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Strong's G4603 σιδήρεος (sidereos)

sidereos - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4603 — maal (“transgress”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4603
Language Greek
Linked Usages 45
Books 21

Strong's G4603 Quick Answer

Strong's G4603 σιδήρεος (sidereos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sidereos (sid-ay'-reh-os) adj. 1. made of iron [from G4604] It has 45 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include iron. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
sidereos (sid-ay'-reh-os) adj. 1. made of iron [from G4604]
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
iron

Meaning and Definition

sidereos (sid-ay'-reh-os) adj. 1. made of iron [from G4604] KJV: (of) iron Root(s): G4604

Original Word
σιδήρεος
Transliteration
sidereos
Derivation
Root: σίδηρος R1: 4604
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4603. 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)

iron

Usage: σιδήρεος, -α, -ον (-οῦς, -ᾶ -οῦν) (σίδηρος), [in LXX chiefly for בַּרְזֶל ;] of iron: Act.12:10, Rev.2:27 9:9 12:5 19:15.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4603 Is Translated

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

iron Acts 12:10

How Strong's G4603 Usage Compares

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

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 33 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 G4603 (σιδήρεος) appears 43 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4603 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 G4603 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 12:10 KJV

When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.

Revelation 2:27 KJV

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Revelation 9:9 KJV

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Strong's G4603 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

33 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Leviticus 26:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.

Deuteronomy 3:11 Septuagint / Brenton

For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the Rephaim: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.

Deuteronomy 4:20 Septuagint / Brenton

But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

Strong's G4603 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 11:9 Septuagint / Brenton

Then they praised the merciful God all together, and took heart, insomuch that they were ready not only to fight with men, but with most cruel beasts, and to pierce through walls of iron.

3 Maccabees 3:25 Septuagint / Brenton

As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.

4 Maccabees 8:13 Septuagint / Brenton

Fear, young men, and the Righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4603.

Leviticus 26:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.
Deuteronomy 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the Rephaim: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy 4:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 28:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt have over thy head a sky of brass, and the earth under thee shall be iron.
Deuteronomy 28:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord will send forth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things; and thou shalt wear upon thy neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed thee.
Judges 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.
Judges 4:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Sisera summoned all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron and all the people with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the brook of Kishon.
2 Kingdoms 12:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under iron harrows, and axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
3 Kingdoms 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
3 Kingdoms 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself iron horns, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria, until it be consumed.
1 Chronicles 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought out the people that were in it, and sawed them asunder with saws, and cut them with iron axes, and with harrows: and thus David did to all the children of Ammon. And David and all his people returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 18:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself iron horns, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt thrust Syria until it be consumed.
Job 19:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or graven in the rocks!
Psalms 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces as a potter’s vessel.
Psalms 106:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, And crushed the iron bars.
Psalms 149:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To bind their kings with fetters, And their nobles with manacles of iron;
Isaiah 48:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I know that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brazen.
Jeremiah 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
which I commanded your fathers, in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to my voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall ye be to me a people, and I will be to you a God;
Jeremiah 35:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron.
Jeremiah 35:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And take thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.
Daniel 2:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
its legs of iron, its feet, part of iron and part of earthenware.
Daniel 2:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou sawest until a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it smote the image upon its feet of iron and earthenware, and utterly reduced them to powder.
Daniel 2:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, part of earthenware and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet there shall be in it of the strength of iron, as thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware.
Daniel 2:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whereas the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and part of it shall be broken.
Daniel 4:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and bind it with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.
Daniel 4:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and bind it with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the grass that is without, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it;
Daniel 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before thee the vessels of his house, and thou, and thy nobles, and thy mistresses, and thy concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and thou hast praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are thy breath and all thy ways hast thou not glorified.
Daniel 7:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Daniel 7:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I inquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every other beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet:
Amos 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites.
Micah 4:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thy horns iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.
Acts 12:10 New Testament, KJV
When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
Revelation 2:27 New Testament, KJV
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Revelation 9:9 New Testament, KJV
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Revelation 12:5 New Testament, KJV
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Revelation 19:15 New Testament, KJV
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
2 Maccabees 11:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then they praised the merciful God all together, and took heart, insomuch that they were ready not only to fight with men, but with most cruel beasts, and to pierce through walls of iron.
3 Maccabees 3:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.
4 Maccabees 8:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Fear, young men, and the Righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.
4 Maccabees 9:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapult.
4 Maccabees 9:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,
4 Maccabees 11:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion fashion.
Wisdom of Sirach 28:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, And the bands thereof are bands of brass.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4603, grouped by book.

Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 4 usages, New Testament
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4603 FAQ

What does sidereos (σιδήρεος) mean?

Strong's G4603 is a Greek entry for G4603 σιδήρεος (sidereos). sidereos (sid-ay'-reh-os) adj. 1. made of iron [from G4604]

How many times is sidereos (σιδήρεος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G4603 across 21 books.

Where can I study sidereos (σιδήρεος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4603 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate sidereos (σιδήρεος)?

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

Does Strong's G4603 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 33 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4603, with linked reader references where each row is available.