ἐπονομάζω
to name
‘to name’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2028 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Romans 1 verse
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 επονομαζω centers on the idea of “to name.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to Romans (100%). Its lone occurrence is Romans 2:17. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2028 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: Art called 1×
- American Standard Version: Bearest the name 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: You call 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Name yourself 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2028 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2028 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2028 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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Renders G2028 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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 put a name upon, name
- to be named
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2028, 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
- επαγγελλω epangéllō G1861 to announce
- 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
+110 more words share this root (not shown).
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 137 — 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 επονομαζω appears 36 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 9 books.
- 36
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:17 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- Exodus 2:10 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- Leviticus 24:11 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- Numbers 13:16 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- Deuteronomy 2:11 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- Joshua 7:26 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- Judges 2:5 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 ἐπιὀνομάζω
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 ἐπιὀνομάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2028) 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 4:17 ἐπιὀνομάζω Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 4:25 ἐπιὀνομάζω Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 4:26 ἐπιὀνομάζω There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
- Genesis 5:2 ἐπιὀνομάζω He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 5:3 ἐπιὀνομάζω Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Genesis 5:29 ἐπιὀνομάζω and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 21:31 ἐπιὀνομάζω Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
- Genesis 25:25 ἐπιὀνομάζω The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
- Genesis 26:18 ἐπιὀνομάζω Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 26:21 ἐπιὀνομάζω They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called the name of it Sitnah.
- Genesis 26:22 ἐπιὀνομάζω He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 30:11 ἐπιὀνομάζω Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.
- Exodus 2:10 ἐπιὀνομάζω The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
- Exodus 2:22 ἐπιὀνομάζω She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
- Exodus 15:23 ἐπιὀνομάζω When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
- Exodus 16:31 ἐπιὀνομάζω The house of Israel called the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
- Exodus 17:7 ἐπιὀνομάζω He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
- Exodus 17:15 ἐπιὀνομάζω Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.
- Exodus 20:24 ἐπιὀνομάζω You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
- Leviticus 24:11 ἐπιὀνομάζω The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
- Numbers 13:16 ἐπιὀνομάζω These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Numbers 13:24 ἐπιὀνομάζω That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
- Numbers 32:38 ἐπιὀνομάζω and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
- Numbers 32:41 ἐπιὀνομάζω Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns of it, and called them Havvoth Jair.
- Numbers 32:42 ἐπιὀνομάζω Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
- Deuteronomy 2:11 ἐπιὀνομάζω these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- Deuteronomy 3:9 ἐπιὀνομάζω ([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
- Deuteronomy 3:14 ἐπιὀνομάζω Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
- Deuteronomy 12:5 ἐπιὀνομάζω But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
- Joshua 7:26 ἐπιὀνομάζω They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
- Joshua 22:34 ἐπιὀνομάζω The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.
- Judges 2:5 ἐπιὀνομάζω They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 ἐπιὀνομάζω But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 ἐπιὀνομάζω So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2028) 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.
