the base of G2330] It has 60 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include servant. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
therapon (ther-ap'-own) n. 1. a menial attendant (as if cherishing) [apparently a participle from an otherwise obsolete derivative of the base of G2330] KJV: servant Root(s): G2330 See also: G2323
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servant
Usage: θεράπων, -οντος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for עֶבֶד ;] an attendant, servant: Heb.3:5 (LXX) SYN.: see: διάκονος (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render therapon, 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 G2324 (θεράπων) appears 62 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 Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
48 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will draw water for thy camels, this shall be the wife whom the Lord has prepared for his own servant Isaac; and hereby shall I know that thou hast wrought mercy with my master Abraham.
Thus say ye to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done thee evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him.
And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, I have not been sufficient in former times, neither from the time that thou hast begun to speak to thy servant: I am weak in speech, and slow tongued.
11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
And these words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and he appointed to do as they had spoken.
First 60 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2324.
and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will draw water for thy camels, this shall be the wife whom the Lord has prepared for his own servant Isaac; and hereby shall I know that thou hast wrought mercy with my master Abraham.
Thus say ye to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done thee evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him.
And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, I have not been sufficient in former times, neither from the time that thou hast begun to speak to thy servant: I am weak in speech, and slow tongued.
And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge you, for ye have made our savor abominable before Pharaoh, and before his servants, to put a sword into his hands to slay us.
Now if Pharaoh should speak to you, saying, Give us a sign or a wonder, then shalt thou say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy rod and cast it upon the ground before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it shall become a serpent.
And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and they did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron having lifted up his hand with his rod, smote the water in the river before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and changed all the water in the river into blood.
and the river shall teem with frogs, and they shall go up and enter into thy houses, and into thy bedchambers, and upon thy beds, and upon the houses of thy servants, and of thy people, and on thy dough, and on thine ovens.
And upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, shall the frogs come up.
And Moses said to Pharaoh, Appoint me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cause the frogs to disappear from thee, and from thy people, and from your houses, only in the river shall they be left behind.
And the frogs shall be removed away from thee, and from your houses and from the villages, and from thy servants, and from thy people, only in the river they shall be left.
And if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I send upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and upon your houses, the dog fly; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with the dog fly, even throughout the land upon which they are.
And the dog fly came in abundance into the houses of Pharaoh, and into the houses of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt; and the land was destroyed by the dog fly.
And Moses said, I then will go forth from thee and pray to God, and the dog fly shall depart both from thy servants, and from thy people tomorrow. Do not thou, Pharaoh, deceive again, so as not to send the people away to do sacrifice to the Lord.
And the Lord did as Moses said, and removed the dog fly from Pharaoh, and from his servants, and from his people, and there was not one left.
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Take you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward heaven before Pharaoh, and before his servants.
For at this present time do I send forth all my plagues into thy heart, and the heart of thy servants and of thy people; that thou mayest know that there is not another such as I in all the earth.
He of the servants of Pharaoh that feared the word of the Lord, gathered his cattle into the houses.
But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye have not yet feared the Lord.
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders ceased, he continued to sin; and he hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that these signs may come upon them; in order
And thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of thy servants, and all the houses in all the land of the Egyptians; things which thy fathers have never seen, nor their forefathers, from the day that they were upon the earth until this day. And Moses turned away and departed from Pharaoh.
And the servants of Pharaoh say to him, How long shall this be a snare to us? send away the men, that they may serve their God; wilt thou know that Egypt is destroyed?
And the Lord gave his people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they lent to them; and the man Moses was very great before the Egyptians, and before Pharaoh, and before his servants.
And Pharaoh rose up by night, and his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt, for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.
And it was reported to the king of the Egyptians that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharaoh was turned, and that of his servants against the people; and they said, What is this that we have done, to let the children of Israel go, so that they should not serve us?
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and of his servants, and he pursued after the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went forth with a high hand.
And Israel saw the mighty hand, the things which the Lord did to the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and they believed God and Moses his servant.
And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as if one should speak to his friend; and he retired into the camp: but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not forth from the tabernacle.
And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me?
My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house.
I will speak to him mouth to mouth apparently, and not in dark speeches; and he has seen the glory of the Lord; and why were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever the Lord says to his servants, that will we do.
Lord God, thou hast begun to show to thy servant thy strength, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as thou hast done, and according to thy might?
Remember Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
in all the signs and wonders, which the Lord sent him to work in Egypt on Pharaoh, and his servants, and all his land;
Moses my servant is dead; now then arise, go over Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land, which I give them.
to offer up whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and according to all things written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded the children of Israel by Moses the servant of God.
And the Lord said to the devil, Hast thou then observed my servant Job, That there is none of men upon the earth like him, A harmless, true, blameless, godly man, Abstaining from all evil? And he yet cleaves to innocence, Whereas thou hast told me to destroy his substance without cause?
The small and great are there, And the servant that feared his lord.
Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? Or as a hireling waiting for his pay?
And my mouth entreated him.
And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, When they pleaded with me;
And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: For ye have not said anything true before me, As my servant Job has.
Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, And go to my servant Job, And he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, For I will only accept him: For but for his sake, I would have destroyed you, For ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
A wise servant calms a man’s anger; But who can endure a faint-hearted man?
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
And these words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and he appointed to do as they had spoken.
Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with the servant: break down their stateliness by the hand of a woman.
And they that lay near Holofernes went out, and all his servants, and they brought her into the tent.
And when Judith was come before him and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her countenance; and she fell down upon her face, and did reverence unto him: and his servants took her up.
Then her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants; and they marveled at her wisdom, and said,
Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept till midnight, and she arose when it was toward the morning watch,
Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, wert thou not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to slay His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?
She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, And withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;
For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to defend them; And bringing the shield of his proper ministry, Even prayer, and the propitiation of incense, Set himself against the wrath, and so brought the calamity to an end, Declaring that he was thy servant.
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Therapon (Strong's G2324) is a Greek word most simply glossed "servant". therapon (ther-ap'-own) n. 1. a menial attendant (as if cherishing) [apparently a participle from an otherwise obsolete derivative of the base of G2330]
This page currently indexes 60 linked usages for Strong's G2324 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2324 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 servant. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 48 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2324, with linked reader references where each row is available.