γάμος
wedding
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
7 distinct verses where G1062 appears in the Accusative case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 5 verses
- Matthew 22:2 γάμους n acc pl masc "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
- Matthew 22:3 γάμους n acc pl masc and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
- Matthew 22:4 γάμους n acc pl masc Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'
- Matthew 22:9 γάμους n acc pl masc Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
- Matthew 25:10 γάμους n acc pl masc While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
Luke 1 verse
John 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.
At its core, γαμος (gámos) means “wedding.” The word gravitates to Matthew (50%), then John and Luke. It turns up in 16 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “marriage” in the King James Version, “wedding banquet” (Berean Standard Bible) and “wedding feast” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. Dig into 16-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1062 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 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 16 distinct verses.
- Gospels 13 verses · 81%
- Johannine 5 verses · 31%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 13%
- Revelation 2 verses · 13%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 6%
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: Marriage 9×, Wedding 7×
- American Standard Version: Marriage 9×, Wedding 4×, Marriage feast 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wedding banquet 6×, Wedding 4×, Marriage 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wedding feast 8×, Wedding 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1062 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1062 across 17 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1062 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1062 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- a wedding or marriage festival, a wedding banquet, a wedding feast
- marriage, matrimony
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; nuptials : - marriage wedding.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1062 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γάμους gámous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 22:2 | 6 |
| γάμος gámos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 22:8 | 4 |
| γάμου gámou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 22:11 | 4 |
| γάμον gámon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 2:2 | 1 |
| γάμων gámōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Luke 12:36 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1062, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γαμος appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 2 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 29:22 γάμος
- Esther 1:5 γάμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1062) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 29:22 γάμος Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Esther 1:5 γάμος When these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast to all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
- Esther 2:18 γάμος Then the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the king.
- Esther 9:22 γάμος as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1062) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
