ἀπογραφή
apographḗ · G582 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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census
The event of registering persons in connection with taking a census
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρῶτοςfirst 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡμέραday 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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In the other Testament 2 words
- מִפְקָד miphqâd · H4662 · numbering, muster, appointment
- Hebrew term for census/enrollment, used for military and general population numbering (e.g., Num 1:21, 2 Chr 2:17); direct translation equivalent for Greek ἀπογραφή in census contexts
- פְּקֻדָּה pᵉquddâh · H6486 · muster, notice, providence
- Hebrew term that includes the sense of census/numbering/mustering (e.g., Exod 30:12, Num 4:2); can denote the act of registration or enrollment parallel to ἀπογραφή
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Census33.43
- In Luke 2:2, Luke notes, “this was the first census (apographḕ) taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria,” naming the official population count behind Joseph and Mary's journey to Bethlehem.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπογραφῆς, ἡ (ἀπογράφω); a. a writing off, transcript (from some pattern). b. "an…
a. a writing off, transcript (from some pattern).
b. "an enrolment (or registration) in the public records of persons together with their property and income," as the basis of an ἀποτίμησις (census or valuation), i. e. that it might appear how much tax should be levied upon each one: Lk 2:2; Acts 5:37; on the occurrence spoken of in both passages, compare Schürer, Ntl. Zeitgesch. § 17, pp. 251, 262-286, and books there mentioned; (McClellan 1:392-399; B. D. under the word Taxing).
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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