θερμαίνω
to warm
‘to warm’ 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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive
- A form that may be middle or passive — resolved by context.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2328 appears in the Book of Mark — 2 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.
Mark
- Mark 14:54 θερμαινόμενος pres mid ptcp nom sg masc Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.
- Mark 14:67 θερμαινόμενον pres mid ptcp acc sg masc and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"
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 θερμαινω centers on the idea of “to warm.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 5 verses. Mark dominates its distribution — 2 of 5 verses. First canonically at Mark 14:54, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2328 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 80%
- Johannine 2 verses · 40%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 20%
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: Warmed himself 3×
- American Standard Version: Warming himself 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Warming himself 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Warming himself 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2328 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2328 across 7 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 G2328 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2328 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 make warm, to heat
- to warm one's self
Word origin
Derived from θερμη (thérmē) (G2329) — heat.
From G2329 ; to heat (oneself): - (be) warm (-ed self).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2328 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θερμαινόμενος thermainómenos | Verb, Present, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 14:54 | 3 |
| θερμαίνεσθε thermaínesthe | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | James 2:16 | 1 |
| θερμαινόμενον thermainómenon | Verb, Present, Middle, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 14:67 | 1 |
| ἐθερμαίνοντο ethermaínonto | Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 18:18 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θερμαινω appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 8 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- 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
- 1 Kings 1:1 θερμαίνω
- Job 31:20 θερμαίνω
- Psalms 38:4 θερμαίνω
- Ecclesiastes 4:11 θερμαίνω
- Isaiah 44:15 θερμαίνω
- Ezekiel 24:11 θερμαίνω
- Hosea 7:7 θερμαίνω
- Haggai 1:6 θερμαίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2328) 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.
- 1 Kings 1:1 θερμαίνω Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
- 1 Kings 1:2 θερμαίνω Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.
- Job 31:20 θερμαίνω If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
- Psalms 38:4 θερμαίνω For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
- Ecclesiastes 4:11 θερμαίνω Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
- Isaiah 44:15 θερμαίνω Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.
- Isaiah 44:16 θερμαίνω He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
- Ezekiel 24:11 θερμαίνω Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
- Hosea 7:7 θερμαίνω They are all hot as an oven, And devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
- Haggai 1:6 θερμαίνω You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2328) 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.
