Strong's #225: aletheia (pronounced al-ay'-thi-a)
from 227; truth:--true, X truly, truth, verity.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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alētheia
1) objectively
1a) what is true in any matter under consideration
1a1) truly, in truth, according to truth
1a2) of a truth, in reality, in fact, certainly
1b) what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truth
1b1) in the greatest latitude
1b2) the true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural intervention
1c) the truth as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposing alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians
2) subjectively
2a) truth as a personal excellence
2a1) that candour of mind which is free from affection, pretence, simulation, falsehood, deceit
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G227
Citing in TDNT: 1:232, 37
Usage:
This word is used 110 times:
2 Corinthians 12:6: "a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man"
2 Corinthians 13:8: "nothing against the truth, but for the"
2 Corinthians 13:8: "truth, but for the truth."
Galatians 2:5: "an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with"
Galatians 2:14: "they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said"
Galatians 3:1: "that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus"
Galatians 5:7: "that ye should not obey the truth?"
Ephesians 1:13: "trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:"
Ephesians 4:21: "by him, as the truth is in Jesus:"
Ephesians 4:24: "in righteousness and true holiness."
Ephesians 4:25: "lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for"
Ephesians 5:9: "and righteousness and truth;)"
Ephesians 6:14: "loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate"
Philippians 1:18: "whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein"
Colossians 1:5: "the word of the truth of the gospel;"
Colossians 1:6: "the grace of God in truth:"
2 Thessalonians 2:10: "not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."
2 Thessalonians 2:12: "who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
2 Thessalonians 2:13: "of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"
1 Timothy 2:4: "to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
1 Timothy 2:7: "a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie"
1 Timothy 2:7: "of the Gentiles in faith and verity."
1 Timothy 3:15: "and ground of the truth."
1 Timothy 4:3: "of them which believe and know the truth."
1 Timothy 6:5: "and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:"
2 Timothy 2:15: "rightly dividing the word of truth."
2 Timothy 2:18: "Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection"
2 Timothy 2:25: "them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;"
2 Timothy 3:7: "to come to the knowledge of the truth."
2 Timothy 3:8: "do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds,"
2 Timothy 4:4: "their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto"
Titus 1:1: "elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;"
Titus 1:14: "of men, that turn from the truth."
Hebrews 10:26: "the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for"
James 1:18: "begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits"
James 3:14: "lie not against the truth."
James 5:19: "do err from the truth, and one convert him;"
1 Peter 1:22: "in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned"
2 Peter 1:12: "them, and be established in the present truth."
2 Peter 2:2: "whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of."
1 John 1:6: "do not the truth:"
1 John 1:8: "ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
1 John 2:4: "a liar, and the truth is not in him."
1 John 2:21: "ye know not the truth, but because ye know it,"
1 John 2:21: "lie is of the truth."
1 John 3:18: "but in deed and in truth."
1 John 3:19: "that we are of the truth, and shall assure our"
1 John 4:6: "Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit"
1 John 5:6: "the Spirit is truth."
2 John 1:1: "I love in the truth; and not I only,"
