Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
a goat
Usage: ἔριφος, -ου [in LXX chiefly for גְּדִי ;] a kid: Mat.25:32, Luk.15:29, WH, txt.† (AS)
Eriphos means “goat” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2056 — valad (“child”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2056 ἔριφος (eriphos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eriphos (er'-if-os) n. 1. a kid or (genitive case) goat [perhaps from the same as G2053 (through the idea of hairiness)] It has 29 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include kid. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
eriphos (er'-if-os) n. 1. a kid or (genitive case) goat [perhaps from the same as G2053 (through the idea of hairiness)] KJV: goat, kid Root(s): G2053
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2056. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
a goat
Usage: ἔριφος, -ου [in LXX chiefly for גְּדִי ;] a kid: Mat.25:32, Luk.15:29, WH, txt.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eriphos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2056 (ἔριφος) appears 27 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And go to the cattle and take for me thence two kids, tender and good, and I will make them meats for thy father, as he likes.
And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck.
And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And unto the people that was found there Josiah gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s allowance, according as he promised, to the people, to the priests and to the Levites.
And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, giving her also besides a kid.
And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
First 29 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2056.
And go to the cattle and take for me thence two kids, tender and good, and I will make them meats for thy father, as he likes.
And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck.
And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.
And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from my flock; and she said, Well, if thou wilt give me an earnest, until thou send it.
And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman; and he found her not.
And Judah said, Let her have them, but let us not be ridiculed; I sent this kid, but thou hast not found her.
It shall be to you a lamb unblemished, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs and the kids.
And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole burnt offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish.
And Gideon went in, and prepared a kid of the goats, and an ephah of fine flour unleavened; and he put the flesh in the basket, and poured the broth into the pot, and brought them forth to him under the turpentine tree, and drew nigh.
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Let us detain thee here, and prepare before thee a kid of the goats.
And Manoah took a kid of the goats and its meat offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; and the angel wrought a distinct work, and Manoah and his wife were looking on.
And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he crushed him as he would have crushed a kid of the goats, and there was nothing in his hands: and he told not his father and his mother what he had done.
And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.
And Jesse took a homer of bread, and a bottle of wine, and one kid of the goats, and sent them by the hand of his son David to Saul.
And Josiah gave as an offering to the children of the people, sheep, and lambs, and kids of the young of the goats, all for the Passover, even for all that were found, in number amounting to thirty thousand, and three thousand calves, these were of the substance of the king.
And his princes gave an offering to the people, and to the priests, and to the Levites: and Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel the chief men gave to the priests of the house of God, they even gave for the Passover sheep, and lambs, and kids, two thousand six hundred, and three hundred calves.
If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, Go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, And feed thy kids by the shepherds’ tents.
And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.
And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
And on the second day they shall take two kids of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall make atonement for the altar, as they made atonement with the calf.
Seven days shalt thou offer a kid daily for a sin offering, and a calf of the herd, and a ram out of the flock: they shall sacrifice them unblemished for seven days:
And for the seven days of the feast he shall offer as whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering, and a meat offering.
who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
And unto the people that was found there Josiah gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s allowance, according as he promised, to the people, to the priests and to the Levites.
And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, giving her also besides a kid.
And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
He played with lions as with kids, And with bears as with lambs.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2056, grouped by book.
Eriphos (Strong's G2056) is a Greek word most simply glossed "goat". eriphos (er'-if-os) n. 1. a kid or (genitive case) goat [perhaps from the same as G2053 (through the idea of hairiness)]
This page currently indexes 29 linked usages for Strong's G2056 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2056 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as kid. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2056, with linked reader references where each row is available.