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ἀκμάζω

akmázō · G187 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to ripen, to be ripe

    To become or to be ripe

    Examples

    Revelation 14:18 Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.”

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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.

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.

Near synonyms 1 word
τελειόω teleióō · G5048 · to make perfect, to perfect, causing perfection
Greek verb denoting bringing to completion or maturity; while τελειόω is far more common and applies broadly to moral, spiritual, or physical completion, it shares with ἀκμάζω the core idea of reaching a mature or complete state, though τελειόω lacks the specific agricultural connotation of ripening.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To ripen, to be ripe23.197
In Revelation 14:18, an angel calls for the grape harvest to be gathered “because her grapes are ripe (ḗkmasan),” where the word describes fruit that has reached full ripeness.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀκμήν akmḗn · G188 · still, yet · 1×ἀκμάζωakmázō · G187ὑπέρακμος hypérakmos · G5230 · past one’s prime, past marriageable age · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ή᾿κμασα; (ἀκμή); to flourish, come to maturity: Rev 14:18. (Very frequent in…
: 1 aorist ή᾿κμασα; (ἀκμή); to flourish, come to maturity: Rev 14:18. (Very frequent in secular writings.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Ripen, Produce Fruit, Bear Seed1 occurrence

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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