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ἀπαγγέλλω

to report

‘to report’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G518 Strong's Greek
apangéllō Transliteration
/ap-ang-el'-lo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 47 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.

At its core, απαγγελλω (apangéllō) means “to report.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “told” in the King James Version, “reported” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 47 verses across 9 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Acts (34%), then Luke and Matthew. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
bring word
Modern gloss
to report
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 G518 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 →

47
distinct verses
The word appears in 47 distinct verses.
9 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:8
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:8.
1 John 1:3
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 John 1:3.
#326
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 326 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 47 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 26 · 55%
  • Acts 16 · 34%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 4%
  • General Epistles 3 · 6%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 47 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 27 verses · 57%
  • Gospels 26 verses · 55%
  • Johannine 4 verses · 9%
  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 4%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 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: Told 17×, Tell 6×, Shewed 5×
  • American Standard Version: Told 16×, Tell 7×, Reported 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Reported 10×, Report 5×, Tell 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Reported 14×, Report 10×, They reported 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G518 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Told” 17×
  • “Tell” 6×
  • “Shewed” 5×
  • “Shew” 3×
  • “Bring” 2×

Plus 16 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 G518 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Told” 16×
  • “Tell” 7×
  • “Reported” 2×
  • “They told” 2×
  • “Word” 2×

Plus 18 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 G518 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Reported” 10×
  • “Report” 5×
  • “Tell” 5×
  • “Announced” 3×
  • “Informed” 3×
  • “Told” 3×
  • “We proclaim” 2×

Plus 15 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 G518 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Reported” 14×
  • “Report” 10×
  • “They reported” 5×
  • “Reported it” 3×
  • “This” 3×
  • “It” 2×
  • “Reporting” 2×

Plus 15 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.

  1. to bring tidings (from a person or a thing), bring word, report
  2. to proclaim, to make known openly, declare

Word origin

Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 02:04,1

From G575 and the base of G32 ; to announce : - bring word (again) declare report shew (again) tell.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 18 distinct written forms G518 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀπήγγειλαν apḗngeilan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 8:33 15
ἀπήγγειλεν apḗngeilen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 16:10 10
ἀπαγγείλατε apangeílate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 11:4 4
ἀπαγγέλλομεν apangéllomen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 John 1:2 2
ἀπαγγελῶ apangelō̂ Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 16:25 2
ἀπαγγεῖλαι apangeîlai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 28:8 2
ἀγγέλλουσα angéllousa Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine John 20:18 1
ἀπάγγειλον apángeilon Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Mark 5:19 1
ἀπήγγελλον apḗngellon Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 26:20 1
ἀπαγγέλλει apangéllei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 17:30 1
ἀπαγγέλλοντας apangéllontas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Acts 15:27 1
ἀπαγγέλλοντες apangéllontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 13:1 1
ἀπαγγέλλουσιν apangéllousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 Thessalonians 1:9 1
ἀπαγγέλλων apangéllōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 Corinthians 14:25 1
ἀπαγγείλατέ apangeílaté Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 2:8 1
ἀπαγγελεῖ apangeleî Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:18 1
ἀπαγγεῖλαί apangeîlaí Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Acts 23:19 1
ἀπηγγέλη apēngélē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:20 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G518, 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

+85 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 111 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word απαγγελλω appears 201 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 189 verses in 28 books.

201
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
189
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
28 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G518) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 189. 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 (G518) 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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