Austeros means “austere” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H840 — asarel (“Asareel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G840 αὐστηρός (austeros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. austeros (au-stay-ros') adj. 1. rough (properly as a gale) 2. (figuratively) severe It has 3 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include austere. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
austeros (au-stay-ros') adj. 1. rough (properly as a gale) 2. (figuratively) severe [from a (presumed) derivative of the same as G109 (meaning blown)] KJV: austere Root(s): G109
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G840. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
severe
Usage: αὐστηρός, -ά, -όν (αἄω, to dry up) [in LXX: 2Ma.14:30 * ;] prop., stringent, harsh to the taste. Metaphorical, in Inscr., of a rough country; of disposition and manners, strict, severe (as in π., of an inspector; MM, s v): Luk.19:21-22.† SYN.: σκληρός (Tr., § xiv) (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render austeros, 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 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.
Strong's G840 (αὐστηρός) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that such sour behavior came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G840.
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that such sour behavior came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G840, grouped by book.
Austeros (Strong's G840) is a Greek word most simply glossed "austere". austeros (au-stay-ros') adj. 1. rough (properly as a gale) 2. (figuratively) severe
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G840 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G840 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as austere. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G840, with linked reader references where each row is available.