Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
female
Usage: θῆλυς, -εια, -υ [in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה ;] female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Rom.1:26-27; τὸ θ.., Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Gal.3:28.† (AS)
Thelys means “female” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2338 — chut (“join”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2338 θήλυς (thelus) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. thelus (thay'-loos) adj. 1. female [from thele (the nipple)] It has 42 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include female and woman. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
thelus (thay'-loos) adj. 1. female [from thele (the nipple)] KJV: female, woman See also: G2337
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female
Usage: θῆλυς, -εια, -υ [in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה ;] female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Rom.1:26-27; τὸ θ.., Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Gal.3:28.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render thelus, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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 G2338 (θήλυς) appears 39 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.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
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.
So she took the head out of the bag, and showed it, and said unto them, Behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assyria, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.
He bragged that he would burn up my borders, And kill my young men with the sword, And dash the sucking children against the ground, And make mine infants as a prey, And my virgins as a spoil.
3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget
spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.
to them): "You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth."
First 42 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2338.
And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.
And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.
pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
And he said, When ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.
And if his gift to the Lord be a peace offering, if he should bring it of the oxen, whether it be male or whether it be female, he shall bring it unblemished before the Lord.
And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.
and his sin should be known to him, wherein he has sinned, then shall he bring a kid of the goats, a female without blemish shall he bring for his sin, which he has sinned.
And if he should offer a lamb for his sin offering, he shall offer it a female without blemish.
And he shall bring for his transgressions against the Lord, for his sin which he has sinned, a ewe lamb of the flock, or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and his sin shall be forgiven him.
But if she should have born a female child, then she shall be unclean twice seven days, according to the time of her monthly courses; and for sixty-six days shall she remain in her unclean blood.
And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.
And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.
And the valuation of a female shall be thirty didrachmas.
And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachmas, and of a female ten didrachmas.
And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachmas, and of a female, three didrachmas of silver.
And if from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachmas of silver, and if a female, ten didrachmas.
And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?
Ye that mount a she-ass at noonday, Ye that sit on the judgment seat, And walk by the roads of them that sit in judgment by the way; Declare
And Solomon had four thousand mares for chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he put them in the chariot cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.
And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, Three thousand camels, Five hundred yoke of oxen, Five hundred she-asses in the pastures, And a very great household, And he had a great husbandry on the earth; And that man was most noble of the men of the east.
And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were plowing, And the she-asses were feeding near them;
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: And his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, Six thousand camels, A thousand yoke of oxen, A thousand she-asses of the pastures.
and a cock walking in boldly among the hens, and the goat leading the herd; and a king publicly speaking before a nation.
Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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.
So she took the head out of the bag, and showed it, and said unto them, Behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assyria, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.
He bragged that he would burn up my borders, And kill my young men with the sword, And dash the sucking children against the ground, And make mine infants as a prey, And my virgins as a spoil.
Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,
and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget
spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.
to them): "You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth."
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2338, grouped by book.
Thelys (Strong's G2338) is a Greek word most simply glossed "female". thelus (thay'-loos) adj. 1. female [from thele (the nipple)]
This page currently indexes 42 linked usages for Strong's G2338 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2338 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as female and woman. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 30 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2338, with linked reader references where each row is available.