ἐπαγγέλλω
to announce
‘to announce’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- 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).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
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.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1861 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 4 distinct verses. 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 6:13 ἐπαγγειλάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,
- Hebrews 10:23 ἐπαγγειλάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.
- Hebrews 11:11 ἐπαγγειλάμενον aor mid.dep ptcp acc sg masc By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- Hebrews 12:26 ἐπήγγελται perf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
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.
At its core, επαγγελλω (epangéllō) means “to announce.” Scripture first uses it in Mark 14:11. With 15 verses in 10 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Hebrews (27% of all occurrences). Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 15-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1861 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 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 15 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 27%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 27%
- Gospels 1 verse · 7%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
- Johannine 1 verse · 7%
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: Promised 3×, Hath promised 2×, He hath promised 2×
- American Standard Version: Promised 5×, He promised 2×, Professing 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Promised 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having promised 3×, He promised 3×, Promised 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1861 across 15 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1861 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G1861 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 G1861 across 15 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.
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 announce that one is about to do or furnish something
- an art, to profess one's skill in something
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G1861 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπηγγείλατο epēngeílato | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 7:5 | 5 |
| ἐπήγγελται epḗngeltai | Verb, Perfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 4:21 | 3 |
| ἐπαγγειλάμενος epangeilámenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 6:13 | 2 |
| ἐπαγγελλόμενοι epangellómenoi | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Timothy 6:21 | 2 |
| ἐπαγγειλάμενον epangeilámenon | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 11:11 | 1 |
| ἐπαγγελλομέναις epangelloménais | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Timothy 2:10 | 1 |
| ἐπηγγείλαντο epēngeílanto | Verb, Aorist, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 14:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1861, 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
- επαγω epágō G1863 to bring upon
- επαγωνιζομαι epagōnízomai G1864 to contend
- επαθροιζω epathroízō G1865 to gather together
- επαινεω epainéō G1867 to approve
- επαινος épainos G1868 approval
- επαιρω epaírō G1869 to lift up
- επαισχυνομαι epaischýnomai G1870 to be ashamed
- επαιτεω epaitéō G1871 to ask repeatedly
- επακουω epakoúō G1873 to give ear to
- επακροαομαι epakroáomai G1874 to listen to
- επαν epán G1875 after
- επαναγκες epánankes G1876 necessarily
- επαναγω epanágō G1877 to lead back
- επαναμιμνησκω epanamimnḗskō G1878 to remind
- επαναπαυομαι epanapaúomai G1879 to rest upon
- επανερχομαι epanérchomai G1880 to return
- επανισταμαι epanístamai G1881 to raise up against
- επανορθωσις epanórthōsis G1882 correction
- επανω epánō G1883 above
- επαρκεω eparkéō G1884 to avail
- επαρχια eparchía G1885 office of governor
- επαυλις épaulis G1886 farm
- επαυριον epaúrion G1887 the next day
- επαυτοφωρω epautophṓrōi G1888 caught in the act
+110 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 139 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word επαγγελλω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Esther 4:7 ἐπιἀγγέλλω
- Proverbs 13:12 ἐπιἀγγέλλω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1861) 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.
- Esther 4:7 ἐπιἀγγέλλω Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
- Proverbs 13:12 ἐπιἀγγέλλω Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1861) 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.
