Idea means “countenance” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2397 — chach (“bracelet”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2397 ἰδέα (idea) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. idea (id-eh'-ah) n. 1. a sight (comparative figuratively "idea"), i.e. aspect [from G1492] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include countenance. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
idea (id-eh'-ah) n. 1. a sight (comparative figuratively "idea"), i.e. aspect [from G1492] KJV: countenance Root(s): G1492
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2397. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: ἰδέα, -ας, ἡ, see: εἰδέα εἰδέα (Rec. ἰδ-, as in cl.; see Tdf., Pr., 81), -ας, ἡ (εἶδον), [in LXX (seel. ἰδ-): Gen.5:3 (דְּמוּת), Da TH 1:13, 15 (מַרְאֶה), Ep. Jer.63, 2Ma.3:16 * ;] appearance, look: Mat.28:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render idea, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 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 G2397 (ἰδέα) appears 8 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.
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.
and let our countenances be seen by thee, and the countenances of the children that eat at the king’s table; and deal with thy servants according as thou shalt see.
And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then whoso had looked the high priest in the face, it would have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his color declared the inward agony of his mind.
Let us determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?
And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2397.
And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.
and let our countenances be seen by thee, and the countenances of the children that eat at the king’s table; and deal with thy servants according as thou shalt see.
And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Then whoso had looked the high priest in the face, it would have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his color declared the inward agony of his mind.
Let us determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?
And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.
And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2397, grouped by book.
Idea (Strong's G2397) is a Greek word most simply glossed "countenance". idea (id-eh'-ah) n. 1. a sight (comparative figuratively "idea"), i.e. aspect [from G1492]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G2397 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2397 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 countenance. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2397, with linked reader references where each row is available.