ὀνομάζω
to name
‘to name’ is one of 4 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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- 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”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (22%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 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 G3687 appears — 9 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.
Luke 2 verses
Acts 1 verse
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Ephesians 3 verses
- Ephesians 1:21 ὀνομαζομένου pres pass ptcp gen sg neut far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
- Ephesians 3:15 ὀνομάζεται pres pass ind 3sg from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
- Ephesians 5:3 ὀνομαζέσθω pres pass impv 3sg But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
2 Timothy 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.
ονομαζω (onomázō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to name.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Spanning 9 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Ephesians dominates its distribution — 3 of 9 verses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 6:13. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3687 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.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 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.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 33%
- Gospels 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: Named 3×, Is named 2×
- American Standard Version: Is named 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Calls on 1×, Claims to be 1×, Derives its name 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He 3×, Named 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3687 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G3687 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G3687 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3687 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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.
- to name, to utter, to make mention of the name
- to name
- to bear the name of a person or thing
- to utter the name of a person or thing
Word origin
Derived from ονομα (ónoma) (G3686) — name.
From G3686 ; to name that is assign an appellation ; by extension to utter mention profess : - call name.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G3687 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὠνόμασεν ōnómasen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 6:13 | 2 |
| ὀνομάζειν onomázein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Acts 19:13 | 1 |
| ὀνομάζεται onomázetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Ephesians 3:15 | 1 |
| ὀνομάζων onomázōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Timothy 2:19 | 1 |
| ὀνομαζέσθω onomazésthō | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | Ephesians 5:3 | 1 |
| ὀνομαζομένου onomazoménou | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Ephesians 1:21 | 1 |
| ὀνομαζόμενος onomazómenos | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 5:11 | 1 |
| ὠνομάσθη ōnomásthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 15:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3687, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ονομαζω appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 9 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 24:16 ὀνομάζω
- Deuteronomy 2:20 ὀνομάζω
- Joshua 23:7 ὀνομάζω
- 1 Chronicles 12:32 ὀνομάζω
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 ὀνομάζω
- Esther 9:4 ὀνομάζω
- Isaiah 19:17 ὀνομάζω
- Jeremiah 3:16 ὀνομάζω
- Amos 6:10 ὀνομάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3687) 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.
- Leviticus 24:16 ὀνομάζω He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 2:20 ὀνομάζω (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
- Joshua 23:7 ὀνομάζω that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
- 1 Chronicles 12:32 ὀνομάζω Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 ὀνομάζω Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
- Esther 9:4 ὀνομάζω For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
- Isaiah 19:17 ὀνομάζω The land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against it.
- Isaiah 26:13 ὀνομάζω Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
- Isaiah 62:2 ὀνομάζω The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.
- Jeremiah 3:16 ὀνομάζω It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
- Jeremiah 20:9 ὀνομάζω If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
- Jeremiah 23:36 ὀνομάζω The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Hosts our God.
- Jeremiah 32:16 ὀνομάζω Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
- Amos 6:10 ὀνομάζω "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3687) 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.
