ἁρμόζω
harmózō · G718 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be engaged, to be promised in marriage
To promise a person for marriage
Examples2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
To or for whomIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνήρman, husband 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 1 word
- μνηστεύω mnēsteúō · G3423 · to be engaged, to be promised in marriage
- Both terms denote the concept of betrothal — being pledged in marriage. The target's underlying image is one of fitting or joining together, while μνηστεύω denotes the formal pledge itself, but both converge on the same core concept of betrothal.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be engaged, to be promised in marriage34.74
- In 2 Corinthians 11:2, Paul writes, “I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed (hērmosámēn) you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ,” describing the church pledged in a marriage-like bond to Christ.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Attic ἁρμόττω: 1 aorist middle ἡρμοσάμην; (ἁρμός, which see); 1. to join, to fit…
1. to join, to fit together; so in Homer of carpenters, fastening together beams and planks to build houses, ships, etc.
2. of marriage: ἁρμόζειν τίνι τήν θυγατέρα (Herodotus 9, 108) to betroth a daughter to anyone; passive ἁρμόζεται γυνή ἀνδρί, the Sept. Prov 19:14; middle ἁρμόσασθαι τήν θυγατέρα τίνος (Herodotus 5, 32; 47; 6, 65) to join to oneself, i. e. to marry, the daughter of anyone; ἁρμόσασθαι τίνι τινα to betroth, to give one in marriage to anyone: 2 Cor 11:2, and often in Philo, cf. Loesner ad loc.; the middle cannot be said to be used actively, but refers to him to whom the care of betrothing has been committed; (cf. Buttmann, 193 (167); per contra Meyer at the passage; Winer's Grammar, 258 (242)).
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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