γογγύζω
to murmur
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
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, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 3 times (38%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 2 times (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, 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 G1111 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 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
John 4 verses
- John 6:41 Ἐγόγγυζον impf act ind 3pl The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
- John 6:43 γογγύζετε pres act impv 2pl Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.
- John 6:61 γογγύζουσιν pres act ind 3pl But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
- John 7:32 γογγύζοντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
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.
γογγυζω (gongýzō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to murmur.” John dominates its distribution — 4 of 7 verses. Spanning 7 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 20:11. Sharing its root, it stands alongside γογγυσμος and γογγυστης. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1111 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%
- Johannine 4 verses · 57%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 14%
- 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: Murmured 5×
- American Standard Version: Murmured 4×, Murmur 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Began to grumble 1×, Complained 1×, Do not complain 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Do 2×, Were murmuring 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1111 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G1111 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1111 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1111 across 10 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 murmur, mutter, grumble, say anything against in a low tone
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; to grumble : - murmur.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1111 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γογγύζετε gongýzete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | John 6:43 | 2 |
| ἐγόγγυζον egóngyzon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 20:11 | 2 |
| γογγύζοντος gongýzontos | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | John 7:32 | 1 |
| γογγύζουσιν gongýzousin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 6:61 | 1 |
| ἐγόγγυσαν egóngysan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 10:10 | 1 |
| Ἐγόγγυζον Egóngyzon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 6:41 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1111, 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 γογγυζω appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 6 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 17:3 γογγύζω
- Numbers 11:1 γογγύζω
- Judges 1:14 γογγύζω
- Psalms 58:16 γογγύζω
- Isaiah 29:24 γογγύζω
- Lamentations 3:39 γογγύζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1111) 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.
- Exodus 17:3 γογγύζω The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
- Numbers 11:1 γογγύζω The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
- Numbers 14:27 γογγύζω How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Numbers 14:29 γογγύζω your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
- Numbers 17:6 γογγύζω Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
- Numbers 17:20 γογγύζω
- Judges 1:14 γογγύζω It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, What would you?
- Psalms 58:16 γογγύζω
- Psalms 105:25 γογγύζω He turned their heart to hate his people, To conspire against his servants.
- Isaiah 29:24 γογγύζω They also who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.
- Isaiah 30:12 γογγύζω Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
- Lamentations 3:39 γογγύζω Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1111) 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.
