καταγγέλλω
to proclaim
‘to proclaim’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- 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”).
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 12 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 3 times (17%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 3 times (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (6%)
+4 more forms (4 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2605 appears — 18 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Acts 11 verses
- Acts 3:24 κατήγγειλαν aor act ind 3pl Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
- Acts 4:2 καταγγέλλειν pres act inf being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
- Acts 13:5 κατήγγελλον impf act ind 3pl When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They had also John as their attendant.
- Acts 13:38 καταγγέλλεται pres pass ind 3sg Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
- Acts 15:36 κατηγγείλαμεν aor act ind 1pl After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."
- Acts 16:17 καταγγέλλουσιν pres act ind 3pl Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!"
- Acts 16:21 καταγγέλλουσιν pres act ind 3pl and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
- Acts 17:3 καταγγέλλω pres act ind 1sg explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
- Acts 17:13 κατηγγέλη aor pass ind 3sg But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
- Acts 17:23 καταγγέλλω pres act ind 1sg For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
- Acts 26:23 καταγγέλλειν pres act inf how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 2:1 καταγγέλλων pres act ptcp nom sg masc When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
- 1 Corinthians 9:14 καταγγέλλουσιν pres act ptcp dat pl masc Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Gospel should live from the Gospel.
- 1 Corinthians 11:26 καταγγέλλετε pres act ind 2pl For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Philippians 2 verses
- Philippians 1:17 καταγγέλλουσιν pres act ind 3pl but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.
- Philippians 1:18 καταγγέλλεται pres pass ind 3sg What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
Colossians 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.
“to proclaim” is the headline sense of the Greek verb καταγγελλω (katangéllō). It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 61% of its uses. With 18 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Acts 3:24. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 18-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2605 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #664
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 664 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 11 verses 61%
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 17%
- Philippians 2 verses 11%
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 18 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 61%
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 39%
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: Preach 3×, Is preached 2×, Shew 2×
- American Standard Version: Is proclaimed 3×, Proclaim 2×, Set forth 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Proclaim 3×, Preach 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Proclaim 4×, Proclaiming 3×, Is proclaimed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2605 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G2605 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G2605 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 G2605 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 3 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, declare, promulgate, make known
- to proclaim publicly, publish
- to denounce, report, betray
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms G2605 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2605, 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
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καθως kathṓs G2531 according as
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 130 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
