Ios means “rust” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2447 — chaklil (“red”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2447 ἰός (ios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ios (ee-os') n. 1. rust (as if emitted by metals) 2. venom (as emitted by serpents) It has 12 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include rust. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
ios (ee-os') n. 1. rust (as if emitted by metals) 2. venom (as emitted by serpents) [perhaps from eimi "to go" or hiemi "to send"] KJV: poison, rust
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2447. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
poison/rust
Usage: ἰός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX: Eze.24:6, 11-12 (חֶלְאָה), Psa.140:3 (חֵמָה), al. ;] __1. an arrow. __2. rust (Ez, l.with): Jas.5:3 (cf. MM, Exp., xv). __3. poison: figuratively, Rom.3:13 (Ps. l.with), Jas.3:8.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ios, 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 G2447 (ἰός) appears 11 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.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
7 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.
But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, And venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2447.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.
But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, And venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
He has caused the arrows of his quiver To enter into my reins.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.
and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,
and her abundant scum may not come forth of her.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2447, grouped by book.
Ios (Strong's G2447) is a Greek word most simply glossed "rust". ios (ee-os') n. 1. rust (as if emitted by metals) 2. venom (as emitted by serpents)
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G2447 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2447 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 rust. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2447, with linked reader references where each row is available.