ἐπαγγελία epangelia

Greek word for “promise” · Strong’s G1860 · used 52 times in 50 verses

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Meaning

ἐπ-αγγελία, -ας, ἡ; (ἐπαγγέλλω);

How it is translated

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

• promise 40
• promises 11
• promises given 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Galatians 3 (7), Hebrews 11 (5), Romans 4 (4), Romans 9 (3), Hebrews 6 (3), Acts 2 (2), Acts 13 (2), Galatians 4 (2), 2 Peter 3 (2), Luke 24 (1)

Forms

• ἐπαγγελίας 23
• ἐπαγγελίαν 16
• ἐπαγγελία 6
• ἐπαγγελίαι 3
• ἐπαγγελιῶν 2
• ἐπαγγελίᾳ 1
• ἐπαγγελίαις 1

Words used with it

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

• Ἀβραάμ Abraam “Abraham” 9
• πίστις pistis “faith” 12
• σπέρμα sperma “seed” 6
• διαθήκη diathēkē “covenant” 5
• πατήρ patēr “father” 9
• κατά kata “according to” 9
• κληρονόμος klēronomos “heir” 4
• νόμος nomos “law” 6
• Ἰσαάκ Isaak “Isaac” 3
• ὅστις hostis, hētis “who/which” 4
• συγκληρονόμος sugklēronomos “co-heir” 2
• ἐπιτυγχάνω epitugchanō “to obtain” 2

Key verses

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

• Acts 2:33 — Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see…
• Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
• Romans 9:4 — Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
• Romans 15:8 — Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
• 2 Corinthians 7:1 — Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Galatians 3:14 — That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
• Ephesians 1:13 — In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that…
• Ephesians 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and…
• 1 Timothy 4:8 — For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
• Hebrews 9:15 — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first…
• Hebrews 10:36 — For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Hebrews 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that…

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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.