Original Word: κύων
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: kuón
Pronunciation: koo-ohn'
Phonetic Spelling: (koo'-ohn)
KJV: dog
NASB: dogs, dog
Word Origin: [a primary word]

1. a dog ("hound")
{literally or figuratively}

dog.

A primary word; a dog ("hound") (literally or figuratively) -- dog.

2965 kýōn – literally, a dog, scavenging canine; (figuratively) a spiritual predator who feeds off others.

[A loose dog was disdained in ancient times – viewed as a "mooch pooch" that ran about as a scavenger.]

Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
a dog
NASB Translation
dog (1), dogs (4).STRONGS NT 2965: κύων

κύων, κυνός; in secular authors of the common gender, in the N. T. masculine; Hebrew כֶּלֶב; a dog; properly: Luke 16:21; 2 Peter 2:22; metaphorically (in various (but always reproachful) senses; often so even in Homer) a man of impure mind, an impudent man (cf. Lightfoot on Phil. l. s.): Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15, in which last passage others less probably understand sodomites (like כִּלָבִים in Deuteronomy 23:18 (19)) (cf. B. D., under the word

Matthew 7:6 N-DMP
GRK: ἅγιον τοῖς κυσίν μηδὲ βάλητε
NAS: is holy to dogs, and do not throw
KJV: is holy unto the dogs, neither
INT: holy to the dogs nor cast

Luke 16:21 N-NMP
GRK: καὶ οἱ κύνες ἐρχόμενοι ἐπέλειχον
NAS: even the dogs were coming
KJV: moreover the dogs came
INT: even the dogs coming licked

Philippians 3:2 N-AMP
GRK: Βλέπετε τοὺς κύνας βλέπετε τοὺς
NAS: Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil
KJV: Beware of dogs, beware of evil
INT: beware of the dogs beware of the

2 Peter 2:22 N-NMS
GRK: ἀληθοῦς παροιμίας Κύων ἐπιστρέψας ἐπὶ
NAS: proverb, A DOG RETURNS
KJV: proverb, The dog [is] turned
INT: true proverb [The] dog having returned to

Revelation 22:15 N-NMP
GRK: ἔξω οἱ κύνες καὶ οἱ
NAS: Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers
KJV: For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers,
INT: But without [are] the dogs and the

Strong's Greek 2965
5 Occurrences

κύνας — 1 Occ.
κύνες — 2 Occ.
Κύων — 1 Occ.
κυσίν — 1 Occ.