διηγέομαι
to recount
‘to recount’ is one of 2 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.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
5 distinct verses where G1334 appears in the Aorist tense, across 3 books. 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.
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 5:16 διηγήσαντο aor mid.dep ind 3pl Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.
- Mark 9:9 διηγήσωνται aor mid.dep subj 3pl As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 9:27 διηγήσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
- Acts 12:17 διηγήσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.
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.
“to recount” is the headline sense of the Greek verb διηγεομαι (diēgéomai). Scripture first uses it in Mark 5:16. With 8 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1334 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 63%
- Gospels 4 verses · 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 13%
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: Declared 2×, Told 2×
- American Standard Version: Declared 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Described 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Describe 1×, Described 1×, Explained 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1334 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1334 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G1334 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1334 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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 lead or carry a narration through to the end
- set forth, recount, relate in full, describe
Word origin
Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1334 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διηγήσαντο diēgḗsanto | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 5:16 | 2 |
| διηγήσατο diēgḗsato | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 9:27 | 2 |
| διηγήσεται diēgḗsetai | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 8:33 | 1 |
| διηγήσωνται diēgḗsōntai | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 9:9 | 1 |
| διηγούμενον diēgoúmenon | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 11:32 | 1 |
| διηγοῦ diēgoû | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 8:39 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1334, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- διαβαινω diabaínō G1224 to pass through
- διαβαλλω diabállō G1225 to slander
- διαβεβαιοομαι diabebaióomai G1226 to affirm strongly
- διαβλεπω diablépō G1227 to look through
- διαγγελλω diangéllō G1229 to proclaim
- διαγινομαι diagínomai G1230 to continue
- διαγινωσκω diaginṓskō G1231 to ascertain
- διαγογγυζω diagongýzō G1234 to murmur
- διαγρηγορεω diagrēgoréō G1235 to watch through
- διαγω diágō G1236 to lead through
- διαδεχομαι diadéchomai G1237 to receive in succession
- διαδημα diádēma G1238 diadem
- διαδιδωμι diadídōmi G1239 to distribute
- διαζωννυμι diazṓnnymi G1241 to gird around
- διαιρεω diairéō G1244 to divide
- διακαθαριζω diakatharízō G1245 to cleanse thoroughly
- διακατελεγχομαι diakatelénchomai G1246 to confute
- διακουομαι diakoúomai G1251 to hear fully
- διακρινω diakrínō G1252 to distinguish
- διακωλυω diakōlýō G1254 to hinder
- διαλαλεω dialaléō G1255 to converse
- διαλεγομαι dialégomai G1256 to discuss
- διαλειπω dialeípō G1257 to intermit
- διαλλασσω diallássō G1259 to reconcile
+62 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 89 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διηγεομαι appears 54 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 53 verses in 18 books.
- 54
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 53
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:66 διαἡγέομαι
- Exodus 10:2 διαἡγέομαι
- Numbers 13:27 διαἡγέομαι
- Joshua 2:23 διαἡγέομαι
- Judges 5:11 διαἡγέομαι
- 1 Samuel 11:5 διαἡγέομαι
- 1 Kings 13:11 διαἡγέομαι
- 2 Kings 8:4 διαἡγέομαι
- 1 Chronicles 16:9 διαἡγέομαι
- Esther 1:17 διαἡγέομαι
- Job 12:8 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 9:2 διαἡγέομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1334) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 53. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:66 διαἡγέομαι The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
- Genesis 29:13 διαἡγέομαι It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
- Genesis 37:9 διαἡγέομαι He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
- Genesis 40:8 διαἡγέομαι They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
- Genesis 40:9 διαἡγέομαι The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
- Genesis 41:8 διαἡγέομαι It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:12 διαἡγέομαι There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
- Exodus 10:2 διαἡγέομαι and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
- Exodus 18:8 διαἡγέομαι Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
- Exodus 24:3 διαἡγέομαι Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
- Numbers 13:27 διαἡγέομαι They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Joshua 2:23 διαἡγέομαι Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
- Judges 5:11 διαἡγέομαι Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
- Judges 6:13 διαἡγέομαι Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
- 1 Samuel 11:5 διαἡγέομαι Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, What ails the people that they weep? They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
- 1 Kings 13:11 διαἡγέομαι Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.
- 2 Kings 8:4 διαἡγέομαι Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.
- 2 Kings 8:6 διαἡγέομαι When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
- 1 Chronicles 16:9 διαἡγέομαι Sing to him, sing praises to him; Talk you of all his marvelous works.
- Esther 1:17 διαἡγέομαι For this deed of the queen will come abroad to all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.
- Esther 6:13 διαἡγέομαι Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.
- Esther 10:3 διαἡγέομαι For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
- Job 12:8 διαἡγέομαι Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
- Psalms 9:2 διαἡγέομαι I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
- Psalms 18:2 διαἡγέομαι Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalms 21:23 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 25:7 διαἡγέομαι Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, For your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
- Psalms 47:13 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 47:14 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 49:16 διαἡγέομαι Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased.
- Psalms 54:18 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 63:6 διαἡγέομαι When I remember you on my bed, And think about you in the night watches.
- Psalms 65:16 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 72:15 διαἡγέομαι They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.
- Psalms 74:3 διαἡγέομαι Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
- Psalms 77:3 διαἡγέομαι I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
- Psalms 86:6 διαἡγέομαι Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
- Psalms 87:12 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 104:2 διαἡγέομαι He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
- Psalms 117:17 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 118:85 διαἡγέομαι
- Psalms 144:5 διαἡγέομαι Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
- Psalms 144:6 διαἡγέομαι Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
- Isaiah 43:21 διαἡγέομαι the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
- Isaiah 53:8 διαἡγέομαι By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?
- Jeremiah 23:27 διαἡγέομαι who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
- Jeremiah 23:28 διαἡγέομαι The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:32 διαἡγέομαι Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 12:16 διαἡγέομαι But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 17:2 διαἡγέομαι Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1334) 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.
