ἀσπάζομαι
to draw
‘to draw’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
33 distinct verses where G782 appears in the Aorist tense, across 13 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.
Matthew 2 verses
Luke 2 verses
Acts 6 verses
- Acts 18:22 ἀσπασάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
- Acts 20:1 ἀσπασάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
- Acts 21:6 ἀπησπασάμεθα aor mid.dep ind 1pl After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
- Acts 21:7 ἀσπασάμενοι aor mid.dep ptcp nom pl masc When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
- Acts 21:19 ἀσπασάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
- Acts 25:13 ἀσπασάμενοι aor mid.dep ptcp nom pl masc Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
Romans 13 verses
- Romans 16:3 Ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
- Romans 16:5 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
- Romans 16:6 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
- Romans 16:7 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
- Romans 16:8 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
- Romans 16:9 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
- Romans 16:10 ἀσπάσασθε ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
- Romans 16:11 ἀσπάσασθε ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
- Romans 16:12 ἀσπάσασθε ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
- Romans 16:13 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
- Romans 16:14 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
- Romans 16:15 ἀσπάσασθε aor mid.dep impv 2pl Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
- Romans 16:16 ἀσπάσασθε ἀσπάζονται aor mid.dep impv 2pl pres mid/pass.dep ind 3pl Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 11:13 ἀσπασάμενοι aor mid.dep ptcp nom pl masc These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Hebrews 13:24 ἀσπάσασθε ἀσπάζονται aor mid.dep impv 2pl pres mid/pass.dep ind 3pl Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
1 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.
ασπαζομαι — transliterated aspázomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to draw.” Debuting at Matthew 5:47, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 48 verses across 17 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 48-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G782 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 →
- 48
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 48 distinct verses.
- 17 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
- #272
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 272 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 48 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 16 verses 33%
- Acts 6 verses 13%
- Colossians 4 verses 8%
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 48 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 30 verses · 63%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 17%
- Gospels 6 verses · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 8%
- Johannine 2 verses · 4%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 4%
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: Salute 31×, Greet 12×, Saluted 4×
- American Standard Version: Salute 42×, Saluteth 7×, Saluted 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Greet 30×, Send you greetings 11×, Sends you greetings 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Greet 41×, Greets 8×, Having greeted 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G782 across 60 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G782 across 60 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G782 across 60 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G782 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 salute one, greet, bid welcome, wish well to
- to receive joyfully, welcome
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 21 distinct written forms G782 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 G782, 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
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδης háidēs G86 hell
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδικος ádikos G94 unjust
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αδυνατος adýnatos G102 weak
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 177 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ασπαζομαι appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 18:7 ἀσπάζομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G782) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G782) 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.
