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Strong's G438 ἄνθος (anthos)

Anthos means “flower” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H438 — allon in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G438
Language Greek
Linked Usages 31
Books 15

Strong's G438 Quick Answer

Strong's G438 ἄνθος (anthos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anthos (anth'-os) n. 1. a blossom [a primary word] It has 31 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include flower. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
anthos (anth'-os) n. 1. a blossom [a primary word]
Usage
31 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
flower

Meaning and Definition

anthos (anth'-os) n. 1. a blossom [a primary word] KJV: flower

Original Word
ἄνθος
Transliteration
anthos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G438. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's G438 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anthos, 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.

flower James 1:10

How Strong's G438 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 20 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G438 (ἄνθος) appears 29 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G438 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G438 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

James 1:10 KJV

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

James 1:11 KJV

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1 Peter 1:24 KJV

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Strong's G438 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

20 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 28:14 Septuagint / Brenton

and thou shalt make two fringes of pure gold, variegated with flowers, wreathen work; and thou shalt put the wreathen fringes on the circlets, fastening them on their shoulder pieces in front.

Exodus 30:23 Septuagint / Brenton

Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,

Numbers 17:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed, and put forth a bud, and bloomed blossoms and produced almonds.

Strong's G438 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

3 Maccabees 7:16 Septuagint / Brenton

They themselves having held fast their God unto death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Savior of Israel.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:7 Septuagint / Brenton

Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: And let no flower of the spring pass by us.

Wisdom of Sirach 24:17 Septuagint / Brenton

As the vine brought I forth pleasant savor, And my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches.

Strong's G438 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 24:4 Septuagint / Brenton

in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever:

1 Enoch 24:5 Septuagint / Brenton

and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit n resembles the dates of a palm. Then I said: 'How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.'

Usage Excerpts

First 31 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G438.

Exodus 28:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shalt make two fringes of pure gold, variegated with flowers, wreathen work; and thou shalt put the wreathen fringes on the circlets, fastening them on their shoulder pieces in front.
Exodus 30:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,
Numbers 17:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed, and put forth a bud, and bloomed blossoms and produced almonds.
Job 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; And he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
Job 15:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither shall he in anywise escape the darkness: Let the wind blast his blossom, And let his flower fall off.
Job 15:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, And let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
Psalms 102:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.
Song of Solomon 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am a flower of the plain, A lily of the valleys.
Song of Solomon 2:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The flowers are seen in the land; The time of pruning has arrived; The voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.
Isaiah 5:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore as stubble shall be burned by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root:
Isaiah 18:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;
Isaiah 28:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.
Isaiah 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.
Isaiah 40:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
Isaiah 40:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The grass withers, and the flower fades:
Isaiah 61:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, even the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.
Ezekiel 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoots abounded by reason of much water.
Daniel 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But out of the flower of her root there shall arise one on his place, and shall come against the host, and shall enter into the strongholds of the king of the north, and shall fight against them, and prevail.
Zephaniah 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
before ye become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the wrath of the Lord come upon you.
James 1:10 New Testament, KJV
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James 1:11 New Testament, KJV
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1 Peter 1:24 New Testament, KJV
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
3 Maccabees 7:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They themselves having held fast their God unto death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Savior of Israel.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: And let no flower of the spring pass by us.
Wisdom of Sirach 24:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As the vine brought I forth pleasant savor, And my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches.
Wisdom of Sirach 39:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And give ye a sweet savor as frankincense, And flourish as a lily, Send forth a smell, and sing a song of praise, Bless the Lord in all his works.
Wisdom of Sirach 50:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year, As lilies by the rivers of waters, And as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer:
Wisdom of Sirach 51:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Even from the flower till the grape was ripe Hath my heart delighted in her: My foot went the right way, From my youth up sought I after her.
1 Enoch 24:4 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever:
1 Enoch 24:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit n resembles the dates of a palm. Then I said: 'How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.'

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G438, grouped by book.

Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
James 2 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G438 FAQ

What does anthos (ἄνθος) mean?

Anthos (Strong's G438) is a Greek word most simply glossed "flower". anthos (anth'-os) n. 1. a blossom [a primary word]

How many times is anthos (ἄνθος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 31 linked usages for Strong's G438 across 15 books.

Where can I study anthos (ἄνθος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G438 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate anthos (ἄνθος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as flower. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G438 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 20 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G438, with linked reader references where each row is available.