Bible word study

Haima (Strong’s G129): Meaning in the Bible

Haima (αἷμα) is the Greek word numbered G129 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as blood, literally (of men or animals), figuratively (the juice of grapes) or specially (the atoning blood of Christ); by implication, bloodshed, also kindred. In the King James Bible it is translated blood..

• Original wordαἷμα
• Transliterationhaîma
• Pronunciationhah'-ee-mah
• Strong’s numberG129
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. of uncertain derivation;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Haima appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Haima (G129) stands behind 100 English renderings in 92 verses across 14 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Hebrews (21), Revelation (19), Acts (12).

How the King James Bible renders Haima, by count

• blood93 of 100 (93 percent)
• the blood6 of 100 (6 percent)
• of1 of 100 (1 percent)

Three places to read Haima

• Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
• Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Haima in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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