idios · own

What it means

idios (ἴδιος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “own”.

One's own, his own.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What belongs to someone; their people, their family.
2. Away from the crowd, with a few or alone.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

One's own, what belongs to one and not to another; “his own”, his people. With a preposition, κατ᾽ ἰδίαν means “apart, privately”. Abbott-Smith: pertaining to oneself, one's own. Of the same family is ἰδιώτης, “an unlearned person”.

• What is one's own John 10:3John 5:18Acts 2:8
• “What was his own” and “his own” John 1:11John 19:27
• Apart, privately Matthew 17:1Mark 4:34
• “In due season” Galatians 6:91 Timothy 2:6

How we translate it

“Own” 90 times; “privately” 9, “by themselves” and “aside” for κατ᾽ ἰδίαν; “proper” 3, “due” 1. With “time” (καιρῷ ἰδίῳ), “in due season” or “at the proper time”: the time that belongs to each thing (Galatians 6:9; 1 Timothy 2:6).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• own ×90
• privately ×9
• proper ×3
• themselves ×3
• aside ×2
• himself ×2
• away by yourselves ×1
• due ×1
• his ×1
• individually ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×10
• Mark×9
• Luke×6
• John×15
• Acts×16
• Romans×5
• 1 Corinthians×16
• Galatians×3
• Ephesians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• 1 Timothy×9
• 2 Timothy×2
• Titus×4
• Hebrews×4
• James×1
• 1 Peter×2
• 2 Peter×7
• Jude×1

• Matthew 9:1

  And getting into a boat, he crossed over and came to his own town.

• Matthew 14:13

  Hearing this, Jesus withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself; and when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

• Matthew 14:23

  And after sending the crowds away, he went up onto the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

• Matthew 17:1

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John his brother, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves.

• Matthew 17:19

  Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

• Matthew 20:17

  And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

• Matthew 22:5

  But they paid no attention and went off, one to his own field, another to his business;

• Matthew 24:3

  And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

• Matthew 25:14

  For it is just as a man going on a journey called his own slaves and handed over to them his possessions.

• Matthew 25:15

  And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. At once

• Mark 4:34

  and he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

• Mark 6:31

  And he says to them, “You yourselves come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a little.” For those who were coming and going were many, and they did not even have the chance to eat.

• Mark 6:32

  And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

• Mark 7:33

  And taking him aside from the crowd he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue;

• Mark 9:2

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them,

• Mark 9:28

  And when he had gone into the house, his disciples were asking him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?”

• Mark 13:3

  And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were asking him privately,

• Mark 15:20

  And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple and put his own clothes on him. And they lead him out to crucify him.

• Luke 6:41

  And why do you see the splinter that is in your brother’s eye, but the beam that is in your own eye you do not notice?

• Luke 6:44

  For each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

• Luke 9:10

  And when the apostles returned, they described to him all that they had done. And taking them along, he withdrew privately to a city called Bethsaida.

• Luke 10:23

  And turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Happy are the eyes that see what you see.

• Luke 10:34

  And he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and putting him on his own animal, he brought him to an inn and took care of him.

• Luke 18:28

  And Peter said, “Look, we left what was ours and followed you.”

• John 1:11

  He came to what was his own, and his own people did not receive him.

• John 1:41

  He first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated is Anointed).

• John 4:44

  For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

• John 5:18

  For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

• John 5:43

  I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

• John 7:18

  Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

• John 8:44

  You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of it.

• John 10:3

  To him the gatekeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

• John 10:4

  When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

• John 10:12

  The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters them.

• John 13:1

  Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

• John 15:19

  If you were of the world, the world would hold dear its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

• John 16:32

  Look, an hour is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

• John 19:27

  Then he says to the disciple, “Look, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

• Acts 1:7

  He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority;

• Acts 1:19

  And it became known to all those who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.

And 74 more times.