νομίζω nomizō

Greek word for “to think” · Strong’s G3543 · used 15 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

νομίζω; (νόμος); 1. to practise, hold by custom: (Rec., but see infr.).;

How it is translated

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

• supposing 4
• thought 2
• may think 1
• may you think 1
• having supposed 1
• supposed 1
• accustomed 1
• consider 1
• think 1
• supposes 1
• holding 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 16 (2), 1 Corinthians 7 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 10 (1), Matthew 20 (1), Luke 2 (1), Luke 3 (1), Acts 7 (1), Acts 8 (1), Acts 14 (1)

Forms

• νομίσητε 2
• ἐνόμισαν 1
• νομίσαντες 1
• ἐνομίζετο 1
• ἐνόμιζεν 1
• ἐνόμισας 1
• νομίζοντες 1
• ἐνομίζομεν 1
• νομίζων 1
• νομίζειν 1

Words used with it

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

• εἶναι einai “to exist” 5
• μάχαιρα machaira “sword” 2
• ὀφείλω opheilō “to owe” 2
• ὑπάρχω huparchō “be already” 2
• ἔξω exō “out/outside(r)” 2
• σύν sun “with” 2
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 2
• πόλις polis “city” 2
• οὕτως ohutō, ohutōs “thus(-ly)” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 2

Key verses

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

• Matthew 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Matthew 10:34 — Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
• Luke 3:23 — And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
• Acts 7:25 — For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
• Acts 8:20 — But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
• Acts 14:19 — And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had…
• Acts 16:13 — And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
• Acts 16:27 — And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that…
• Acts 17:29 — Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
• 1 Corinthians 7:26 — I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
• 1 Corinthians 7:36 — But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he…
• 1 Timothy 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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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.