Thēlus θῆλυς

Thēlus (Greek θῆλυς, Strong's G2338) is a Greek adjective meaning “female”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Gender

Verses

Every verse with Thēlus, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

• Matthew 19:4
  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

Mark

• Mark 10:6
  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Romans

• Romans 1:26
  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
• Romans 1:27
  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Galatians

• Galatians 3:28
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).