ἀποκρίνομαι
to answer
‘to answer’ 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
- 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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G611 appears in the Book of Mark — 30 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.
Mark
- Mark 3:33 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
- Mark 6:37 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
- Mark 7:28 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
- Mark 8:4 ἀπεκρίθησαν aor mid.dep ind 3pl His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
- Mark 8:29 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."
- Mark 9:5 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
- Mark 9:6 ἀποκριθῇ aor pass.dep subj 3sg For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
- Mark 9:17 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
- Mark 9:19 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
- Mark 10:3 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
- Mark 10:24 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
- Mark 10:51 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."
- Mark 11:14 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.
- Mark 11:22 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God.
- Mark 11:29 ἀποκρίθητέ aor pass.dep impv 2pl Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
- Mark 11:30 ἀποκρίθητέ aor pass.dep impv 2pl The baptism of John -- was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."
- Mark 11:33 ἀποκριθέντες aor pass.dep ptcp nom pl masc They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."
- Mark 12:28 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
- Mark 12:29 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
- Mark 12:34 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.
- Mark 12:35 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
- Mark 14:40 ἀποκριθῶσιν aor pass.dep subj 3pl Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.
- Mark 14:48 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?
- Mark 14:60 ἀποκρίνῃ pres mid/pass.dep ind 2sg The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"
- Mark 14:61 ἀπεκρίνατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
- Mark 15:2 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
- Mark 15:4 ἀποκρίνῃ pres mid/pass.dep ind 2sg Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
- Mark 15:5 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
- Mark 15:9 ἀπεκρίθη aor mid.dep ind 3sg Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
- Mark 15:12 ἀποκριθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
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 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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- to give an answer to a question proposed, to answer
- 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.
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.
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
- απαγγελλω apangéllō G518 to report
- απαγχομαι apánchomai G519 to strangle
- απαγω apágō G520 to lead away
- απαιρω apaírō G522 to take away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- απαλλασσω apallássō G525 to depart
- απαλλοτριοω apallotrióō G526 to estrange
- απανταω apantáō G528 to meet
- απαρνεομαι aparnéomai G533 to deny
- απαρτι apárti G534 henceforth
- απαρχη aparchḗ G536 to offer firstfruits
- απαυγασμα apaúgasma G541 brightness
- απειδω apeídō G542 to look away
- απειμι ápeimi G548 to depart
- απειμι ápeimi G549 to depart
- απειπομην apeipómēn G550 to declare
- απεκδεχομαι apekdéchomai G553 waiting for
- απεκδυομαι apekdýomai G554 to despoil
- απελαυνω apelaúnō G556 to drive away
- απελεγμος apelegmós G557 censure
- απελευθερος apeleútheros G558 freedman
- απελπιζω apelpízō G560 not despairing
- απεναντι apénanti G561 opposite
+85 more words share this root (not shown).
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
- Genesis 18:9 ἀποκρίνω
- Exodus 4:1 ἀποκρίνω
- Numbers 11:28 ἀποκρίνω
- Deuteronomy 1:14 ἀποκρίνω
- Joshua 1:16 ἀποκρίνω
- Judges 5:29 ἀποκρίνω
- Ruth 2:6 ἀποκρίνω
- 1 Samuel 1:15 ἀποκρίνω
- 2 Samuel 1:16 ἀποκρίνω
- 1 Kings 1:28 ἀποκρίνω
- 2 Kings 1:10 ἀποκρίνω
- 1 Chronicles 10:13 ἀποκρίνω
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.
- Genesis 18:9 ἀποκρίνω They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."
- Genesis 18:27 ἀποκρίνω Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
- Genesis 23:5 ἀποκρίνω The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
- Genesis 23:10 ἀποκρίνω Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
- Genesis 23:14 ἀποκρίνω Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
- Genesis 24:50 ἀποκρίνω Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.
- Genesis 27:37 ἀποκρίνω Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:39 ἀποκρίνω Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
- Genesis 31:14 ἀποκρίνω Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
- Genesis 31:31 ἀποκρίνω Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
- Genesis 31:36 ἀποκρίνω Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
- Genesis 31:43 ἀποκρίνω Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Genesis 34:13 ἀποκρίνω The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
- Genesis 40:18 ἀποκρίνω Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.
- Genesis 41:16 ἀποκρίνω Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
- Genesis 42:22 ἀποκρίνω Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
- Genesis 45:3 ἀποκρίνω Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
- Exodus 4:1 ἀποκρίνω Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"
- Exodus 19:8 ἀποκρίνω All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
- Exodus 19:19 ἀποκρίνω When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
- Exodus 21:5 ἀποκρίνω But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'
- Exodus 24:3 ἀποκρίνω Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
- Numbers 11:28 ἀποκρίνω Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
- Numbers 13:26 ἀποκρίνω They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
- Numbers 22:8 ἀποκρίνω He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
- Numbers 22:18 ἀποκρίνω Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
- Numbers 23:26 ἀποκρίνω But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?
- Numbers 32:31 ἀποκρίνω The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
- Deuteronomy 1:14 ἀποκρίνω You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.
- Deuteronomy 1:41 ἀποκρίνω Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.
- Deuteronomy 20:11 ἀποκρίνω It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
- Deuteronomy 21:7 ἀποκρίνω and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
- Deuteronomy 25:9 ἀποκρίνω then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.
- Deuteronomy 26:5 ἀποκρίνω You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
- Deuteronomy 27:14 ἀποκρίνω The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
- Deuteronomy 27:15 ἀποκρίνω Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Joshua 1:16 ἀποκρίνω They answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
- Joshua 7:20 ἀποκρίνω Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
- Joshua 9:24 ἀποκρίνω They answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
- Joshua 14:7 ἀποκρίνω Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
- Joshua 22:21 ἀποκρίνω Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
- Joshua 22:32 ἀποκρίνω Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
- Joshua 24:16 ἀποκρίνω The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;
- Judges 5:29 ἀποκρίνω Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
- Judges 7:14 ἀποκρίνω His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.
- Judges 8:8 ἀποκρίνω He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
- Judges 18:14 ἀποκρίνω Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
- Judges 19:28 ἀποκρίνω He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got him to his place.
- Judges 20:4 ἀποκρίνω The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
- Ruth 2:6 ἀποκρίνω The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
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.
