γραφή
graphḗ · G1124 · Greek · 50 occurrences
Meanings
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passage, part of a document, part of Scripture
A particular portion or unit of discourse
ExamplesLuke 4:21 Now He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
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Scripture, Scripture passage
A particular passage of the OT
ExamplesMark 12:10 “Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE;
Luke 4:21 Now He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
John 2:22 So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
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the Scriptures, the holy writings
(Pl; ῶν f) The sacred writings of the OT
ExamplesMatthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?
Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, since you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Matthew 26:54 “How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- προφήτηςprophet 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- οὗτοςthis 3
- ἕτεροςother, another, different 1
- λοιποίthe rest, other 1
- ἅγιοςholy 1
Named alongside itApposition
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- λέγωto say 2
- ἀγαπάωto love 1
- προέπωto say already 1
What it doesIt is the subject
24 occurrences in 8 groups
- πληρόωto fulfill, to fill 10
- λέγωto say 8
- ἔπωto say 2
- δύναμαιcan 1
- λύωto untie 1
- προευαγγελίζομαιto bring the good news ahead of time 1
What is done to itIt is the object
9 occurrences in 7 groups
- εἴδωto know 3
- διανοίγωto open 1
- ἐρευνάωto try to learn 1
- ἀναγινώσκωto read 1
- ἀνακρίνωto examine, to question 1
- πιστεύωto believe 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- θεόπνευστοςinspired by God 1
- ὠφέλιμοςadvantage 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐνin 9
- κατάaccording to, against, down 6
- ἀπόfrom 4
- διάthrough 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- παράκλησιςencouragement, comfort 1
- περιοχήpassage 1
- προφητείαprophecy 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- כָּתָב kâthâb · H3791 · record, writing system, script
- כָּתָב (kâthâb, H3791) כָּתָב denotes a written document or writing in general Hebrew usage, while γραφή (graphḗ, G1124) γραφή in NT contexts specifically refers to holy Scripture (the sacred writings), representing a semantic narrowing from the broader Hebrew term to the specialized Greek designation for authoritative religious texts.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Passage, part of a document, part of Scripture33.10
- Used of a specific portion of the sacred writings, as of the Scripture cited in Mark 12:10 about the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone.
- Scripture, Scripture passage33.53
- Used of the sacred writings as an authoritative body, as of Jesus asking whether the crowd has never read in the Scriptures in Matthew 21:42 and His rebuke that the Sadducees do not understand the Scriptures in Matthew 22:29.
- (it) is written, Scripture33.54
- Used of Scripture's fulfillment as a governing pattern, as of all that has taken place so that the Scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled in Matthew 26:56 and the question how the Scriptures would then be fulfilled in Matthew 26:54.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γραφῆς, ἡ (γράφω, cf. γλυφή and γλύφω); a. a writing, thing written (from Sophocles…
a. a writing, thing written (from Sophocles down): πᾶσα γραφή every scripture namely, of the O. T., 2 Tim 3:16; plural γραφαί ἅγιαι, holy scriptures, the sacred books (of the O. T.), Rom 1:2; προφητικαι, Rom 16:26; αἱ γραφαί τῶν προφητῶν, Mt 26:56.
b. ἡ γραφή, the Scripture κατ' ἐξοχήν, the holy scripture (of the O. T.) — and used to denote either the book itself, or its contents (some would restrict the singular γραφή always to a particular passage; see Lightfoot on Gal 3:22): Jn 7:38; Jn 10:35; Acts 8:32; Rom 4:3; Gal 3:22; Gal 4:30; Jas 2:8; 1 Pet 2:6; 2 Pet 1:20; also in plural αἱ γραφαί: Mt 21:42; Mt 26:54; Mk 14:49; Lk 24:27; Jn 5:39; Acts 17:2, Acts 17:11; Acts 18:24, Acts 18:28; 1 Cor 15:3f; once αἱ γραφαί comprehends also the books of the N. T. already begun to be collected into a canon, 2 Pet 3:16; by metonymy, ἡ γραφή is used for God speaking in it: Rom 9:17; Gal 4:30; ἡ γραφή is introduced as a person and distinguished from God in Gal 3:8. εἰδέναι τάς γραφάς, Mt 22:29; Mk 12:24; συνιέναι, Lk 24:45.
c. a certain portion or section of holy Scripture: Mk 12:10; Lk 4:21; Jn 19:37; Acts 1:16. (Cf. B. D. under the word .)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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