βεβαιόω
to confirm
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G950 appears in the Present tense, across 4 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.
Mark 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
Hebrews 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.
βεβαιοω — transliterated bebaióō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to confirm.” Debuting at Mark 16:20, it then recurs through the corpus. With 8 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in 1 Corinthians (25% of all occurrences). Sharing its root, it stands alongside βεβαιος and βεβαιωσις. 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 G950 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 25%
- Hebrews 2 verses 25%
- Mark 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 63%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 25%
- Gospels 1 verse · 13%
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: Confirm 2×, Was confirmed 2×
- American Standard Version: Was confirmed 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Was confirmed 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Confirm 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G950 across 9 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 G950 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G950 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G950 across 9 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.
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 make firm, establish, confirm, make sure
Word origin
Derived from βεβαιος (bébaios) (G949) — firm.
From G949 ; to stabilitate (figuratively): - confirm (e-) stablish.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G950 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐβεβαιώθη ebebaiṓthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 1:6 | 2 |
| βεβαιούμενοι bebaioúmenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Colossians 2:7 | 1 |
| βεβαιοῦντος bebaioûntos | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Mark 16:20 | 1 |
| βεβαιοῦσθαι bebaioûsthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Hebrews 13:9 | 1 |
| βεβαιώσει bebaiṓsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 1:8 | 1 |
| βεβαιῶν bebaiō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 1:21 | 1 |
| βεβαιῶσαι bebaiō̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Romans 15:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G950, 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 βεβαιοω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 1 book.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 40:13 βεβαιόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G950) 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.
- Psalms 40:13 βεβαιόω Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
- Psalms 118:28 βεβαιόω You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G950) 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.
