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δίδωμι

to give

‘to give’ is one of 7 main senses fuller range ↓

G1325 Strong's Greek
dídōmi Transliteration
/did'-o-mee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 414 appearances

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About this entry

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διδωμι (dídōmi) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to give.” Its lexical range runs to 7 senses. With 377 verses in 22 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 4:9, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come δομα, δοσις and δοτης. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
adventure
Modern gloss
to give
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. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1325 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 →

377
distinct verses
The word appears in 377 distinct verses.
22 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 22 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:9
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:9.
Revelation 21:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:6.
#45
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 45 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 377 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 205 · 54%
  • Acts 34 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 70 · 19%
  • General Epistles 18 · 5%
  • Revelation 50 · 13%

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 377 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 205 verses · 54%
  • Johannine 121 verses · 32%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 88 verses · 23%
  • Pauline corpus 70 verses · 19%
  • Revelation 50 verses · 13%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 14 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 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: Give 84×, Gave 52×, Was given 20×
  • American Standard Version: Give 79×, Gave 52×, Was given 34×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Give 69×, Gave 44×, Was given 17×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Give 92×, Gave 35×, Was given 23×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1325 across 429 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Give” 84×
  • “Gave” 52×
  • “Was given” 20×
  • “Is given” 19×
  • “Given” 18×
  • “Hath given” 15×
  • “Giveth” 12×
  • “He gave” 12×
  • “Shall be given” 10×
  • “I will give” 9×
  • “Thou gavest” 8×
  • “Thou hast given” 8×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 67 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 2 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1325 across 426 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Give” 79×
  • “Gave” 52×
  • “Was given” 34×
  • “He gave” 17×
  • “Given” 14×
  • “Giveth” 12×
  • “Shall be given” 11×
  • “Hath given” 10×
  • “Is given” 10×
  • “Will give” 10×
  • “Thou hast given” 9×
  • “I will give” 8×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 72 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 G1325 across 403 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Give” 69×
  • “Gave” 44×
  • “Was given” 17×
  • “Given” 15×
  • “Has given” 15×
  • “Will be given” 14×
  • “Gives” 12×
  • “I will give” 10×
  • “Will give” 10×
  • “He gave” 9×
  • “You gave” 9×
  • “Grant” 8×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 84 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 G1325 across 472 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Give” 92×
  • “Gave” 35×
  • “Was given” 23×
  • “He gave” 20×
  • “I will give” 16×
  • “Will give” 15×
  • “It” 13×
  • “Has been given” 12×
  • “Will be given” 12×
  • “Has given” 11×
  • “Given” 10×
  • “Giving” 10×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 63 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


7 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order

The 7 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.

  1. to give
  2. to give something to someone
  3. to cause, profuse, give forth from one's self
  4. to appoint to an office
  5. to cause to come forth…
  6. to give one to someone as his own
  7. to commission

Word origin

Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an altern. in most of the tenses)

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 04:46,2

A prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternate in most of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application properly or by implication literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection): - adventure bestow bring forth commit deliver (up) give grant hinder make minister number offer have power put receive set shew smite (+ with the hand) strike (+ with the palm of the hand) suffer take utter yield.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 71 distinct written forms G1325 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἔδωκεν édōken Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 10:1 64
δοῦναι doûnai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 14:7 31
ἐδόθη edóthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 14:11 31
δώσω dṓsō Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 4:9 23
δώσει dṓsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 7:11 18
δοθήσεται dothḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 7:7 16
δότε dóte Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 10:8 14
δίδωσιν dídōsin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 3:34 11
δοὺς doùs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 26:26 10
δὸς dòs Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 6:11 10
δέδωκάς dédōkás Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 17:4 9
δέδωκεν dédōken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 3:35 9
δίδωμι dídōmi Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 4:6 9
ἐδίδου edídou Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 13:8 9
ἔδωκαν édōkan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 27:10 8
δέδοται dédotai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 13:11 6
δέδωκα dédōka Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 10:19 6
διδόναι didónai Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Matthew 7:11 6
δός dós Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:42 6
δῶμεν dō̂men Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Mark 12:14 6
δῷ dō̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 13:29 6
ἔδωκας édōkas Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 7:44 6
διδοὺς didoùs Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 6:33 5
δοθῆναι dothē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Matthew 14:9 5
δέδωκέν dédōkén Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 5:36 4
δεδομένον dedoménon Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter John 3:27 4
δοθεῖσάν dotheîsán Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Romans 15:15 4
δώσουσιν dṓsousin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 24:24 4
δῴη dṓē Verb, Aorist, Active, Optative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 15:5 4
δίδοται dídotai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 8:18 3
διδόντος didóntos Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 14:3 3
δοθείσης dotheísēs Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Romans 12:3 3
δοθεῖσαν dotheîsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Romans 12:6 3
δοθῇ dothē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 13:11 3
δῶτε dō̂te Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 7:6 3
ἐδώκατέ edṓkaté Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 25:35 3
ἔδωκάς édōkás Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 19:23 3
διδόντα didónta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 Thessalonians 4:8 2
δώῃ dṓē Verb, Aorist, Active, Optative, 3rd person, Singular 2 Timothy 2:25 2
δίδοτε dídote Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 6:38 2
δίδου dídou Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 6:30 2
δεδώκει dedṓkei Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular, Attic form Mark 14:44 2
διδόντες didóntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:12 2
διδόντι didónti Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 Corinthians 15:57 2
δοῦναί doûnaí Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Luke 11:7 2
δόντα dónta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:8 2
δόντος dóntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:18 2
δώσεις dṓseis Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 2:27 2
ἐδόθησαν edóthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 8:2 2
δέδωκας dédōkas Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 17:2 1
δίδωσίν dídōsín Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 6:37 1
δεδομένην dedoménēn Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 2 Corinthians 8:1 1
δεδώκεισαν dedṓkeisan Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural, Attic form John 11:57 1
διδόασιν didóasin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 17:13 1
διδόμενον didómenon Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Luke 22:19 1
διδῶ didō̂ Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular Revelation 3:9 1
δοθέντος dothéntos Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Romans 5:5 1
δοθείσῃ dotheísē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 Corinthians 1:4 1
δοθεῖσα dotheîsa Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 6:2 1
δούς doús Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 20:2 1

The 60 most common forms are shown; 11 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1325, 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

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word διδωμι appears 1,678 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,512 verses in 37 books.

1,678
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1,512
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
37 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1325) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,512. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

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