ἀσπάζομαι aspazomai

Greek word for “to pay respects to” · Strong’s G782 · used 60 times in 49 verses

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Meaning

ἀσπάζομαι depon.; to welcome, greet, salute: with accusative of person(s), al.;

How it is translated

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

• do greet 27
• greet 10
• greets 10
• having greeted 3
• greeting 2
• greeted 2
• shall greet 1
• salute 1
• may greet 1
• having said farewell 1
• 13 greet 1
• having embraced 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 16 (16), Colossians 4 (4), Acts 21 (3), 1 Corinthians 16 (2), 2 Corinthians 13 (2), Philippians 4 (2), 2 Timothy 4 (2), 1 Peter 5 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 10 (1)

Forms

• ἀσπάσασθε 17
• Ἀσπάζεται 8
• Ἀσπάσασθε 7
• ἀσπάζονται 4
• ἀσπασάμενος 3
• ἀσπασάμενοι 3
• Ἀσπάζονται 3
• ἀσπάσησθε 2
• Ἀσπάζεταί 2
• ἠσπάζοντο 1

Words used with it

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

• φίλημα philēma “kiss” 5
• ἅγιος hagios “holy” 9
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 9
• ἐκκλησία ekklēsia “assembly” 6
• ἀγαπητός agapētos “beloved” 5
• Πρίσκα Priska “Prisca” 3
• συναιχμάλωτος sunaichmalōtos “fellow prisoner” 3
• ἀλλήλων allēlōn “one another” 5
• οἶκος oikos “house” 5
• Ἀκύλας Akulas “Aquila” 3
• κατά kata “according to” 7
• συγγενής sungenēs “kindred” 3

Key verses

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

• Luke 10:4 — Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
• Acts 18:22 — And when he had landed at Cæsarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
• Acts 20:1 — And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
• Acts 21:19 — And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
• Romans 16:5 — Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
• Romans 16:7 — Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
• Romans 16:21 — Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
• Romans 16:23 — Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
• Colossians 4:10 — Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
• Colossians 4:12 — Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all…
• 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…
• Hebrews 13:24 — Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

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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.