γράφω
to write
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G1125
Strong's Greek
gráphō
Transliteration
/graf'-o/
Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT
190
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Thayer Definition
1. to write, with reference to the form of the letters
a. to delineate (or form) letters on a tablet, parchment, paper, or other material
2. to write, with reference to the contents of the writing
a. to express in written characters
b. to commit to writing (things not to be forgotten), write down, record
c. used of those things which stand written in the sacred books (of the OT)
d. to write to one, i.e. by writing (in a written epistle) to give information, directions
3. to fill with writing
4. to draw up in writing, compose
Strong's concordance entry
A primary verb; to grave especially to write ; figuratively to describe : - describe write (-ing -ten).
Where this word appears
See every Perfect-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
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- 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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
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).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 32 distinct
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 66 times (35%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 19 times (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 14 times (7%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 13 times (7%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 12 times (6%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 8 times (4%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 7 times (4%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 6 times (3%)
+24 more forms (45 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 190 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1125 appears — 180 distinct verses across 22 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 10 verses
- Matthew 2:5 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written through the prophet,
- Matthew 4:4 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
- Matthew 4:6 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"
- Matthew 4:7 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"
- Matthew 4:10 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'"
- Matthew 11:10 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'
- Matthew 21:13 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
- Matthew 26:24 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
- Matthew 26:31 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
- Matthew 27:37 γεγραμμένην perf pass ptcp acc sg fem They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Mark 10 verses
- Mark 1:2 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.
- Mark 7:6 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
- Mark 9:12 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
- Mark 9:13 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
- Mark 10:4 γράψαι aor act inf They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
- Mark 10:5 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
- Mark 11:17 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
- Mark 12:19 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
- Mark 14:21 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
- Mark 14:27 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'
Luke 20 verses
- Luke 1:3 γράψαι aor act inf it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
- Luke 1:63 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.
- Luke 2:23 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),
- Luke 3:4 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
- Luke 4:4 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"
- Luke 4:8 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'"
- Luke 4:10 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you;'
- Luke 4:17 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
- Luke 7:27 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.'
- Luke 10:26 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"
- Luke 16:6 γράψον aor act impv 2sg He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
- Luke 16:7 γράψον aor act impv 2sg Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
- Luke 18:31 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp nom pl neut He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
- Luke 19:46 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
- Luke 20:17 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
- Luke 20:28 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
- Luke 21:22 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp acc pl neut For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
- Luke 22:37 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg neut For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.' For that which concerns me has an end."
- Luke 24:44 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp acc pl neut He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
- Luke 24:46 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
John 19 verses
- John 1:46 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
- John 2:17 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
- John 5:46 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
- John 6:31 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
- John 6:45 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- John 8:6 ἔγραφεν impf act ind 3sg They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
- John 8:8 ἔγραφεν impf act ind 3sg Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
- John 8:17 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
- John 10:34 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
- John 12:14 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
- John 12:16 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp nom pl neut His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
- John 15:25 γεγραμμένος perf pass ptcp nom sg masc But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
- John 19:19 ἔγραψεν γεγραμμένον aor act ind 3sg perf pass ptcp nom sg neut Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- John 19:20 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
- John 19:21 γράφε pres act impv 2sg The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"
- John 19:22 γέγραφα γέγραφα perf act ind 1sg perf act ind 1sg Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
- John 20:30 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp nom pl neut Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
- John 20:31 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
- John 21:24 γράψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
Acts 11 verses
- Acts 1:20 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate, Let no one dwell therein,' and, 'Let another take his office.'
- Acts 7:42 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Acts 13:29 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp acc pl neut When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
- Acts 13:33 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'
- Acts 15:15 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
- Acts 15:23 γράψαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
- Acts 18:27 ἔγραψαν aor act ind 3pl When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
- Acts 23:5 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Paul said, "I didn't know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'"
- Acts 23:25 γράψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He wrote a letter like this:
- Acts 24:14 γεγραμμένοις perf pass ptcp dat pl neut But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
- Acts 25:26 γράψαι γράψω aor act inf aor act subj 1sg Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
Romans 21 verses
- Romans 1:17 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
- Romans 2:24 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
- Romans 3:4 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment."
- Romans 3:10 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
- Romans 4:17 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 4:23 ἐγράφη aor pass ind 3sg Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
- Romans 8:36 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
- Romans 9:13 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
- Romans 9:33 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
- Romans 10:5 γράφει pres act ind 3sg For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
- Romans 10:15 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
- Romans 11:8 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
- Romans 11:26 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, And he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- Romans 12:19 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
- Romans 14:11 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"
- Romans 15:3 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
- Romans 15:4 ἐγράφη aor pass ind 3sg For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Romans 15:9 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, And sing to your name."
- Romans 15:15 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
- Romans 15:21 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."
- Romans 16:22 γράψας aor act ptcp nom sg masc I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 18 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:19 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
- 1 Corinthians 1:31 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
- 1 Corinthians 2:9 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, Which didn't enter into the heart of man, These God has prepared for those who love him."
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
- 1 Corinthians 4:6 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
- 1 Corinthians 4:14 γράφω pres act ind 1sg I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
- 1 Corinthians 5:9 Ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
- 1 Corinthians 7:1 ἐγράψατε aor act ind 2pl Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
- 1 Corinthians 9:10 ἐγράφη aor pass ind 3sg or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
- 1 Corinthians 9:15 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 ἐγράφη aor pass ind 3sg Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
- 1 Corinthians 14:21 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 γράφω pres act ind 1sg If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 15:54 γεγραμμένος perf pass ptcp nom sg masc But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
2 Corinthians 10 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:13 γράφομεν pres act ind 1pl For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;
- 2 Corinthians 2:3 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
- 2 Corinthians 2:4 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
- 2 Corinthians 2:9 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
- 2 Corinthians 4:13 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg neut But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke." We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
- 2 Corinthians 7:12 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
- 2 Corinthians 8:15 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."
- 2 Corinthians 9:1 γράφειν pres act inf It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
- 2 Corinthians 9:9 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."
- 2 Corinthians 13:10 γράφω pres act ind 1sg For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
Galatians 6 verses
- Galatians 1:20 γράφω pres act ind 1sg Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.
- Galatians 3:10 γέγραπται γεγραμμένοις perf pass ind 3sg perf pass ptcp dat pl neut For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
- Galatians 3:13 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
- Galatians 4:22 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.
- Galatians 4:27 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."
- Galatians 6:11 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
Philippians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9 γράφειν pres act inf But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1 γράφεσθαι pres pass inf But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Philemon 2 verses
- Philemon 1:19 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
- Philemon 1:21 ἔγραψά aor act ind 1sg Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 2 verses
- 1 Peter 1:16 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
- 1 Peter 5:12 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
2 Peter 2 verses
- 2 Peter 3:1 γράφω pres act ind 1sg This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
- 2 Peter 3:15 ἔγραψεν aor act ind 3sg Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
1 John 10 verses
- 1 John 1:4 γράφομεν pres act ind 1pl And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
- 1 John 2:1 γράφω pres act ind 1sg My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
- 1 John 2:7 γράφω pres act ind 1sg Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
- 1 John 2:8 γράφω pres act ind 1sg Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
- 1 John 2:12 Γράφω pres act ind 1sg I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
- 1 John 2:13 γράφω γράφω ἔγραψα pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 1sg aor act ind 1sg I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
- 1 John 2:14 ἔγραψα ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg aor act ind 1sg I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
- 1 John 2:21 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
- 1 John 2:26 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
- 1 John 5:13 ἔγραψα aor act ind 1sg These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
2 John 2 verses
- 2 John 1:5 γράφων pres act ptcp nom sg masc Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
- 2 John 1:12 γράφειν pres act inf Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
3 John 2 verses
Jude 1 verse
Revelation 28 verses
- Revelation 1:3 γεγραμμένα perf pass ptcp acc pl neut Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
- Revelation 1:11 γράψον aor act impv 2sg saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
- Revelation 1:19 γράψον aor act impv 2sg Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;
- Revelation 2:1 γράψον aor act impv 2sg To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:
- Revelation 2:8 γράψον aor act impv 2sg "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
- Revelation 2:12 γράψον aor act impv 2sg "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
- Revelation 2:17 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
- Revelation 2:18 γράψον aor act impv 2sg "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
- Revelation 3:1 γράψον aor act impv 2sg "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
- Revelation 3:7 γράψον aor act impv 2sg "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
- Revelation 3:12 γράψω fut act ind 1sg He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Revelation 3:14 γράψον aor act impv 2sg "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:
- Revelation 5:1 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg neut I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
- Revelation 10:4 γράφειν γράψῃς pres act inf aor act subj 2sg When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them."
- Revelation 13:8 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
- Revelation 14:1 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg neut I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- Revelation 14:13 γράψον aor act impv 2sg I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
- Revelation 17:5 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp nom sg neut And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
- Revelation 17:8 γέγραπται perf pass ind 3sg The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
- Revelation 19:9 γράψον aor act impv 2sg He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."
- Revelation 19:12 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg neut His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.
- Revelation 19:16 γεγραμμένον perf pass ptcp acc sg neut He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
- Revelation 20:12 γεγραμμένων perf pass ptcp gen pl neut I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Revelation 20:15 γεγραμμένος perf pass ptcp nom sg masc If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
- Revelation 21:5 γράψον aor act impv 2sg He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
- Revelation 21:27 γεγραμμένοι perf pass ptcp nom pl masc There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
- Revelation 22:18 γεγραμμένας perf pass ptcp acc pl fem I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
- Revelation 22:19 γεγραμμένων perf pass ptcp gen pl neut If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
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At its core, γραφω (gráphō) means “to write.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Spanning 180 verses in 22 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 2:5. Sharing its root, it stands alongside γραμμα, γραπτος and χαραξ. Dig into 180-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
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Modern gloss
to write
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's G1125 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 →
- 180
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 180 distinct verses.
- 22 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 22 of 27 New Testament books.
- #85
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 85 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 180 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 28 verses 16%
- Romans 21 verses 12%
- Luke 20 verses 11%
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 180 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 62 verses · 34%
- Johannine 61 verses · 34%
- Gospels 59 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 31 verses · 17%
- Revelation 28 verses · 16%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 19 verses · 11%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 1%
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: Is written 67×, Write 29×, Written 25×
- American Standard Version: Is written 61×, Write 33×, Written 23×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is written 66×, Write 28×, Written 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is written 58×, Write 29×, Written 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1125 across 202 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1125 across 199 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 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 G1125 across 186 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 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 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1125 across 204 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 24 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 4 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.
- to write, with reference to the form of the letters
- to write, with reference to the contents of the writing
- to fill with writing
- to draw up in writing, compose
Word origin
Origin: a root word
A primary verb; to grave especially to write ; figuratively to describe : - describe write (-ing -ten).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 32 distinct written forms G1125 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1125, 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 γραφω appears 217 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 205 verses in 23 books.
- 217
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 205
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 24:4 γράφω
- Numbers 5:23 γράφω
- Deuteronomy 4:13 γράφω
- Joshua 1:8 γράφω
- Judges 8:14 γράφω
- 1 Samuel 10:25 γράφω
- 2 Samuel 1:18 γράφω
- 1 Kings 2:3 γράφω
- 2 Kings 1:18 γράφω
- 1 Chronicles 4:41 γράφω
- 2 Chronicles 9:29 γράφω
- Ezra 3:2 γράφω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1125) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 205. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 24:4 γράφω Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 24:12 γράφω Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
- Exodus 31:18 γράφω He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.
- Exodus 32:15 γράφω Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
- Exodus 32:32 γράφω Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
- Exodus 34:1 γράφω Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Exodus 34:27 γράφω Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
- Exodus 34:28 γράφω He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Exodus 36:37 γράφω He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
- Numbers 5:23 γράφω "The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
- Numbers 33:2 γράφω Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
- Deuteronomy 4:13 γράφω He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 5:22 γράφω These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 6:9 γράφω You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 9:10 γράφω Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
- Deuteronomy 10:2 γράφω I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
- Deuteronomy 10:4 γράφω He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 11:20 γράφω You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates;
- Deuteronomy 17:18 γράφω It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
- Deuteronomy 24:1 γράφω When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Deuteronomy 24:3 γράφω If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
- Deuteronomy 27:3 γράφω and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Deuteronomy 27:8 γράφω You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 γράφω If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
- Deuteronomy 28:61 γράφω Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 29:19 γράφω and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 γράφω Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Deuteronomy 29:26 γράφω and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
- Deuteronomy 30:10 γράφω if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 31:9 γράφω Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:19 γράφω Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:22 γράφω So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:24 γράφω It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
- Deuteronomy 32:44 γράφω Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Joshua 1:8 γράφω This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Joshua 9:2 γράφω that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
- Joshua 18:9 γράφω The men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
- Joshua 23:6 γράφω Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
- Joshua 24:26 γράφω Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
- Judges 8:14 γράφω He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders of it, seventy-seven men.
- 1 Samuel 10:25 γράφω Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
- 2 Samuel 1:18 γράφω (and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the song of] the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
- 2 Samuel 11:14 γράφω It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
- 2 Samuel 11:15 γράφω He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
- 1 Kings 2:3 γράφω and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
- 1 Kings 6:29 γράφω He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
- 1 Kings 8:53 γράφω For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 11:41 γράφω Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
- 1 Kings 14:9 γράφω but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:
- 1 Kings 15:7 γράφω The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1125) 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.
