Kanon means “rule” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2583 — chanah (“camp”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2583 κανών (kanon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kanon (kan-own') n. 1. a rule ("canon") 2. (figuratively) a standard (of faith and practice) It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include rule. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kanon (kan-own') n. 1. a rule ("canon") 2. (figuratively) a standard (of faith and practice) 3. (by implication) a boundary 4. (figuratively) a sphere (of activity) [from kane "a straight reed, i.e. rod"] KJV: line, rule
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2583. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
rule
Usage: κανών, -όνος, ὁ (cf. κάννα, and Heb. קָנֶה, a reed), [in LXX: Mic.7:4, Jdth.13:6, 4Ma.7:21 (and in Aq., Psa.19:5, Job.38:5)* ;] __1. a rod or bar (Jth, l.with). __2. a measuring rule; hence, metaph, __3. a rule or standard: Gal.6:16. __4. a limit (RV, province): 2Co.10:13-16. (For the history of the word and esp. its later meanings, see Westc., Canon, App. A; cf. also MM, Exp., xv; Cremer, 744.)† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kanon, 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 New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G2583 (κανών) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his falchion from thence,
since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2583.
therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his falchion from thence,
since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2583, grouped by book.
Kanon (Strong's G2583) is a Greek word most simply glossed "rule". kanon (kan-own') n. 1. a rule ("canon") 2. (figuratively) a standard (of faith and practice)
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G2583 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2583 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 rule. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2583, with linked reader references where each row is available.