δίδωμι
to give
‘to give’ is one of 7 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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Pluperfect
- A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Optative
- Expresses a wish or a remote possibility.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
7 verses where G1325 appears in the Present tense in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
- Acts 3:6 δίδωμι pres act ind 1sg But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!"
- Acts 7:25 δίδωσιν pres act ind 3sg He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
- Acts 8:18 δίδοται pres pass ind 3sg Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,
- Acts 14:3 διδόντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
- Acts 14:17 διδοὺς pres act ptcp nom sg masc Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
- Acts 17:25 διδοὺς pres act ptcp nom sg masc neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
- Acts 20:35 διδόναι pres act inf In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- to give
- to give something to someone
- to cause, profuse, give forth from one's self
- to appoint to an office
- to cause to come forth…
- to give one to someone as his own
- to commission
Word origin
Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an altern. in most of the tenses)
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.
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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 1:29 δίδωμι
- Exodus 2:9 δίδωμι
- Leviticus 5:16 δίδωμι
- Numbers 3:9 δίδωμι
- Deuteronomy 1:8 δίδωμι
- Joshua 1:2 δίδωμι
- Judges 1:2 δίδωμι
- Ruth 1:6 δίδωμι
- 1 Samuel 1:4 δίδωμι
- 2 Samuel 4:8 δίδωμι
- 1 Kings 1:48 δίδωμι
- 2 Kings 3:10 δίδωμι
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.
- Genesis 1:29 δίδωμι God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 3:6 δίδωμι When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:12 δίδωμι The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 4:12 δίδωμι From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 9:2 δίδωμι The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 9:3 δίδωμι Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Genesis 9:12 δίδωμι God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 12:7 δίδωμι Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 13:15 δίδωμι for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Genesis 13:17 δίδωμι Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you."
- Genesis 14:20 δίδωμι and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- Genesis 14:21 δίδωμι The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
- Genesis 15:2 δίδωμι Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
- Genesis 15:3 δίδωμι Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
- Genesis 15:7 δίδωμι He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
- Genesis 15:18 δίδωμι In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 16:3 δίδωμι Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Genesis 16:5 δίδωμι Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
- Genesis 17:8 δίδωμι I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
- Genesis 17:16 δίδωμι I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
- Genesis 17:20 δίδωμι As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
- Genesis 18:7 δίδωμι Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
- Genesis 20:14 δίδωμι Abimelech took sheep and oxen, men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife to him.
- Genesis 20:16 δίδωμι To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."
- Genesis 21:14 δίδωμι Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:27 δίδωμι Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- Genesis 23:4 δίδωμι "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
- Genesis 23:9 δίδωμι that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place."
- Genesis 23:11 δίδωμι "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
- Genesis 24:7 δίδωμι Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:32 δίδωμι The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
- Genesis 24:35 δίδωμι Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 24:36 δίδωμι Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
- Genesis 24:41 δίδωμι Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
- Genesis 24:53 δίδωμι The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
- Genesis 25:5 δίδωμι Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
- Genesis 25:6 δίδωμι but to the sons of the concubines who Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
- Genesis 25:34 δίδωμι Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 26:3 δίδωμι Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
- Genesis 26:4 δίδωμι I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Genesis 27:17 δίδωμι She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:28 δίδωμι God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
- Genesis 28:4 δίδωμι and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
- Genesis 28:13 δίδωμι Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
- Genesis 28:20 δίδωμι Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
- Genesis 28:22 δίδωμι then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
- Genesis 29:19 δίδωμι Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
- Genesis 29:24 δίδωμι Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
- Genesis 29:26 δίδωμι Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born.
- Genesis 29:27 δίδωμι Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1325) 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.
