ἵππος
hippos
horse
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word ἵππος (hippos) is a noun that refers to a horse. It is used 17 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in the ancient Greek culture and the biblical narrative. As a term for a horse, ἵππος likely encompasses not only the animal itself but also its uses, such as for transportation, warfare, and labor. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that horses played a significant role in the lives of ancient Greeks and the people of the biblical world. Its use in various contexts, including sermons, parables, and historical accounts, highlights the importance of horses as a symbol of power, strength, and majesty. The word's significance extends beyond its literal meaning, as it often serves as a metaphor for human qualities, such as pride, arrogance, and wildness.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
17 total occurrences across the text
When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.
James 3:3Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
Revelation 6:2And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation 6:4Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.
Revelation 6:8And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
Revelation 9:7The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.
Revelation 9:9They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
Revelation 9:17Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
Revelation 9:17Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
Revelation 9:19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
Revelation 14:20The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
Revelation 18:13and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
Revelation 19:11I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
Revelation 19:14The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
Revelation 19:18that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”
Revelation 19:19I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
Revelation 19:21The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.