Bible word study

Stoma (Strong’s G4750): Meaning in the Bible

Stoma (στόμα) is the Greek word numbered G4750 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as the mouth (as if a gash in the face); by implication, language (and its relations); figuratively, an opening (in the earth); specially, the front or edge (of a weapon). In the King James Bible it is translated edge, face, mouth..

• Original wordστόμα
• Transliterationstóma
• Pronunciationstom'-a
• Strong’s numberG4750
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. probably strengthened from a presumed derivative of the base of G5114;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Stoma appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Stoma (G4750) stands behind 83 English renderings in 72 verses across 17 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Revelation (24), Matthew (13), Acts (12).

How the King James Bible renders Stoma, by count

• mouth60 of 83 (72 percent)
• the mouth5 of 83 (6 percent)
• face4 of 83 (5 percent)
• mouths4 of 83 (5 percent)
• of3 of 83 (4 percent)
• of the mouth3 of 83 (4 percent)

Three places to read Stoma

• Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
• Acts 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
• James 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

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 Stoma 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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