ἀναγγέλλω
to announce
‘to announce’ is one of 2 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
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- 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”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
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
- 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”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 4 times (31%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (15%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 2 times (15%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G312 appears — 13 distinct verses across 6 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.
John 4 verses
- John 4:25 ἀναγγελεῖ fut act ind 3sg The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
- John 16:13 ἀναγγελεῖ fut act ind 3sg However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
- John 16:14 ἀναγγελεῖ fut act ind 3sg He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
- John 16:15 ἀναγγελεῖ fut act ind 3sg All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 14:27 ἀνήγγελλον impf act ind 3pl When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
- Acts 15:4 ἀνήγγειλάν aor act ind 3pl When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
- Acts 19:18 ἀναγγέλλοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
- Acts 20:20 ἀναγγεῖλαι aor act inf how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
- Acts 20:27 ἀναγγεῖλαι aor act inf for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Romans 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
1 John 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 announce” is the headline sense of the Greek verb αναγγελλω (anangéllō). First canonically at John 4:25, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Acts. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 13-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G312 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 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 13 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 38%
- Johannine 5 verses · 38%
- Gospels 4 verses · 31%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 15%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 15%
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: Told 3×, Declare 2×, Shall shew 2×
- American Standard Version: Declaring 2×, Shall declare 2×, They rehearsed 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Declaring 2×, Disclosing 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He will announce 3×, It 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G312 across 20 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G312 across 19 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G312 across 14 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G312 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.
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.
- to announce, make known
- to report, bring back tidings, rehearse
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G312 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀναγγελεῖ anangeleî | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 4:25 | 4 |
| ἀναγγεῖλαι anangeîlai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Acts 20:20 | 2 |
| ἀνηγγέλη anēngélē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 15:21 | 2 |
| ἀνήγγειλάν anḗngeilán | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 15:4 | 1 |
| ἀνήγγελλον anḗngellon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 14:27 | 1 |
| ἀναγγέλλομεν anangéllomen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | 1 John 1:5 | 1 |
| ἀναγγέλλοντες anangéllontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 19:18 | 1 |
| ἀναγγέλλων anangéllōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 7:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G312, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
- ανακαλυπτω anakalýptō G343 to uncover
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 77 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναγγελλω appears 211 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 200 verses in 25 books.
- 211
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 200
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:11 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Exodus 4:28 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Leviticus 14:35 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Numbers 23:3 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Deuteronomy 1:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Joshua 4:10 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Judges 4:12 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- Ruth 4:4 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- 1 Samuel 3:13 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- 2 Samuel 1:20 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- 1 Kings 1:23 ἀναἀγγέλλω
- 2 Kings 4:2 ἀναἀγγέλλω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G312) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 200. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:11 ἀναἀγγέλλω God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 9:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Genesis 21:7 ἀναἀγγέλλω She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
- Genesis 22:20 ἀναἀγγέλλω It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
- Genesis 24:23 ἀναἀγγέλλω and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
- Genesis 29:12 ἀναἀγγέλλω Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
- Genesis 31:20 ἀναἀγγέλλω Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
- Genesis 31:27 ἀναἀγγέλλω Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
- Genesis 32:6 ἀναἀγγέλλω The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
- Genesis 32:30 ἀναἀγγέλλω Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
- Genesis 37:14 ἀναἀγγέλλω He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Genesis 37:16 ἀναἀγγέλλω He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
- Genesis 43:6 ἀναἀγγέλλω Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
- Genesis 45:26 ἀναἀγγέλλω They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.
- Genesis 49:1 ἀναἀγγέλλω Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
- Exodus 4:28 ἀναἀγγέλλω Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him.
- Exodus 13:8 ἀναἀγγέλλω You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.'
- Exodus 14:5 ἀναἀγγέλλω It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
- Exodus 16:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 18:6 ἀναἀγγέλλω He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
- Exodus 19:3 ἀναἀγγέλλω Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
- Exodus 19:9 ἀναἀγγέλλω Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
- Exodus 20:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
- Leviticus 14:35 ἀναἀγγέλλω then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
- Numbers 23:3 ἀναἀγγέλλω Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.
- Deuteronomy 1:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
- Deuteronomy 4:13 ἀναἀγγέλλω He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 5:5 ἀναἀγγέλλω (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,
- Deuteronomy 8:3 ἀναἀγγέλλω He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
- Deuteronomy 13:10 ἀναἀγγέλλω You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 17:4 ἀναἀγγέλλω and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
- Deuteronomy 17:9 ἀναἀγγέλλω and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
- Deuteronomy 17:10 ἀναἀγγέλλω You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
- Deuteronomy 17:11 ἀναἀγγέλλω according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 24:8 ἀναἀγγέλλω Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
- Deuteronomy 26:3 ἀναἀγγέλλω You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.
- Deuteronomy 30:18 ἀναἀγγέλλω I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 32:7 ἀναἀγγέλλω Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you.
- Joshua 4:10 ἀναἀγγέλλω For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.
- Joshua 4:22 ἀναἀγγέλλω Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- Joshua 7:19 ἀναἀγγέλλω Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from me.
- Joshua 9:24 ἀναἀγγέλλω They answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
- Judges 4:12 ἀναἀγγέλλω They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
- Judges 9:7 ἀναἀγγέλλω When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
- Judges 9:42 ἀναἀγγέλλω It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
- Judges 9:47 ἀναἀγγέλλω It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- Judges 13:10 ἀναἀγγέλλω The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the [other] day.
- Judges 16:2 ἀναἀγγέλλω [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
- Judges 16:10 ἀναἀγγέλλω Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G312) 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.
