μετακαλέω
metakaléō · G3333 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to summon, to tell to come
To summon someone, with considerable insistence and authority
ExamplesActs 7:14 “Then Joseph sent word and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five people in all.
Acts 10:32 ‘Therefore send some men to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’
Acts 20:17 From Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the church.
How it’s used In 4 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
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἸωσήφJoseph 1
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἸακώβJacob 1
- πρεσβύτεροςelder, older 1
- ΣίμωνSimon 1
- σύyou 1
- συγγένειαrelatives 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin+ ψυχήlife, soul 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- μεταπέμπω metapémpō · G3343 · to send for, to summon
- Both verbs mean 'to summon' or 'send for' someone to come from elsewhere. μεταπέμπω emphasizes the sending action while μετακαλέω emphasizes the calling action, but they are functionally interchangeable in many contexts of summoning.
- φωνέω phōnéō · G5455 · to call, to summon, to cry out
- A general verb for calling or summoning by voice. φωνέω denotes calling out or summoning by vocal address, and overlaps with μετακαλέω when used to summon someone to a location, though φωνέω covers a broader range of vocal calling (including addressing, naming, and producing sound) while μετακαλέω specifically emphasizes summoning from one place to another.
In the other Testament 1 word
- קָרָא qârâʼ · H7121 · to cry out, to read, to recite
- Standard Hebrew verb for 'to call' or 'summon,' the most common translation equivalent for Greek μετακαλέω in contexts of summoning someone to come to a different location.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To summon, to tell to come33.311
- This lexeme denotes summoning someone to come. Acts 10:32 quotes the centurion's instruction, “send some men to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you.”
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μετακάλω: middle, 1 aorist μετεκαλεσαμην; 1 future μετακαλέσομαί; to call from one place…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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