μακαρίζω
to bless
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
- 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).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G3106 appears in the Present tense, across 1 book. 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.
James 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.
μακαριζω — transliterated makarízō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to bless.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Luke 1:48, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside μακαριος and μακαρισμος. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3106 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
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: Blessed 1×, Shall call 1×, We count them happy 1×
- American Standard Version: Blessed 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Blessed we consider 1×, Will call me blessed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blessed 1×, We call blessed 1×, Will call 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3106 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3106 across 4 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3106 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3106 across 3 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 pronounce blessed
Word origin
Derived from μακαριος (makários) (G3107) — blessed.
From G3107 ; to beatify that is pronounce (or esteem ) fortunate : - call blessed count happy.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3106 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μακαρίζομεν makarízomen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | James 5:11 | 1 |
| μακαριοῦσίν makarioûsín | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural, Attic form | Luke 1:48 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3106, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μακαριζω appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 7 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 30:13 μακαρίζω
- Numbers 24:17 μακαρίζω
- Job 29:10 μακαρίζω
- Psalms 40:3 μακαρίζω
- Song of Solomon 6:9 μακαρίζω
- Isaiah 3:12 μακαρίζω
- Malachi 3:12 μακαρίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3106) 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.
- Genesis 30:13 μακαρίζω Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.
- Numbers 24:17 μακαρίζω I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult.
- Job 29:10 μακαρίζω The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
- Job 29:11 μακαρίζω For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:
- Psalms 40:3 μακαρίζω He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
- Psalms 71:17 μακαρίζω God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
- Psalms 143:15 μακαρίζω
- Song of Solomon 6:9 μακαρίζω My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
- Isaiah 3:12 μακαρίζω As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.
- Isaiah 9:15 μακαρίζω The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
- Malachi 3:12 μακαρίζω "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:15 μακαρίζω Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3106) 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.
