γραμματεύς grammateus

Greek word for “scribe” · Strong’s G1122 · used 63 times in 63 verses

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Meaning

γραμματεύς, -έως (accusative pl., -εῖς, see Bl., §8, 2), ὁ;

How it is translated

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

• scribes 58
• scribe 3
• town clerk 1
• scribe? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 23 (8), Mark 12 (4), Luke 20 (4), Mark 14 (3), Mark 2 (2), Mark 7 (2), Mark 9 (2), Mark 11 (2), Mark 15 (2), Luke 5 (2)

Forms

• γραμματεῖς 39
• γραμματέων 17
• γραμματεὺς 3
• γραμματεῦσιν 2
• γραμματεύς 2

Words used with it

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

• ἀρχιερεύς archiereus “high-priest” 22
• Φαρισαῖος Pharisaios “Pharisee” 20
• πρεσβύτερος presbuteros “elder” 13
• ὑποκριτής hupokritēs “hypocrite” 6
• Ἱεροσόλυμα Hierosoluma “Jerusalem” 7
• οὐαί ouai “woe!” 6
• λαός laos “a people” 7
• διδάσκω didaskō “to teach” 6
• δεῖ dei “be necessary” 6
• συνάγω sunagō “to assemble” 5
• ἱερόν hieros “temple” 5
• ἀποκτείνω apokteinō “to kill” 5

Key verses

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

• Matthew 5:20 — For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of…
• Matthew 13:52 — Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth…
• Matthew 16:21 — From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and…
• Matthew 21:15 — And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David;…
• Matthew 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them…
• Matthew 23:23 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment,…
• Matthew 23:34 — Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your…
• Mark 8:31 — And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed,…
• Mark 10:33 — Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death,…
• Luke 9:22 — Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
• Luke 11:53 — And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
• 1 Corinthians 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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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.