δοκέω
to think
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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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
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”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 25 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 20 times (32%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 9 times (15%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 4 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (3%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (3%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (3%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (3%)
+17 more forms (18 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 62 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1380 appears — 61 distinct verses across 11 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 3:9 δόξητε aor act subj 2pl Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
- Matthew 6:7 δοκοῦσιν pres act ind 3pl In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
- Matthew 17:25 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
- Matthew 18:12 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
- Matthew 21:28 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
- Matthew 22:17 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
- Matthew 22:42 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "Of David."
- Matthew 24:44 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
- Matthew 26:53 δοκεῖς pres act ind 2sg Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
- Matthew 26:66 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 6:49 ἔδοξαν aor act ind 3pl but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;
- Mark 10:42 δοκοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Luke 10 verses
- Luke 1:3 ἔδοξε aor act ind 3sg 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 8:18 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."
- Luke 10:36 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
- Luke 12:40 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
- Luke 12:51 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
- Luke 13:2 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
- Luke 13:4 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
- Luke 19:11 δοκεῖν pres act inf As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.
- Luke 22:24 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
- Luke 24:37 ἐδόκουν impf act ind 3pl But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
John 8 verses
- John 5:39 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
- John 5:45 δοκεῖτε pres act impv 2pl "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
- John 11:13 ἔδοξαν aor act ind 3pl Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
- John 11:31 δόξαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
- John 11:56 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"
- John 13:29 ἐδόκουν impf act ind 3pl For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
- John 16:2 δόξῃ aor act subj 3sg They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
- John 20:15 δοκοῦσα pres act ptcp nom sg fem Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
Acts 8 verses
- Acts 12:9 ἐδόκει impf act ind 3sg And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
- Acts 15:22 ἔδοξε aor act ind 3sg Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
- Acts 15:25 ἔδοξεν aor act ind 3sg it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
- Acts 15:28 ἔδοξεν aor act ind 3sg For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
- Acts 17:18 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
- Acts 25:27 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."
- Acts 26:9 ἔδοξα aor act ind 1sg "I myself most assuredly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Acts 27:13 δόξαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.
1 Corinthians 9 verses
- 1 Corinthians 3:18 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9 δοκῶ pres act ind 1sg For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
- 1 Corinthians 7:40 δοκῶ pres act ind 1sg But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 8:2 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
- 1 Corinthians 10:12 δοκῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
- 1 Corinthians 11:16 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 12:22 δοκοῦντα pres act ptcp nom pl neut No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
- 1 Corinthians 12:23 δοκοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg 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.
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 10:9 δόξω aor act subj 1sg that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
- 2 Corinthians 11:16 δόξῃ aor act subj 3sg I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
- 2 Corinthians 12:19 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
Galatians 4 verses
- Galatians 2:2 δοκοῦσιν pres act ptcp dat pl masc I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
- Galatians 2:6 δοκούντων δοκοῦντες pres act ptcp gen pl masc pres act ptcp nom pl masc But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
- Galatians 2:9 δοκοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
- Galatians 6:3 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Philippians 1 verse
Hebrews 4 verses
- Hebrews 4:1 δοκῇ pres act subj 3sg Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
- Hebrews 10:29 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Hebrews 12:10 δοκοῦν pres act ptcp acc sg neut For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
- Hebrews 12:11 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
James 2 verses
- James 1:26 δοκεῖ pres act ind 3sg If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
- James 4:5 δοκεῖτε pres act ind 2pl Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
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.
The Greek verb δοκεω centers on the idea of “to think.” Where the King James Version says “think,” newer translations reach for “do you think” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 61 verses across 11 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. Debuting at Matthew 3:9, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. 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 G1380 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 →
- 61
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 61 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #262
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 262 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 61 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 10 verses 16%
- Luke 10 verses 16%
- 1 Corinthians 9 verses 15%
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 61 distinct verses.
- Gospels 30 verses · 49%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 18 verses · 30%
- Pauline corpus 17 verses · 28%
- Johannine 8 verses · 13%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 3%
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: Think 10×, Thought 5×, Seem 4×
- American Standard Version: Think 10×, Think ye 4×, Thinketh 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Do you think 7×, Think 6×, Thinks 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Think 13×, Do 8×, Do you think 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1380 across 66 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 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 G1380 across 63 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1380 across 62 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 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 G1380 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 3 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 be of opinion, think, suppose
- to seem, to be accounted, reputed
- it seems to me
Word origin
Derived from δεικνυω (deiknýō) (G1166) — to show.
A prolonged form of a primary verb δόκω dokō (used only as an alternate in certain tenses; compare the base of G1166 ); of the same meaning; to think ; by implication to seem (truthfully or uncertainly): - be accounted (of own) please (-ure) be of reputation seem (good) suppose think trow.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 24 distinct written forms G1380 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 G1380, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δοκεω appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 25 verses in 8 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 25
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:14 δοκέω
- Exodus 25:2 δοκέω
- Joshua 9:25 δοκέω
- Esther 1:19 δοκέω
- Job 1:21 δοκέω
- Proverbs 2:10 δοκέω
- Isaiah 4:2 δοκέω
- Daniel 4:29 δοκέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1380) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:14 δοκέω Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 38:15 δοκέω When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
- Exodus 25:2 δοκέω "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
- Exodus 35:21 δοκέω They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 35:22 δοκέω They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, ear-rings, signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
- Exodus 35:26 δοκέω All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair.
- Joshua 9:25 δοκέω Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
- Esther 1:19 δοκέω If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it not be altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
- Esther 3:9 δοκέω If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
- Esther 5:2 δοκέω It was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter.
- Esther 8:5 δοκέω She said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces:
- Esther 8:8 δοκέω Write you also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
- Job 1:21 δοκέω He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
- Job 15:21 δοκέω A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
- Job 20:7 δοκέω Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
- Job 20:22 δοκέω In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
- Proverbs 2:10 δοκέω For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
- Proverbs 14:12 δοκέω There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
- Proverbs 16:21 δοκέω The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
- Proverbs 17:28 δοκέω Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
- Proverbs 26:12 δοκέω Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 27:14 δοκέω He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be taken as a curse by him.
- Proverbs 28:24 δοκέω Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
- Isaiah 4:2 δοκέω In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
- Daniel 4:29 δοκέω At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1380) 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.
