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Strong's #227: alethes (pronounced al-ay-thace')

from 1 (as a negative particle) and 2990; true (as not concealing):--true, truly, truth.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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alēthēs

1) true

2) loving the truth, speaking the truth, truthful

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2990

Citing in TDNT: 1:247, 37




Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

Matthew 22:16: "we know that thou art true, and teachest the way"
Mark 12:14: "we know that thou art true, and carest"
John 3:33: "that God is true."
John 4:18: "husband: in that saidst thou truly."
John 5:31: "witness is not true."
John 5:32: "of me is true."
John 7:18: "him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is"
John 8:13: "record is not true."
John 8:14: "yet my record is true: for I know whence I came,"
John 8:16: "my judgment is true: for I am not alone,"
John 8:17: "of two men is true."
John 8:26: "he that sent me is true; and I speak to the"
John 10:41: "of this man were true."
John 19:35: "knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe."
John 21:24: "his testimony is true."
Acts 12:9: "not that it was true which was done by the angel;"
Romans 3:4: "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man"
2 Corinthians 6:8: "as deceivers, and yet true;"
Philippians 4:8: "brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,"
Titus 1:13: "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke"
1 Peter 5:12: "and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein"
2 Peter 2:22: "unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;"
1 John 2:8: "unto you, which thing is true in him and in"
1 John 2:27: "of all things, and is truth, and is no"
3 John 1:12: "our record is true."









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