φθέγγομαι
to sound
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
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- 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).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G5350 appears in the Present tense, across 2 books. 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.
Acts 1 verse
2 Peter 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.
φθεγγομαι — transliterated phthéngomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to sound.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Peter (67% of all occurrences). Debuting at Acts 4:18, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come φεγγος and φθογγος. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5350 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
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: Speak 1×, Speaking 1×, They speak 1×
- American Standard Version: Spake 1×, Speak 1×, Uttering 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Speak 1×, Spoke 1×, Words they appeal 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having spoken 1×, Speak 1×, Speaking 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5350 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5350 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5350 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5350 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 give out a sound, noise or cry
Word origin
Derived from φεγγος (phéngos) (G5338) — light.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5350 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φθέγγεσθαι phthéngesthai | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive | Acts 4:18 | 1 |
| φθεγγόμενοι phthengómenoi | Verb, Present, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Peter 2:18 | 1 |
| φθεγξάμενον phthenxámenon | Verb, Aorist, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 2 Peter 2:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5350, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word φθεγγομαι appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 7 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- 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
- Job 13:7 φθέγγομαι
- Psalms 77:2 φθέγγομαι
- Jeremiah 9:16 φθέγγομαι
- Lamentations 1:12 φθέγγομαι
- Amos 1:2 φθέγγομαι
- Nahum 2:8 φθέγγομαι
- Habakkuk 2:11 φθέγγομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5350) 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.
- Job 13:7 φθέγγομαι Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?
- Psalms 77:2 φθέγγομαι In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 93:4 φθέγγομαι Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
- Psalms 118:172 φθέγγομαι
- Jeremiah 9:16 φθέγγομαι I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
- Jeremiah 28:14 φθέγγομαι For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.
- Lamentations 1:12 φθέγγομαι Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
- Amos 1:2 φθέγγομαι He said: "Yahweh will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; And the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, And the top of Carmel will wither."
- Nahum 2:8 φθέγγομαι But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.
- Habakkuk 2:11 φθέγγομαι For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5350) 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.
