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ἀποκρίνομαι

to answer

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

G611 Strong's Greek
apokrínomai Transliteration
/ap-ok-ree'-nom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 233 appearances

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About this entry

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“to answer” is the headline sense of the Greek verb αποκρινομαι (apokrínomai). Translators differ — “answered” in the King James Version, then “replied” (Berean Standard Bible) and “answering” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 233 verses across 7 books, a common footprint. It concentrates in John, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 233-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
answer
Modern gloss
to answer
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G611 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 →

233
distinct verses
The word appears in 233 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:15
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:15.
Revelation 7:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 7:13.
#68
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 68 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 233 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 211 · 91%
  • Acts 20 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 1 · 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 233 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 211 verses · 91%
  • Johannine 79 verses · 34%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 67 verses · 29%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 0%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 0%

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: Answered 145×, He answered 36×, Answering 24×
  • American Standard Version: Answered 126×, He answered 30×, Answering 14×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Replied 68×, Answered 48×, Said 12×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Answering 104×, Answered 72×, Replied 17×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G611 across 249 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Answered” 145×
  • “He answered” 36×
  • “Answering” 24×
  • “They answered” 14×
  • “Answer” 8×
  • “He answering” 5×
  • “Answerest thou” 3×
  • “Answereth” 2×
  • “He answereth” 2×
  • “Shall answer” 2×

Plus 8 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.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G611 across 238 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Answered” 126×
  • “He answered” 30×
  • “Answering” 14×
  • “They answered” 11×
  • “Answer” 8×
  • “Answereth” 5×
  • “Said” 5×
  • “Answerest thou” 4×
  • “He said” 4×
  • “Therefore answered” 3×
  • “Unto” 3×
  • “He answereth” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 17 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 G611 across 206 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Replied” 68×
  • “Answered” 48×
  • “Said” 12×
  • “Asked” 10×
  • “He replied” 10×
  • “They answered” 7×
  • “He answered” 6×
  • “They replied” 5×
  • “Answer” 4×
  • “Have you no answer” 3×
  • “Gave no answer” 2×
  • “Had answered” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 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 10 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G611 across 239 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Answering” 104×
  • “Answered” 72×
  • “Replied” 17×
  • “Answer” 9×
  • “They answered” 6×
  • “He answered” 5×
  • “Responded” 3×
  • “Did” 2×
  • “Do you” 2×
  • “Do you answer” 2×
  • “He will answer” 2×
  • “Will answer” 2×

Plus 13 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 give an answer to a question proposed, to answer
  2. to begin to speak, but always where something has preceded (either said or done) to which the remarks refer

Word origin

Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 3:944,*

From G575 and κρινω krino; to conclude for oneself that is (by implication) to respond ; by hebraism (compare [ H6030 ]) to begin to speak (where an address is expected): - answer.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 22 distinct written forms G611 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀποκριθεὶς apokritheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:15 94
ἀπεκρίθη apekríthē Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 15:23 80
ἀπεκρίθησαν apekríthēsan Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 12:38 19
ἀποκριθέντες apokrithéntes Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 21:27 7
ἀπεκρίνατο apekrínato Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 27:12 6
ἀποκρίνεται apokrínetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 6:7 4
ἀποκρίνῃ apokrínē Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 26:62 4
ἀπεκρίθην apekríthēn Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 22:8 2
ἀποκρίθητέ apokríthēté Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Mark 11:29 2
ἀποκριθήσονται apokrithḗsontai Verb, Future, Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 25:37 2
Ἀποκριθεὶς Apokritheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 9:49 2
ἀπεκρίθης apekríthēs Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 10:28 1
ἀποκρίνεσθαι apokrínesthai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive Colossians 4:6 1
ἀποκριθήσεται apokrithḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 25:45 1
ἀποκριθεῖσα apokritheîsa Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Luke 1:60 1
ἀποκριθὲν apokrithèn Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Acts 19:15 1
ἀποκριθῆναι apokrithē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Infinitive Matthew 22:46 1
ἀποκριθῆτε apokrithē̂te Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 22:68 1
ἀποκριθῇ apokrithē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 9:6 1
ἀποκριθῶσιν apokrithō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Mark 14:40 1
Ἀπεκρίθη Apekríthē Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 24:10 1
Ἀπεκρίνατο Apekrínato Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 5:19 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G611, 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

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Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 113 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αποκρινομαι appears 227 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 215 verses in 31 books.

227
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
215
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
31 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G611) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 215. 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 (G611) 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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