παραγγέλλω
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
- 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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
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”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
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”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 14 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 6 times (20%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 3 times (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 3 times (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 3 times (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 2 times (7%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (7%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (3%)
+6 more forms (6 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 30 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3853 appears — 30 distinct verses across 8 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 2 verses
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 6:8 παρήγγειλεν aor act ind 3sg He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
- Mark 8:6 παραγγέλλει pres act ind 3sg He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 5:14 παρήγγειλεν aor act ind 3sg He charged him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
- Luke 8:29 παρήγγελλεν impf act ind 3sg For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
- Luke 8:56 παρήγγειλεν aor act ind 3sg Her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had been done.
- Luke 9:21 παρήγγειλεν aor act ind 3sg But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,
Acts 10 verses
- Acts 1:4 παρήγγειλεν aor act ind 3sg Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
- Acts 4:18 παρήγγειλαν aor act ind 3pl They called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
- Acts 5:28 παρηγγείλαμεν aor act ind 1pl saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
- Acts 5:40 παρήγγειλαν aor act ind 3pl They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
- Acts 10:42 παρήγγειλεν aor act ind 3sg He charged us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
- Acts 15:5 παραγγέλλειν pres act inf But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."
- Acts 16:18 παραγγέλλω pres act ind 1sg She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour.
- Acts 16:23 παραγγείλαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
- Acts 23:22 παραγγείλας aor act ptcp nom sg masc So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."
- Acts 23:30 παραγγείλας aor act ptcp nom sg masc When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 7:10 παραγγέλλω pres act ind 1sg But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband
- 1 Corinthians 11:17 παραγγέλλων pres act ptcp nom sg masc But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 4 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 3:4 παραγγέλλομεν pres act ind 1pl We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Παραγγέλλομεν pres act ind 1pl Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10 παρηγγέλλομεν impf act ind 1pl For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
- 2 Thessalonians 3:12 παραγγέλλομεν pres act ind 1pl Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
1 Timothy 5 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:3 παραγγείλῃς aor act subj 2sg As I exhorted you to stay at Ephesus when I was going into Macedonia, that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
- 1 Timothy 4:11 Παράγγελλε pres act impv 2sg Command and teach these things.
- 1 Timothy 5:7 παράγγελλε pres act impv 2sg Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
- 1 Timothy 6:13 παραγγέλλω pres act ind 1sg I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
- 1 Timothy 6:17 παράγγελλε pres act impv 2sg Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
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 παραγγελλω (parangéllō). First canonically at Matthew 10:5, it enters the text early. With 30 verses in 8 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3853 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 →
- 30
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 30 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #463
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 463 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 30 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 30 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 14 verses · 47%
- Pauline corpus 12 verses · 40%
- Gospels 8 verses · 27%
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: Commanded 5×, Command 3×, We command 3×
- American Standard Version: Charged 5×, He charged 4×, Charge 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: He instructed 3×, We command 3×, He commanded 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Command 3×, Commanded 3×, Commanding 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3853 across 32 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3853 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G3853 across 29 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3853 across 32 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.
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 transmit a message along from one to another, to declare, announce
- to command, order, charge
Word origin
Derived from παρα (pará) (G3844) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms G3853 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3853, 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
- παραβαινω parabaínō G3845 to neglect
- παραβαλλω parabállō G3846 to place beside
- παραβιαζομαι parabiázomai G3849 to compel
- παραβουλευομαι parabouleúomai G3851 to consult wrongly
- παραγινομαι paragínomai G3854 to appear
- παραγω parágō G3855 to pass by
- παραδειγματιζω paradeigmatízō G3856 to make example
- παραδεχομαι paradéchomai G3858 to receive
- παραδιατριβη paradiatribḗ G3859 empty business
- παραδιδωμι paradídōmi G3860 to deliver
- παραδοξος parádoxos G3861 strange
- παραζηλοω parazēlóō G3863 to provoke
- παραθαλασσιος parathalássios G3864 by the sea
- παραθεωρεω paratheōréō G3865 to compare
- παραινεω parainéō G3867 to exhort
- παραιτεομαι paraitéomai G3868 to beg pardon
- παρακαθιζω parakathízō G3869 to sit beside
- παρακαλεω parakaléō G3870 to call beside
- παρακαλυπτω parakalýptō G3871 to cover up
- παρακαταθηκη parakatathḗkē G3872 deposit
- παρακειμαι parákeimai G3873 to lie beside
- παρακολουθεω parakolouthéō G3877 to follow after
- παρακουω parakoúō G3878 to disobey
- παρακυπτω parakýptō G3879 to look into
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 79 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παραγγελλω appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 7 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- 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
- Joshua 6:7 παραἀγγέλλω
- 1 Samuel 10:17 παραἀγγέλλω
- 1 Kings 12:6 παραἀγγέλλω
- 2 Chronicles 36:22 παραἀγγέλλω
- Ezra 1:1 παραἀγγέλλω
- Jeremiah 26:14 παραἀγγέλλω
- Daniel 2:18 παραἀγγέλλω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3853) 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.
- Joshua 6:7 παραἀγγέλλω They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 10:17 παραἀγγέλλω Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
- 1 Samuel 15:4 παραἀγγέλλω Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 23:8 παραἀγγέλλω Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
- 1 Kings 12:6 παραἀγγέλλω King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people?
- 1 Kings 15:22 παραἀγγέλλω Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
- 2 Chronicles 36:22 παραἀγγέλλω Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
- Ezra 1:1 παραἀγγέλλω Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
- Jeremiah 26:14 παραἀγγέλλω But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.
- Jeremiah 27:29 παραἀγγέλλω
- Jeremiah 28:27 παραἀγγέλλω
- Daniel 2:18 παραἀγγέλλω that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:4 παραἀγγέλλω Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3853) 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.
