What does ἶρις (îris) mean in the Bible?
ἶρις (îris) is a Greek word meaning "a rainbow ("iris")".
Greek · G2463
ἶρις
A rainbow ("iris")
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ἶριςG2463
Pronunciationîris
What does ἶρις (îris) mean in the Bible?
ἶρις (îris) is a Greek word meaning "a rainbow ("iris")".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2463?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a rainbow (1), rainbow (1).
Where does ἶρις (îris) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Revelation 4:3. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita rainbow1×Revelation 4:3
rainbow1×Revelation 10:1
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowRevelation 4:3
Aligned rows2
Books represented1
Revelation2
Source forms
ἶρις2xirisRevelation 4:3, Revelation 10:1
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular2xRevelation 4:3, Revelation 10:1
Evidence Summary
Greek word. a rainbow ("iris")
Strong'sG2463
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms1 form2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
a rainbow ("iris")
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Revelation 4:3Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
ἶριςiriv
a rainbow
Read verseRevelation 10:1Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
ἶριςiriv
a rainbow
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms2Case patternNominative (2)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineRev 4:3 · Rev 10:12×
Word Origins
ἶρις is built from this root: