κάμπτω
to bow
‘to bow’ 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.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G2578 appears in the Future tense in the Book of Romans. 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.
Romans
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.
“to bow” is the headline sense of the Greek verb καμπτω (kámptō). It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Romans. Its earliest occurrence is Romans 11:4. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2578 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 2 verses 50%
- Ephesians 1 verse 25%
- Philippians 1 verse 25%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 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: Bowed 1×, Have 1×, I bow 1×
- American Standard Version: Bowed 1×, Have 1×, I bow 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bowed 1×, I bow 1×, Should bow 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bent 1×, Have 1×, I bend 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2578 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2578 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2578 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2578 across 5 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 bend, bow, the knee (the knees)
- to bow one's self
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary verb
Apparently a primary verb; to bend : - bow.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2578 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κάμπτω kámptō | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Ephesians 3:14 | 1 |
| κάμψει kámpsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 14:11 | 1 |
| κάμψῃ kámpsē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Philippians 2:10 | 1 |
| ἔκαμψαν ékampsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Romans 11:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2578, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καμπτω appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 6 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 22:40 κάμπτω
- 2 Kings 1:13 κάμπτω
- 1 Chronicles 29:20 κάμπτω
- 2 Chronicles 29:29 κάμπτω
- Job 9:13 κάμπτω
- Isaiah 45:23 κάμπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2578) 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:40 κάμπτω For you have girded me with strength to the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
- 2 Kings 1:13 κάμπτω Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
- 2 Kings 9:24 κάμπτω Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
- 1 Chronicles 29:20 κάμπτω David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped Yahweh, and the king.
- 2 Chronicles 29:29 κάμπτω When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
- Job 9:13 κάμπτω "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
- Isaiah 45:23 κάμπτω By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
- Isaiah 58:5 κάμπτω Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2578) 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.
