Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
iron
Usage: σίδηρος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for בַּרְזֶל ;] iron: Rev.18:12.† (AS)
Sideros means “iron” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4604 — maal (“treachery”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4604 σίδηρος (sideros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sideros (sid'-ay-ros) n. 1. iron [of uncertain derivation] It has 60 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include iron. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sideros (sid'-ay-ros) n. 1. iron [of uncertain derivation] KJV: iron
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iron
Usage: σίδηρος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for בַּרְזֶל ;] iron: Rev.18:12.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sideros, 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, 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.
Strong's G4604 (σίδηρος) appears 63 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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
51 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Zillah also bore Tubal; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal was Naamah.
Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,
And if he should smite him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
The very bees, at the season of honey making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even unto death.
First 60 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4604.
And Zillah also bore Tubal; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal was Naamah.
Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,
And if he should smite him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want anything upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.
And if thou shouldest besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, thou shalt not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but thou shalt eat of it, and shalt not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before thee into the work of the siege?
And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt not lift up iron upon it.
His sandal shall be iron and brass; As thy days, so shall be thy strength.
And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.
And the city was burned with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.
And they said, The mount of Ephraim does not please us, and the Canaanite dwelling in it in Beth-shean, and in its villages, and in the Valley of Jezreel, has choice cavalry and iron.
And they departed with much wealth to their houses, and they divided the spoil of their enemies with their brethren; very much cattle, and silver, and gold, and iron, and much raiment.
for behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and there shall come no razor upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been a holy one of God from my mother’s womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all other men.
And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Sabaoth, if thou wilt indeed look upon the humiliation of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give to thy handmaid a man-child, then will I indeed dedicate him to thee till the day of his death; and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and no razor shall come upon his head.
And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear.
And he had a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armor; and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass and iron.
And the staff of his spear was like a weavers’ beam, and the spear’s head was formed of six hundred shekels of iron; and his armor bearer went before him.
And a man shall not labor among them; And one shall have that which is fully armed with iron, And the staff of a spear, And he shall burn them with fire, and they shall be burned in their shame.
for they are thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron.
And David prepared much iron for the nails of the doors and the gates; the hinges also and brass in abundance, there was no weighing of it.
And, behold, I according to my poverty have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and brass and iron without measure; for it is abundant; and I have prepared timber and stones; and do thou add to these.
in gold and silver, brass and iron, of which there is no number. Arise and do, and the Lord be with thee.
I have prepared according to all my might for the house of my God gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, onyx stones, and costly and variegated stones for setting, and every precious stone, and much parian marble.
And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord five thousand talents of gold, and ten thousand gold pieces, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
And now send me a man wise and skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in blue, and one that knows how to grave together with the craftsmen who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, which materials my father David prepared.
(his mother was of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a Tyrian), skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in stones and wood; and to weave with purple, and blue, and fine linen, and scarlet; and to engrave, and to understand every device, whatsoever thou shalt give him to do with thy craftsmen, and the craftsmen of my lord David thy father.
And the king and Jehoiada the priest gave it to the workmen employed in the service of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, also smiths and braziers to repair the house of the Lord.
In famine he shall deliver thee from death: And in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, For he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; Let the brazen bow wound him.
For iron comes out of the earth, And brass is hewn out like stone.
He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, And will by no means turn back from the sword.
His sides are sides of brass; And his backbone is as cast iron.
For he considers iron as chaff, And brass as rotten wood.
They hurt his feet with fetters; His soul passed into iron,
Even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, Fettered in poverty and iron;
For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
I will go before thee, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and will burst iron bars.
And for brass I will bring thee gold, and for iron I will bring thee silver, and instead of wood I will bring thee brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make thy princes peaceable, and thine overseers righteous.
They are all disobedient, walking perversely: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.
Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of silver.
As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you.
The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead.
Out of Uzqal came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population.
Then once for all the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold, were ground to powder, and became as chaff from the summer threshing floor; and the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them: and the stone which had smitten the image became a great mountain, and filled all the earth.
and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat to powder and subdue.
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.
Whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with earthenware.
Whereas thou sawest that a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold; the great God has made known to the king what must happen hereafter: and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof sure.
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
The very bees, at the season of honey making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even unto death.
And when he had made a convenient room for it, Set it in a wall, and made it fast with iron:
Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, are easier to bear, Than a man without understanding.
The smith also sitting by the anvil, And considering the iron work, The vapor of the fire wasteth his flesh, And he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: The noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, And his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; He setteth his mind to finish his work, And watcheth to polish it perfectly:
The principal things for the whole use of man’s life Are water, fire, iron, and salt, Flour of wheat, honey, milk, And the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
Hezekiah fortified his city, And brought in water into the midst thereof: He dug the hard rock with iron, And made wells for waters.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4604, grouped by book.
Sideros (Strong's G4604) is a Greek word most simply glossed "iron". sideros (sid'-ay-ros) n. 1. iron [of uncertain derivation]
This page currently indexes 60 linked usages for Strong's G4604 across 22 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4604 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 iron. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 51 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4604, with linked reader references where each row is available.