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κήρυγμα

kḗrygma · G2782 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. preaching, what is preached

    (Derivative of κηρύσσω ‘to preach,’) The content of what is preached

    Examples

    Matthew 12:41 “The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

    Luke 11:32 “The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

    Romans 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Preaching, what is preached33.258
κήρυγμα names the content of a public proclamation, especially the gospel message itself. Matthew 12:41 has Jesus declaring that the Ninevites “repented at the preaching of Jonah,” their repentance responding to the actual content of what Jonah proclaimed to them.
Word family 4 words

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

κηρύσσω kērýssō · G2784 · to announce, to proclaim, to tell · 61×κήρυγμαkḗrygma · G2782κῆρυξ kēryx · G2783 · preacher · 3×προκηρύσσω prokērýssō · G4296 · to preach beforehand · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κηρύγματος, τό (κηρύσσω), in Greek writings especially Attic, that which is promulgated…
κηρύγματος, τό (κηρύσσω), in Greek writings especially Attic, that which is promulgated by a herald or public crier, a proclamation by herald; in the N. T. the message or proclamation by the heralds of God or Chris t: thus the proclamation of the necessity of repentance and reformation made by the prophet Jonah (A. V. preaching), τό κήρυγμα Ἰωνᾶ, Mt 12:41; Lk 11:32 (Jon 3:4); the announcement of salvation procured by Christ and to be had through him: absolutely, 1 Cor 1:21; Tit 1:3; with the genitive of the subjunctive, made by one, 1 Cor 2:4; 1 Cor 15:14; with the genitive of the object Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, concerning Jesus Christ, Rom 16:25, cf. Philippi at the passage; (τῆς αἰωνίου σωτηρίας, Mark 16 WH in (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'); the act of publishing, absolutely, 2 Tim 4:17 (but R. V. that the message might be fully proclaimed; see πληροφορέω, a.).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Preach, Proclaim7 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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