γεμίζω
to fill
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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (22%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1072 appears — 8 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.
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 4:37 γεμίζεσθαι pres pass inf There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
- Mark 15:36 γεμίσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
Luke 2 verses
John 2 verses
- John 2:7 γεμίσατε ἐγέμισαν aor act impv 2pl aor act ind 3pl Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.
- John 6:13 ἐγέμισαν aor act ind 3pl So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 8:5 ἐγέμισεν aor act ind 3sg The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.
- Revelation 15:8 ἐγεμίσθη aor pass ind 3sg The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
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, γεμιζω (gemízō) means “to fill.” Scripture first uses it in Mark 4:37. With 8 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Mark (25% of all occurrences). Sharing its root, it stands alongside γεμω and γομος. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1072 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 75%
- Johannine 4 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 25%
- Revelation 2 verses · 25%
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: Filled 3×, Full 2×
- American Standard Version: Fill 1×, Filled 1×, Filling 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Filled 3×, Fill 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Filled 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1072 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1072 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1072 across 9 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1072 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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.
- to fill, fill full
Word origin
Derived from γεμω (gémō) (G1073) — to be full.
Transitive from G1073 ; to fill entirely : - fill (be) full.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G1072 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐγέμισαν egémisan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 2:7 | 2 |
| γεμίζεσθαι gemízesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Mark 4:37 | 1 |
| γεμίσαι gemísai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Luke 15:16 | 1 |
| γεμίσας gemísas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 15:36 | 1 |
| γεμίσατε gemísate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | John 2:7 | 1 |
| γεμισθῇ gemisthē̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 14:23 | 1 |
| ἐγέμισεν egémisen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 8:5 | 1 |
| ἐγεμίσθη egemísthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 15:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1072, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γεμιζω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 45:17 γεμίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1072) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1072) 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.
