ἁρμόζω
to betroth
‘to betroth’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G718 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
2 Corinthians 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.
αρμοζω — transliterated harmózō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to betroth.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Corinthians. A true hapax — its single appearance is 2 Corinthians 11:2. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G718 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: I have espoused 1×
- American Standard Version: I espoused 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I promised 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I joined 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G718 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G718 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G718 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G718 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- of carpenter's, fastening together beams and planks to build houses, ships, etc.
- to betroth a daughter to any one
Word origin
Derived from αρμος (harmós) (G719) — joint.
From G719 ; to joint that is (figuratively) to woo (reflexively to betroth ): - espouse.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αρμοζω appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 4 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 6:5 ἁρμόζω
- Psalms 151:2 ἁρμόζω
- Proverbs 8:30 ἁρμόζω
- Nahum 3:8 ἁρμόζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G718) 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.
- 2 Samuel 6:5 ἁρμόζω David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all manner of [instruments made of] fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
- 2 Samuel 6:14 ἁρμόζω David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
- Psalms 151:2 ἁρμόζω
- Proverbs 8:30 ἁρμόζω Then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, Always rejoicing before him,
- Proverbs 17:7 ἁρμόζω Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, Much less do lying lips fit a prince.
- Proverbs 19:14 ἁρμόζω House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
- Nahum 3:8 ἁρμόζω Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G718) 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.
