Bible word study

Aletheia (Strong’s G225): Meaning in the Bible

Aletheia (ἀλήθεια) is the Greek word numbered G225 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as truth. In the King James Bible it is translated true, X truly, truth, verity..

• Original wordἀλήθεια
• Transliterationalḗtheia
• Pronunciational-ay'-thi-a
• Strong’s numberG225
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G227;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Aletheia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Aletheia (G225) stands behind 110 English renderings in 99 verses across 23 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in John (25), 1 John (9), Romans (8).

How the King James Bible renders Aletheia, by count

• truth89 of 110 (81 percent)
• the truth10 of 110 (9 percent)
• in truth2 of 110 (2 percent)
• of truth2 of 110 (2 percent)
• unto the truth2 of 110 (2 percent)
• a truth1 of 110 (1 percent)

Three places to read Aletheia

• Matthew 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
• Romans 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
• 1 Timothy 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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 Aletheia 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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