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Strong's G730 ἄῤῥην (arrhen)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H730 — erez in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G730
Language Greek
Linked Usages 58
Books 20

Strong's G730 Quick Answer

Strong's G730 ἄρῥην (arrhen) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. arrhen (ar'-rhayn) (or arsen ar'-sayn) n. 1. male (as stronger for lifting) [probably from G142] It has 58 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include male and man. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
arrhen (ar'-rhayn) (or arsen ar'-sayn) n. 1. male (as stronger for lifting) [probably from G142]
Usage
58 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
male and man

Meaning and Definition

arrhen (ar'-rhayn) (or arsen ar'-sayn) n. 1. male (as stronger for lifting) [probably from G142] KJV: male, man Root(s): G142

Original Word
ἄρῥην
Transliteration
arrhen
Derivation
Root: αἴρω R1: 142
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G730. 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)

male

Usage: ἄρσην (ἄρρην, T, in Rom.1:27; Rec. in Rev.12:5, 13) -ενος, ὁ, ἡ, ἄρσεν, τό (old Attic for ἄρρην, see supr.; both forms are found in π.; MM, see word), [in LXX chiefly for זָכָר ;] male: Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Luk.2:23, Rom.1:27, Gal.3:28, Rev.12:5, 13.† (AS)

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How Strong's G730 Is Translated

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

male Matthew 19:4 man Revelation 12:5

How Strong's G730 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 47 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 G730 (ἄρῥην) appears 54 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G730 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 G730 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 19:4 KJV

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Mark 10:6 KJV

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Luke 2:23 KJV

(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)

Strong's G730 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

47 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 1:27 Septuagint / Brenton

And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.

Genesis 5:2 Septuagint / Brenton

male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

Genesis 6:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.

Strong's G730 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 6:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other.

2 Maccabees 7:21 Septuagint / Brenton

Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,

4 Maccabees 15:30 Septuagint / Brenton

O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!

Usage Excerpts

First 58 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G730.

Genesis 1:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
Genesis 5:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.
Genesis 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
Genesis 6:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
Genesis 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.
Genesis 7:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.
Genesis 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
Genesis 17:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all his homeborn servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraham, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.
Genesis 34:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Hamor and Shechem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.
Exodus 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, When ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.
Exodus 1:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.
Exodus 1:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that ye have done this thing, and saved the male children alive?
Exodus 1:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.
Exodus 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.
Exodus 12:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It shall be to you a lamb unblemished, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs and the kids.
Leviticus 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If his gift be a whole burnt offering, he shall bring an unblemished male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall bring it as acceptable before the Lord.
Leviticus 1:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole burnt offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Leviticus 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if his gift to the Lord be a peace offering, if he should bring it of the oxen, whether it be male or whether it be female, he shall bring it unblemished before the Lord.
Leviticus 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.
Leviticus 4:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and his trespass wherein he has sinned, be known to him—then shall he offer for his gift a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.
Leviticus 6:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every male among the priests shall eat it: it is most holy to the Lord.
Leviticus 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every male of the priest shall eat them, in the holy place they shall eat them: they are most holy.
Leviticus 12:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever woman shall have conceived and born a male child shall be unclean seven days, she shall be unclean according to the days of separation for her monthly courses.
Leviticus 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.
Leviticus 15:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.
Leviticus 18:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.
Leviticus 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
your free will offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
Leviticus 27:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be—his valuation shall be fifty didrachmas of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachmas, and of a female ten didrachmas.
Leviticus 27:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachmas, and of a female, three didrachmas of silver.
Leviticus 27:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachmas of silver, and if a female, ten didrachmas.
Numbers 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindred, according to the houses of their fathers’ families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male
Numbers 3:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Count every firstborn male of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number by name.
Numbers 31:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man.
Numbers 31:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive.
Joshua 17:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was land assigned to the other sons of Manasseh according to their families; to the sons of Abiezer, and to the sons of Helek, and to the sons of Asriel, and to the sons of Shechem, and to the sons of Shemida, and to the sons of Hepher: these are the males according to their families.
Judges 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.
Judges 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Job 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the day perish in which I was born, And that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!
Isaiah 26:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;
Isaiah 66:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.
Jeremiah 20:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee.
Jeremiah 37:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Inquire, and see if a male has born a child? and ask concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and look for safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to paleness.
Malachi 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And cursed is the man who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.
Matthew 19:4 New Testament, KJV
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:6 New Testament, KJV
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Luke 2:23 New Testament, KJV
(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Romans 1:27 New Testament, KJV
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Galatians 3:28 New Testament, KJV
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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 12:13 New Testament, KJV
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
Tobit 6:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other.
2 Maccabees 7:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,
4 Maccabees 15:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!
Wisdom of Sirach 36:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Reward them that wait for thee, And let thy prophets be found faithful.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G730, grouped by book.

Genesis 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G730 FAQ

What does arrhen (ἄῤῥην) mean?

Arrhen (Strong's G730) is a Greek word most simply glossed "male". arrhen (ar'-rhayn) (or arsen ar'-sayn) n. 1. male (as stronger for lifting) [probably from G142]

How many times is arrhen (ἄῤῥην) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 58 linked usages for Strong's G730 across 20 books.

Where can I study arrhen (ἄῤῥην) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G730 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate arrhen (ἄῤῥην)?

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

Does Strong's G730 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 47 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G730, with linked reader references where each row is available.