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ἑρμηνεύω

hermēneúō · G2059 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to translate, to interpret

    To translate from one language to another

    Examples

    John 1:42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

    John 9:7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he left and washed, and came back seeing.

    Hebrews 7:2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To translate, to interpret33.145
In John 1:42, Jesus tells Simon he will be called Cephas, “which is translated Peter,” rendering a name from one language into another.
Word family 8 words

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

Ἑρμῆς Hermēs · G2060 · Hermes, the name of the messenger of the Greek deities; also of a Christian · 2×μεθερμηνεύω methermēneúō · G3177 · to translate, to interpret · 8×διερμηνεύω diermēneúō · G1329 · to translate, to interpret, to explain · 6×ἑρμηνεύωhermēneúō · G2059ἑρμηνεία hermēneía · G2058 · translating, interpreting, interpretation · 2×διερμηνευτής diermēneutḗs · G1328 · interpreter, translator · 1×Ἑρμογένης Hermogénēs · G2061 · born of Hermes; Hermogenes, an apostate Christian · 1×

Also from the root Ἑρμῆς

δυσερμήνευτος dysermḗneutos · G1421 · difficult to explain, hard to interpret · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (present passive ἑρμηνεύομαι); (from Ἑρμῆς, who was held to be the god of speech,…
: (present passive ἑρμηνεύομαι); (from Ἑρμῆς, who was held to be the god of speech, writing, eloquence, learning);
1. to explain in words, expound: (Sophocles, Euripides), Xenophon, Plato, others.
2. to interpret, i. e. to translate what has been spoken or written in a foreign tongue into the vernacular (Xenophon, an. 5, 4, 4): Jn 1:38 () R G T, (); ; Heb 7:2. (2 Esdr. 4:7 for תַּרְגֵּם.) (Compare: διερμηνεύω, μεθερμηνεύω.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Interpret, Mean, Explain3 occurrences

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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