κραυγάζω
to cry out
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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- 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).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 3 times (33%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (22%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2905 appears — 9 distinct verses across 4 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
John 6 verses
- John 11:43 ἐκραύγασεν aor act ind 3sg When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
- John 12:13 ἐκραύγαζον impf act ind 3pl they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
- John 18:40 ἐκραύγασαν aor act ind 3pl Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
- John 19:6 ἐκραύγασαν aor act ind 3pl When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
- John 19:12 ἐκραύγαζον impf act ind 3pl At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
- John 19:15 ἐκραύγασαν aor act ind 3pl They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
Acts 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 cry out” is the headline sense of the Greek verb κραυγαζω (kraugázō). More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in John. The Greek New Testament uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Matthew 12:19, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2905 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 89%
- Johannine 6 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 22%
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: They cried out 2×
- American Standard Version: Cried 1×, Cried out 1×, Cry 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: They shouted 3×, Shouting 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cried out 3×, They cried out 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2905 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G2905 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2905 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G2905 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 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 cry out, cry aloud, to shout, to cry out to one
Word origin
Derived from κραυγη (kraugḗ) (G2906) — outcry.
From G2906 ; to clamor : - cry out.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2905 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκραύγασαν ekraúgasan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 18:40 | 3 |
| ἐκραύγαζον ekraúgazon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 12:13 | 2 |
| κραυγάζοντα kraugázonta | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 4:41 | 1 |
| κραυγάσει kraugásei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 12:19 | 1 |
| κραυγαζόντων kraugazóntōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 22:23 | 1 |
| ἐκραύγασεν ekraúgasen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 11:43 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κραυγαζω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ezra 3:13 κραυγάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2905) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2905) 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.
