γαμέω gameō

Greek word for “to marry” · Strong’s G1060 · used 28 times in 25 verses

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Meaning

γαμέω, -ῶ; to marry; 1.

How it is translated

Glosses given for gameō in context, with how often each is used:

• marry 7
• shall marry 6
• marrying 4
• having married 2
• do they marry 2
• should marry 2
• having been married 2
• had married 1
• have married 1
• married 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 7 (7), Matthew 19 (2), Matthew 22 (2), Mark 10 (2), Luke 20 (2), 1 Timothy 5 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 24 (1), Mark 6 (1), Mark 12 (1)

Forms

• γαμήσῃ 4
• γαμοῦσιν 4
• γαμεῖν 3
• γαμῆσαι 2
• γαμῶν 2
• γήμας 1
• γαμοῦντες 1
• ἐγάμησεν 1
• ἔγημα 1
• ἐγάμουν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gameō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• γυνή gunē “woman” 12
• γαμίσκω gamiskō, gamizō “to give in marriage” 6
• μοιχάω moichaō “to commit adultery” 4
• ἀπολύω apoluō “to release” 5
• παρθένος parthenos “virgin” 3
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 5
• ἐάν ean “if” 5
• οὔτε oute “neither” 3
• κατακλυσμός kataklusmos “flood” 2
• κιβωτός kibōtos “ark” 2
• Νῶε Nōe “Noah” 2
• ἀπολείπω apoleipō “to leave” 2

Key verses

The verses using gameō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 19:9 — And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which…
• Matthew 19:10 — His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
• Matthew 24:38 — For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
• Mark 6:17 — For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.
• Luke 17:27 — They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them…
• Luke 20:35 — But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
• 1 Corinthians 7:10 — And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
• 1 Corinthians 7:34 — There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit:…
• 1 Corinthians 7:39 — The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
• 1 Timothy 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
• 1 Timothy 5:11 — But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
• 1 Timothy 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.