κήρυγμα
proclamation
‘proclamation’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2782 appears in the Book of Romans — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. 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.
At its core, κηρυγμα (kḗrygma) means “proclamation.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 12:41. It turns up in 8 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to 1 Corinthians (38%), then Matthew and Luke. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2782 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 38%
- Matthew 1 verse 13%
- Luke 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 75%
- Gospels 2 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
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: Preaching 8×
- American Standard Version: Preaching 6×, Message 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Preaching 4×, Proclamation 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Preaching 5×, Proclamation 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2782 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2782 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2782 across 8 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2782 across 8 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.
- that which is proclaimed by a herald or public crier, a proclamation by herald
- in the NT the message or proclamation of the heralds of God or Christ
Word origin
Derived from κηρυσσω (kērýssō) (G2784) — to proclaim.
From G2784 ; a proclamation (especially of the gospel; by implication the gospel itself): - preaching.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2782 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κήρυγμα kḗrygma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 12:41 | 5 |
| κήρυγμά kḗrygmá | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 2:4 | 1 |
| κηρύγματι kērýgmati | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Titus 1:3 | 1 |
| κηρύγματος kērýgmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 1:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2782, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κηρυγμα appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 3 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- 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
- 2 Chronicles 30:5 κήρυγμα
- Proverbs 9:3 κήρυγμα
- Jonah 3:2 κήρυγμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2782) 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 Chronicles 30:5 κήρυγμα So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
- Proverbs 9:3 κήρυγμα She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
- Jonah 3:2 κήρυγμα "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2782) 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.
