ζημιόω
to damage
‘to damage’ 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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
5 distinct verses where G2210 appears in the Aorist tense, across 5 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Philippians 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 ζημιοω centers on the idea of “to damage.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 16:26. The Greek New Testament uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2210 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 17%
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: Lose 2×
- American Standard Version: Forfeit 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Forfeit 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Forfeit 1×, Forfeiting 1×, Forfeits 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2210 across 6 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 G2210 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G2210 across 6 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2210 across 7 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 affect with damage, do damage to
- to sustain damage, to receive injury, suffer loss
Word origin
Derived from ζημια (zēmía) (G2209) — damage.
From G2209 ; to injure that is (reflexively or passively) to experience detriment : - be cast away receive damage lose suffer loss.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2210 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ζημιωθήσεται zēmiōthḗsetai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 3:15 | 1 |
| ζημιωθείς zēmiōtheís | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 9:25 | 1 |
| ζημιωθῆναι zēmiōthē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive | Mark 8:36 | 1 |
| ζημιωθῆτε zēmiōthē̂te | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 7:9 | 1 |
| ζημιωθῇ zēmiōthē̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 16:26 | 1 |
| ἐζημιώθην ezēmiṓthēn | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Philippians 3:8 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ζημιοω appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 6 verses in 3 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 6
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 21:22 ζημιόω
- Deuteronomy 22:19 ζημιόω
- Proverbs 17:26 ζημιόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2210) 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.
- Exodus 21:22 ζημιόω "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 ζημιόω and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
- Proverbs 17:26 ζημιόω Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to flog officials for their integrity.
- Proverbs 19:19 ζημιόω A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, For if you rescue him, you must do it again.
- Proverbs 21:11 ζημιόω When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom; When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
- Proverbs 22:3 ζημιόω A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2210) 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.
