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ὄνομα

name

‘name’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G3686 Strong's Greek
ónoma Transliteration
/on'-om-ah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 229 appearances

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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.

ονομα (ónoma) is a Greek noun most often rendered “name.” Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 214 verses — common. Acts dominates its distribution — 59 of 214 verses. Debuting at Matthew 1:21, it then recurs through the corpus. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
called
Modern gloss
name
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3686 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 →

214
distinct verses
The word appears in 214 distinct verses.
19 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:21
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:21.
Revelation 22:4
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:4.
#71
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 71 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 214 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 89 · 42%
  • Acts 59 · 28%
  • Pauline Epistles 21 · 10%
  • General Epistles 14 · 7%
  • Revelation 31 · 14%

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 214 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 91 verses · 43%
  • Gospels 89 verses · 42%
  • Johannine 60 verses · 28%
  • Revelation 31 verses · 14%
  • Pauline corpus 21 verses · 10%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 2%

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: Name 170×, Named 23×, Names 11×
  • American Standard Version: Name 174×, Named 27×, Names 7×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Name 162×, Named 34×, Names 11×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Name 209×, Names 12×, Named 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3686 across 221 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Name” 170×
  • “Named” 23×
  • “Names” 11×
  • “Name's” 5×
  • “Name's sake” 4×
  • “Called” 2×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3686 across 231 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Name” 174×
  • “Named” 27×
  • “Names” 7×
  • “'s name” 4×
  • “By” 4×
  • “Man named” 3×
  • “In” 2×
  • “Surnamed” 2×
  • “To” 2×

Plus 6 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 G3686 across 214 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Name” 162×
  • “Named” 34×
  • “Names” 11×
  • “Called” 3×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 13 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3686 across 245 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Name” 209×
  • “Names” 12×
  • “Named” 6×
  • “In” 5×
  • “Of” 4×
  • “A” 2×
  • “Was named” 2×

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 4 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.

  1. name: univ. of proper names
  2. the name is used for everything which the name covers…
  3. persons reckoned up by name
  4. the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason

Word origin

Derived from γινωσκω (ginṓskō) (G1097) — to know.

Part of speech: Noun Neuter TDNT: 09:02,7

From a presumed derivative of the base of G1097 (compare G3685 ); a name (literally or figuratively) ( authority character ): - called (+ sur-) name (-d).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 9 distinct written forms G3686 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὄνομα ónoma Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 1:21 83
ὀνόματι onómati Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 7:22 73
ὄνομά ónomá Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 10:22 23
ὀνόματί onómatí Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 18:5 21
ὀνόματος onómatos Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Acts 3:16 14
ὀνόματα onómata Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Mark 3:17 9
ὀνόματός onómatós Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Matthew 19:29 3
ὀνομάτων onomátōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter Acts 1:15 2
ὀνόματά onómatá Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 10:2 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3686, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ονομα appears 877 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 782 verses in 34 books.

877
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
782
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
34 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 34 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3686) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 782. 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 (G3686) 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.

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