τιμάω
to honor
‘to honor’ 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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective 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
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 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.
1 verse where G5091 appears in the Future tense in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
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.
τιμαω — transliterated timáō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to honor.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “honour” in the King James Version, “honor” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 16 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Matthew. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5091 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #607
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 607 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 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 16 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 75%
- Johannine 3 verses · 19%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 13%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 6%
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: Honour 11×, Honoureth 3×
- American Standard Version: Honor 10×, Honoreth 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Honor 10×, Does not honor 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Honor 11×, Honors 2×, Will honor 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5091 across 22 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5091 across 21 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5091 across 19 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5091 across 24 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.
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 estimate, fix the value
- to honour, to have in honour, to revere, venerate
Word origin
Derived from τιμιος (tímios) (G5093) — precious.
From G5093 ; to prize that is fix a valuation upon; by implication to revere : - honour value.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms G5091 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τίμα tíma | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 15:4 | 7 |
| τιμᾷ timâ | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 15:8 | 3 |
| τιμῶσι timō̂si | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 5:23 | 2 |
| τιμήσει timḗsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 15:5 | 2 |
| τετιμημένου tetimēménou | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:9 | 1 |
| τιμήσατε timḗsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Peter 2:17 | 1 |
| τιμᾶτε timâte | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Peter 2:17 | 1 |
| τιμῶ timō̂ | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | John 8:49 | 1 |
| τιμῶν timō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 5:23 | 1 |
| ἐτίμησαν etímēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 28:10 | 1 |
| ἐτιμήσαντο etimḗsanto | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 27:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5091, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τιμαω appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 9 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- 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
- Exodus 20:12 τιμάω
- Leviticus 19:32 τιμάω
- Numbers 22:17 τιμάω
- Deuteronomy 5:16 τιμάω
- Esther 9:3 τιμάω
- Psalms 138:17 τιμάω
- Proverbs 3:9 τιμάω
- Isaiah 29:13 τιμάω
- Daniel 11:38 τιμάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5091) 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.
- Exodus 20:12 τιμάω "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Leviticus 19:32 τιμάω You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 27:8 τιμάω But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.
- Leviticus 27:12 τιμάω and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so shall it be.
- Leviticus 27:14 τιμάω "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.
- Numbers 22:17 τιμάω for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.
- Numbers 22:37 τιμάω Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?
- Numbers 24:11 τιμάω Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.
- Deuteronomy 5:16 τιμάω "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Esther 9:3 τιμάω All the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and those who did the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen on them.
- Psalms 138:17 τιμάω
- Proverbs 3:9 τιμάω Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:
- Proverbs 4:8 τιμάω Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
- Proverbs 6:8 τιμάω Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
- Proverbs 7:1 τιμάω My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
- Proverbs 14:31 τιμάω He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, But he who is kind to the needy honors him.
- Proverbs 15:22 τιμάω Where there is no counsel, plans fail; But in a multitude of counselors they are established.
- Proverbs 25:2 τιμάω It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
- Proverbs 25:27 τιμάω It is not good to eat much honey; Nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
- Proverbs 27:18 τιμάω Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
- Proverbs 27:26 τιμάω The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field.
- Isaiah 29:13 τιμάω The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];
- Isaiah 55:2 τιμάω Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
- Daniel 11:38 τιμάω But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5091) 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.
