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δοξάζω

to glorify

‘to glorify’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G1392 Strong's Greek
doxázō Transliteration
/dox-ad'-zo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 61 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb δοξαζω centers on the idea of “to glorify.” Thayer's distinguishes 4 senses for it. It turns up in 53 verses across 13 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to John (30%), then Luke and Acts. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 5:16. Dig into 53-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
glorify
Modern gloss
to glorify
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1392 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 →

53
distinct verses
The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
13 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:16
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:16.
Revelation 18:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 18:7.
#267
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 267 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 53 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 30 · 57%
  • Acts 5 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 11 · 21%
  • General Epistles 5 · 9%
  • Revelation 2 · 4%

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 53 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 30 verses · 57%
  • Johannine 18 verses · 34%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 14 verses · 26%
  • Pauline corpus 11 verses · 21%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 8%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 2%

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: Glorified 12×, Glorify 10×, They glorified 6×
  • American Standard Version: Glorified 12×, Glorify 11×, They glorified 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Glorify 9×, They glorified 5×, Glorified 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Glorify 9×, Glorified 7×, Glorifying 7×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1392 across 71 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Glorified” 12×
  • “Glorify” 10×
  • “They glorified” 6×
  • “Glorifying” 3×
  • “Be glorified” 2×
  • “Is” 2×
  • “May be glorified” 2×
  • “Shall” 2×

Plus 32 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 G1392 across 71 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Glorified” 12×
  • “Glorify” 11×
  • “They glorified” 5×
  • “Glorifying” 4×
  • “May be glorified” 3×
  • “Shall” 2×

Plus 34 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 G1392 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Glorify” 9×
  • “They glorified” 5×
  • “Glorified” 4×
  • “Glorifying” 3×
  • “Is glorified” 3×
  • “May be glorified” 3×
  • “Will glorify” 3×
  • “May glorify” 2×
  • “Was glorified” 2×

Plus 27 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 G1392 across 70 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Glorify” 9×
  • “Glorified” 7×
  • “Glorifying” 7×
  • “Might be glorified” 3×
  • “Has been glorified” 2×
  • “He will glorify” 2×
  • “It” 2×
  • “May be glorified” 2×
  • “Might glorify” 2×
  • “She glorified” 2×
  • “They glorified” 2×
  • “They were glorifying” 2×

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.

  1. to think, suppose, be of opinion
  2. to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate
  3. to honour, do honour to, hold in honour
  4. to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour

Word origin

Derived from δοξα (dóxa) (G1391) — glory.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 06:13,2

From G1391 ; to render (or esteem ) glorious (in a wide application): - (make) glorify (-ious) full of (have) glory honour magnify.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 28 distinct written forms G1392 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐδοξάσθη edoxásthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 7:39 6
ἐδόξαζον edóxazon Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 5:26 6
δοξάσει doxásei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 13:32 5
δοξάζων doxázōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 5:25 4
ἐδόξασαν edóxasan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 9:8 4
ἐδόξασεν edóxasen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 3:13 4
δοξασθῇ doxasthē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 11:4 3
δόξασόν dóxasón Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular John 12:28 3
δοξάσω doxásō Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular John 8:54 2
δοξάζηται doxázētai Verb, Present, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 2 Thessalonians 3:1 2
δοξάζοντες doxázontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 2:20 2
δοξάσωσιν doxásōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 5:16 2
ἐδόξαζεν edóxazen Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 13:13 2
ἐδόξασα edóxasa Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 12:28 2
δεδοξασμένον dedoxasménon Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 2 Corinthians 3:10 1
δεδοξασμένῃ dedoxasménē Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 Peter 1:8 1
δεδόξασμαι dedóxasmai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 17:10 1
δεδόξασται dedóxastai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 Corinthians 3:10 1
δοξάζειν doxázein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Mark 2:12 1
δοξάζεται doxázetai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 12:26 1
δοξάζητε doxázēte Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Romans 15:6 1
δοξάζω doxázō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Romans 11:13 1
δοξάσαι doxásai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Romans 15:9 1
δοξάσατε doxásate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 Corinthians 6:20 1
δοξάσῃ doxásē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 17:1 1
δοξαζέτω doxazétō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Peter 4:16 1
δοξαζόμενος doxazómenos Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 4:15 1
δοξασθῶσιν doxasthō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 6:2 1

Septuagint usage

The same Greek word δοξαζω appears 67 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 65 verses in 16 books.

67
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
65
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
16 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1392) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 65. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1392) 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.

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