γαμίσκω
to give in marriage
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 4 times (50%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (25%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1061 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 22:30 γαμίζονται pres pass ind 3pl For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
- Matthew 24:38 γαμίζοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
Mark 1 verse
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 17:27 ἐγαμίζοντο impf pass ind 3pl They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Luke 20:34 γαμίσκονται pres pass ind 3pl Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
- Luke 20:35 γαμίζονται pres pass ind 3pl But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to give in marriage” is the headline sense of the Greek verb γαμισκω (gamískō). First canonically at Matthew 22:30, it enters the text early. It turns up in 7 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 43% of its uses. From the same root come γαμος and γαμεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1061 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 86%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 43%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are given in marriage 1×
- American Standard Version: Are given in marriage 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be given in marriage 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are given in marriage 4×, Marrying 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1061 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1061 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1061 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1061 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- give in marriage
Word origin
Derived from γαμος (gámos) (G1062) — wedding.
From G1062 ; to espouse (a daughter to a husband): - give in marriage.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1061 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γαμίζονται gamízontai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 22:30 | 3 |
| γαμίζων gamízōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 7:38 | 2 |
| γαμίζοντες gamízontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:38 | 1 |
| γαμίσκονται gamískontai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 20:34 | 1 |
| ἐγαμίζοντο egamízonto | Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 17:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1061, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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