Bible word study

Orge (Strong’s G3709): Meaning in the Bible

Orge (ὀργή) is the Greek word numbered G3709 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), i.e. (by analogy), violent passion (ire, or (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment. In the King James Bible it is translated anger, indignation, vengeance, wrath..

• Original wordὀργή
• Transliterationorgḗ
• Pronunciationor-gay'
• Strong’s numberG3709
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G3713;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Orge appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Orge (G3709) stands behind 36 English renderings in 34 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Romans (12), Revelation (6), Ephesians (3).

How the King James Bible renders Orge, by count

• wrath31 of 36 (86 percent)
• anger3 of 36 (8 percent)
• indignation1 of 36 (3 percent)
• vengeance1 of 36 (3 percent)

Three places to read Orge

• Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• 1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 Orge 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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