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Strong's G4582 σελήνη (selene)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4582 — maok (“Maoch”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4582
Language Greek
Linked Usages 46
Books 23

Strong's G4582 Quick Answer

Strong's G4582 σελήνη (selene) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. selene (sel-ay'-nay) n. 1. the moon [from selas "brilliancy" (probably akin to the alternate of G138, through the idea of attractiveness)] It has 46 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include moon. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
selene (sel-ay'-nay) n. 1. the moon [from selas "brilliancy" (probably akin to the alternate of G138, through the idea of attractiveness)]
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
moon

Meaning and Definition

selene (sel-ay'-nay) n. 1. the moon [from selas "brilliancy" (probably akin to the alternate of G138, through the idea of attractiveness)] KJV: moon See also: G138

Original Word
σελήνη
Transliteration
selene
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4582. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

moon

Usage: σελήνη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for יָרֵחַ (Gen.37:9, al.), also for לְבָנָה; (Sng.6:9(10), ?Isa.24:23 30:26) ;] the moon: Mat.24:29, Mrk.13:24, Luk.21:25, Act.2:20" (LXX), 1Co.15:41, Rev.6:12 8:12 12:1 21:23.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4582 Is Translated

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

moon Matthew 24:29

How Strong's G4582 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 30 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.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4582 (σελήνη) appears 37 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4582 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 G4582 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 24:29 KJV

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Mark 13:24 KJV

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

Luke 21:25 KJV

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Strong's G4582 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 37:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.

Deuteronomy 4:19 Septuagint / Brenton

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

Deuteronomy 17:3 Septuagint / Brenton

and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,

Strong's G4582 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

4 Maccabees 17:5 Septuagint / Brenton

Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons whom thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.

Wisdom of Sirach 27:11 Septuagint / Brenton

The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; But a fool changeth as the moon.

Wisdom of Sirach 43:6 Septuagint / Brenton

He made the moon also to serve in her season For a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4582.

Genesis 37:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.
Deuteronomy 4:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.
Deuteronomy 17:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,
Joshua 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gibeon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gibeon, And the moon over against the Valley of Aijalon.
Joshua 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sun and the moon stood still, Until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to set till the end of one day.
4 Kingdoms 23:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he burned the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Judah, and the places round about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.
Job 25:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; And the stars are not pure before him.
Job 31:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(Do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, And the moon waning? for they have not power to continue):
Psalms 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will regard the heavens, the work of thy fingers; The moon and stars, which thou hast established.
Psalms 71:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall continue as long as the sun, And before the moon forever.
Psalms 71:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In his days shall righteousness spring up; And abundance of peace till the moon be removed.
Psalms 88:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as the moon that is established forever, And as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause.
Psalms 103:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knows his going down.
Psalms 120:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sun shall not burn thee by day, Neither the moon by night.
Psalms 135:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The moon and the stars to rule the night; For his mercy endures forever.
Psalms 148:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Praise him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars and light.
Ecclesiastes 12:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
While the sun and light are not darkened, Nor the moon and the stars; Nor the clouds return after the rain:
Song of Solomon 6:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who is this that looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, choice as the sun, Terrible as armies set in array?
Isaiah 13:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.
Isaiah 30:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.
Isaiah 60:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten thy night; but the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and God thy glory.
Isaiah 60:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be completed.
Jeremiah 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshiped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,
Jeremiah 38:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:
Ezekiel 32:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
Daniel 3:62 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O ye sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: Praise and exalt him above all forever.
Joel 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
Joel 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord come.
Joel 4:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
Habakkuk 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: Thy darts shall go forth at the light, At the brightness of the gleaming of thine arms.
Matthew 24:29 New Testament, KJV
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mark 13:24 New Testament, KJV
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
Luke 21:25 New Testament, KJV
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Acts 2:20 New Testament, KJV
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
1 Corinthians 15:41 New Testament, KJV
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Revelation 6:12 New Testament, KJV
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation 8:12 New Testament, KJV
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Revelation 12:1 New Testament, KJV
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Revelation 21:23 New Testament, KJV
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
4 Maccabees 17:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons whom thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.
Wisdom of Sirach 27:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; But a fool changeth as the moon.
Wisdom of Sirach 43:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He made the moon also to serve in her season For a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.
Wisdom of Sirach 43:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.
Wisdom of Sirach 50:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, And as the moon at the full:
Letter of Jeremiah 1:59 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore it is better to be a king that showeth his power, or else a profitable vessel in a house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in a house, to keep such things safe as be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:66 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For they can neither curse nor bless kings:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4582, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 4 usages, New Testament
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4582 FAQ

What does selene (σελήνη) mean?

Selene (Strong's G4582) is a Greek word most simply glossed "moon". selene (sel-ay'-nay) n. 1. the moon [from selas "brilliancy" (probably akin to the alternate of G138, through the idea of attractiveness)]

How many times is selene (σελήνη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's G4582 across 23 books.

Where can I study selene (σελήνη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4582 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate selene (σελήνη)?

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

Does Strong's G4582 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 30 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4582, with linked reader references where each row is available.