TRV
ἐλέγχω
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 19 occurrences, inflected in 13 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it. These are this word’s own inflections, not words built from it — for those, see Related Words.
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ἔλεγχε
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
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ἔλεγξον
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐλέγχετε·
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἐλεγχόμενοι
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ἐλεγχόμενος
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ἐλέγξαι
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ἐλεγχθῇ
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Subjunctive
- Possibility or purpose — "might", "should".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐλέγξει
- Future
- Action yet to take place.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐλέγχω
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐλέγχει
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐλέγχειν
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ἐλέγχεται
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐλεγχόμενα
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Neuter
- Neuter grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 17 verses across 11 of the 27 books. Most frequent in John (4 verses); never once in the other 16.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.