γράφω
to write
‘to write’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- 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.
Every verse where G1125 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 18 distinct verses. 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.
1 Corinthians
- 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."
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, 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
About this word
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.
