τάσσω
to appoint
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).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- 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”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5021 appears in the Book of Acts — 5 distinct verses. 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.
Acts
- Acts 13:48 τεταγμένοι perf pass ptcp nom pl masc As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
- Acts 15:2 ἔταξαν aor act ind 3pl Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
- Acts 18:2 τεταχέναι perf act inf He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
- Acts 22:10 τέτακταί perf pass ind 3sg I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.'
- Acts 28:23 ταξάμενοι aor mid ptcp nom pl masc When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
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 appoint” is the headline sense of the Greek verb τασσω (tássō). It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 56% of its uses. It turns up in 9 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Matthew 28:16, it enters the text early. From the same root come ταγμα, τακτος and ταξις. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5021 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.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 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.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 67%
- Gospels 2 verses · 22%
- Pauline corpus 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: Ordained 2×
- American Standard Version: Ordained 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Have been appointed 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Appointed 2×, Placed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5021 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G5021 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 G5021 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G5021 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 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 put in order, to station
Word origin
Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb (which latter appears only in certain tenses)
A prolonged form of a primary verb (which latter appears only in certain tenses); to arrange in an orderly manner that is assign or dispose (to a certain position or lot): - addict appoint determine ordain set.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5021 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔταξαν étaxan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 15:2 | 2 |
| τέτακταί tétaktaí | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 22:10 | 1 |
| ταξάμενοι taxámenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 28:23 | 1 |
| τασσόμενος tassómenos | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 7:8 | 1 |
| τεταγμέναι tetagménai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Romans 13:1 | 1 |
| τεταγμένοι tetagménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 13:48 | 1 |
| τεταχέναι tetachénai | Verb, Perfect, Active, Infinitive | Acts 18:2 | 1 |
| ἐτάξατο etáxato | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 28:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5021, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τασσω appears 58 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 57 verses in 21 books.
- 58
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 57
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:24 τάσσω
- Exodus 8:5 τάσσω
- 1 Samuel 20:35 τάσσω
- 2 Samuel 7:11 τάσσω
- 1 Kings 2:5 τάσσω
- 2 Kings 10:24 τάσσω
- 1 Chronicles 16:4 τάσσω
- 2 Chronicles 31:2 τάσσω
- Job 14:13 τάσσω
- Song of Solomon 2:4 τάσσω
- Isaiah 38:1 τάσσω
- Jeremiah 2:15 τάσσω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5021) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 57. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:24 τάσσω So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Exodus 8:5 τάσσω Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 8:8 τάσσω Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 29:43 τάσσω There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.
- 1 Samuel 20:35 τάσσω It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
- 1 Samuel 22:7 τάσσω Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
- 2 Samuel 7:11 τάσσω and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
- 2 Samuel 20:5 τάσσω So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
- 2 Samuel 23:23 τάσσω He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.
- 1 Kings 2:5 τάσσω Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 2 Kings 10:24 τάσσω They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, [he who lets him go], his life shall be for the life of him.
- 2 Kings 10:27 τάσσω They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
- 2 Kings 12:18 τάσσω Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 16:4 τάσσω He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
- 1 Chronicles 16:7 τάσσω Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 17:10 τάσσω and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2 τάσσω Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh.
- Job 14:13 τάσσω "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job 30:22 τάσσω You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
- Job 31:24 τάσσω "If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'
- Job 36:13 τάσσω "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.
- Song of Solomon 2:4 τάσσω He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
- Song of Solomon 6:4 τάσσω You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners.
- Song of Solomon 6:10 τάσσω Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?
- Isaiah 38:1 τάσσω In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
- Jeremiah 2:15 τάσσω The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 3:19 τάσσω But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
- Jeremiah 5:22 τάσσω Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.
- Jeremiah 7:30 τάσσω For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
- Jeremiah 10:22 τάσσω The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
- Jeremiah 11:13 τάσσω For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
- Jeremiah 18:16 τάσσω to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
- Jeremiah 19:8 τάσσω I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.
- Lamentations 3:21 τάσσω This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
- Ezekiel 4:2 τάσσω and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
- Ezekiel 14:4 τάσσω Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
- Ezekiel 14:7 τάσσω For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
- Ezekiel 16:14 τάσσω Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 17:5 τάσσω He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.
- Ezekiel 19:5 τάσσω Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
- Ezekiel 20:28 τάσσω For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
- Ezekiel 24:7 τάσσω For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
- Ezekiel 40:4 τάσσω The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 44:5 τάσσω Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
- Hosea 2:5 τάσσω For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'
- Hosea 2:16 τάσσω It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "That you will call me 'my husband,' And no longer call me 'my master.'
- Micah 4:14 τάσσω
- Habakkuk 1:12 τάσσω Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Habakkuk 2:9 τάσσω Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
- Habakkuk 3:19 τάσσω Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer's feet, And enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5021) 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.