εἰσάγω
eiságō · G1521 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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to lead into, to take into
To bring or lead into
ExamplesLuke 14:21 “And the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here those who are poor, those with disabilities, those who are blind, and those who are limping.’
Luke 22:54 Now they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance.
John 18:16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
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to bring in, to carry in
To carry or bring something into an area or structure
ExamplesLuke 2:27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law,
Acts 7:45 “Our fathers in turn received it, and they also brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations that God drove out from our fathers, until the time of David.
Acts 21:37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek?
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
11 occurrences in 8 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- Not stated: they 2
- γονεύςparents 1
- πατήρfather 1
- ΠαῦλοςPaul 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
8 occurrences in 10 groups
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 8 groups
- εἰςto+ ἱερόνtemple 2
- εἰςto+ παρεμβολήbarracks, camp 2
- εἰςto+ ΔαμασκόςDamascus 1
- εἰςto+ οἰκίαhouse, home, dwelling 1
- εἰςto+ οἰκουμένηworld, inhabited earth 1
- ἐνin+ κατάσχεσιςpossession 1
With adverbsAdverbs
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἔτιstill 1
- καίand 1
- πάλινagain, and, also 1
- ὧδεhere 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- κελεύωto order 1
- μέλλωto be about to 1
- νομίζωto suppose, to think 1
- ὀργίζωto be full of anger 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- εἰσφέρω eisphérō · G1533 · to bring in, to carry in, to cause to
- εἰσφέρω (“to carry inward”) and the target term εἰσάγω (“to lead inward”) both denote bringing or leading something inward, converging on the concept of introducing something into a location, with a subtle distinction in manner — leading versus carrying.
In the other Testament 1 word
- בּוֹא bôwʼ · H935 · to come in, to go, to arrive, to reach
- Greek εἰσάγω specifically denotes bringing/leading into (eis-agō, directional compound), while Hebrew בּוֹא covers the broader semantic range of entering, coming, and bringing—the two overlap precisely where בּוֹא takes causative/transitive force with directional motion into a bounded space.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To lead into, to take into15.173
- In Luke 22:54, those who arrested Jesus led Him away and brought Him to the high priest's house, this verb naming the act of guiding or escorting a person into a place, as also in John 18:16's account of Peter being brought into the courtyard.
- To bring in, to carry in15.194
- In Luke 2:27, Joseph and Mary brought in the child Jesus to the temple to carry out the Law's custom, this closely related sense naming the act of carrying or conveying an object or person into a place, as also in Luke 14:21's parable command to bring in the poor and disabled and Acts 7:45's account of the tabernacle being brought in with Joshua.
Word family 51 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 2 aorist εἰσήγαγον; (present passive ἐισάγομαι); (from Homer down); the Sept. chiefly…
1. to lead in: τινα followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, Lk 22:54 (Tr marginal reading brackets); Acts 9:8; Acts 21:28, Acts 21:29, Acts 21:37; Acts 22:24 (for Rec. ἄγεσθαι); ὧδε Lk 14:21; the place into which not being expressly noted: Jn 18:16 (namely, εἰς τήν αὐλήν); Heb 1:6 ὅταν... εἰσαγάγῃ, λέγει, God, having in view the time when he shall have again brought in the firstborn into the world (i. e., at the time of the παρουσία) says etc.
2. to bring in, the place into which not being expressly stated: Acts 7:45 (namely, εἰς τήν γῆν); Lk 2:27 (namely, εἰς τό ἱερόν). (Compare: παρεισάγω.)
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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