κινδυνέυω
to be in danger
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
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2793 appears in the Book of Acts — 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.
Acts
- Acts 19:27 κινδυνεύει pres act ind 3sg Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."
- Acts 19:40 κινδυνεύομεν pres act ind 1pl For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."
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.
κινδυνευω (kindyneúō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to be in danger.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. Acts dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. It first appears in Luke 8:23. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2793 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
- Acts 2 verses 50%
- Luke 1 verse 25%
- 1 Corinthians 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.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 75%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 25%
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: Is in danger 1×, Jeopardy 1×, Stand 1×
- American Standard Version: Is there danger 1×, Jeopardy 1×, Stand 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Danger 1×, Endanger ourselves 1×, They were in great danger 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are 1×, Danger 1×, Is 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2793 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2793 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2793 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2793 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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 be in jeopardy, to be in danger, to put in peril
Word origin
Derived from κινδυνος (kíndynos) (G2794) — danger.
From G2794 ; to undergo peril : - be in danger be (stand) in jeopardy.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2793 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κινδυνεύομεν kindyneúomen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Acts 19:40 | 2 |
| κινδυνεύει kindyneúei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 19:27 | 1 |
| ἐκινδύνευον ekindýneuon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 8:23 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κινδυνευω appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 4 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 10:9 κινδυνεύω
- Isaiah 28:13 κινδυνεύω
- Daniel 1:10 κινδυνεύω
- Jonah 1:4 κινδυνεύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2793) 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.
- Ecclesiastes 10:9 κινδυνεύω Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.
- Isaiah 28:13 κινδυνεύω Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
- Daniel 1:10 κινδυνεύω The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
- Jonah 1:4 κινδυνεύω But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2793) 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.
