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Lexicon :: Strong's G1125 - graphō

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γράφω
Transliteration
graphō (Key)
Pronunciation
graf'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A root word
mGNT
192x in 33 unique form(s)
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208x in 37 unique form(s)
LXX
216x in 39 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:742,128

Strong’s Definitions

γράφω gráphō, graf'-o; a primary verb; to "grave", especially to write; figuratively, to describe:—describe, write(-ing, -ten).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 209x

The KJV translates Strong's G1125 in the following manner: write (206x), writing (1x), describe (1x), variations of 'write' (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 209x
The KJV translates Strong's G1125 in the following manner: write (206x), writing (1x), describe (1x), variations of 'write' (1x).
  1. to write, with reference to the form of the letters

    1. to delineate (or form) letters on a tablet, parchment, paper, or other material

  2. to write, with reference to the contents of the writing

    1. to express in written characters

    2. to commit to writing (things not to be forgotten), write down, record

    3. used of those things which stand written in the sacred books (of the OT)

    4. to write to one, i.e. by writing (in a written epistle) to give information, directions

  3. to fill with writing

  4. to draw up in writing, compose

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
γράφω gráphō, graf'-o; a primary verb; to "grave", especially to write; figuratively, to describe:—describe, write(-ing, -ten).
STRONGS G1125:
γράφω; [imperfect ἔγραφον]; future γράψω; 1 aorist ἔγραψα; perfect γέγραφα; passive [present γράφομαι]; perfect γέγραμμαι; [pluperfect 3 person singular ἐγέγραπτο, Revelation 17:8 Lachmann]; 2 aorist ἐγράφην; (properly, to grave, scrape, scratch, engrave; cf. German graben, eingraben; γράψεν δὲ οἱ ὀστέον ἄχρις αἰχμή, Homer, Iliad 17, 599; σήματα γράψας ἐν πίνακι, ibid. 6, 169; hence, to draw letters), to write;
1. with reference to the form of the letters; to delineate (or form) letters on a tablet, parchment, paper, or other material: τῷ δακτύλῳ ἔγραφεν εἰς τὴν γῆν made figures on the ground, John 8:6 Rec.; οὕτω γράφω so I am accustomed to form my letters, 2 Thessalonians 3:17; πηλίκοις γράμμασι ἔγραψα with how large (and so, ill-formed [?]) letters I have written, Galatians 6:11; cf. Winer, Rückert, Hilgenfeld at the passage [for the views of those who regard ἔγρ. as covering the close of the Epistle only, see Bp. Lightfoot and Meyer; cf. Winers Grammar, 278 (261); Buttmann, 198 (171f)].
2. with reference to the contents of the writing;
a. to express in written characters, followed by the words expressed: ἔγραψε λέγων· Ἰωάννης ἐστὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, Luke 1:63; μὴ γράφε· βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων κτλ., John 19:21; γράψον· μακάριοι κτλ., Revelation 14:13. γράφω τι, John 19:22; passive Revelation 1:3; τὶ ἐπί τι, Revelation 2:17; Revelation 19:16; τὶ ἐπί τινα, Revelation 3:12; ἐπί τινος, Revelation 14:1.
b. to commit to writing (things not to be forgotten), write down, record: Revelation 1:19 (γράψον εἶδες); Revelation 10:4; γράφειν εἰς βιβλίον, Revelation 1:11; ἐπὶ τὸ βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, Revelation 17:8; γεγραμμ. ἐν τ. βιβλίῳ [or τῇ βίβλῳ], ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις, Revelation 13:8; Revelation 20:12, 15; Revelation 21:27; Revelation 22:18, 19; τὰ ὀνόματα ὑμῶν ἐγράφη [ἐν- (ἐγ- Tr see N, ν) γέγρ. T Tr WH] ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, i. e. that ye have been enrolled with those for whom eternal blessedness has been prepared, Luke 10:20; γράφειν τί τινι, to record something for someone's use, Luke 1:3.
c. ἐγράφη and γέγραπται (in the Synoptists and Paul), and γεγραμμένον ἐστί (in John), are used of those things which stand written in the sacred books (of the O. T.); absolutely γέγραπται, followed by the quotation from the sacred vol.: Matthew 4:4, 6f, 10; Matthew 21:13; Mark 7:6; Mark 11:17; Mark 14:27; Luke 4:8; Luke 19:46; καθὼς γέγραπται, Acts 15:15, very often in Paul, as Romans 1:17; Romans 2:24; Romans 3:4 [see below]; 1 Corinthians 1:31; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 2 Corinthians 8:15; 2 Corinthians 9:9; καθάπερ γέγρ., Romans 11:8 T Tr WH; [Romans 3:4 T Tr WH]; γέγραπται γάρ, Matthew 26:31; Luke 4:10; Acts 23:5; Romans 12:19; Romans 14:11; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Galatians 3:10, 13 Rec.; Gal 4:22, 27; λόγος γεγραμμένος, 1 Corinthians 15:54; κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον, 2 Corinthians 4:13; γεγραμμένον ἐστί, John 2:17; John 6:31; John 12:14; ἐγράφη δὲ πρὸς νουθεσίαν ἡμῶν, 1 Corinthians 10:11; ἐγράφη δἰ ἡμᾶς for our sake, Romans 4:24; 1 Corinthians 9:10; with the name of the author of the written words or of the books in which they are found: γέγραπται ἐν βίβλῳ ψαλμῶν, Acts 1:20; ἐν βίβλῳ τῶν προφητῶν, Acts 7:42; ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ [R WH δευτέρῳ] ψαλμῷ, Acts 13:33; ἐν Ἠσαΐᾳ, Mark 1:2 [not Rec.], etc. τινά or τί to write of, i. e. in writing to mention or refer to a person or a thing: ὃν ἔγραψε Μωϋσῆς whom Moses had in mind in writing of the Messiah, or whose likeness Moses delineated, John 1:45 (John 1:46); Μωϋσῆς γράφει τὴν δικαιοσύνην τὴν ἐκ νόμου, Moses, writing the words ὅτι ποιήσας αὐτά κτλ., points out the righteousness which is of the law, Romans 10:5. γέγραπται, γράφειν, etc. περί τινος, concerning one: Matthew 26:24; Mark 14:21; John 5:46; Acts 13:29; ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, that it should find fulfilment in him, Mark 9:12f [cf. ἵνα, II. 2b.]; ἐπ’ αὐτῷ, on him i. e. of him (cf. Winer's Grammar, 393 (368) [and ἐπί, Buttmann, 2f. β.]), John 12:16; τὰ γεγραμμένα τῷ υἱῷ τοῦ ἀνθρ. written for him, allotted to him in Scripture, i. e. to be accomplished in his career, Luke 18:31; cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 4; [yet cf. Buttmann, 178 (154)]; Μωϋσῆς ἔγραψεν ὑμῖν ἵνα etc. Moses in the Scripture commanded us that etc. [cf. Buttmann, 237 (204)], Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28.
d. γράφειν τινί to write to one, i. e. by writing (in a written epistle) to give information, directions, etc. to one: Romans 15:15; 2 Corinthians 2:4, 9 [dative implied]; 2 Cor 7:12; Philemon 1:21; 2 Peter 3:15; 1 John 2:12ff; δἰ ὀλίγων, 1 Peter 5:12; διὰ μέλανος καὶ καλάμου, 3 John 1:13; followed by the words written or to be written in the letter: Acts 15:23; Revelation 2:1, 8, 12, 18; Revelation 3:1, 7, 14; γράφειν τινί τι, 1 Corinthians 14:37; 2 Corinthians 1:13; 2 Corinthians 2:3 [L T Tr WH omit the dative]; Galatians 1:20; 1 Timothy 3:14; 1 John 1:4 [R G L]; 1 John 2:1; περί τινος, 1 John 2:26; Acts 25:26; 2 Corinthians 9:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:1; Jude 1:3; διὰ χειρός τινος, to send a letter by one, Acts 15:23 [see χείρ]; γράφειν τινί, followed by an infinitive, by letter to bid one do a thing, Acts 18:27; followed by μή with an infinitive (to forbid, write one not to etc.), 1 Corinthians 5:9, 11.
3. to fill with writing (German beschreiben): βιβλίον γεγραμμένον ἔσωθεν καὶ ὄπισθεν a volume written within and behind, on the back, hence, on both sides, Revelation 5:1 (Ezekiel 2:10); cf. Düsterdieck [Alford, others] at the passage
4. to draw up in writing, compose: βιβλίον, Mark 10:4; John 21:25 [Tdf. omit the verse; see WH's Appendix at the passage]; τίτλον, John 19:19; ἐπιστολήν, Acts 23:25; 2 Peter 3:1; ἐντολήν τινι to write a commandment to one, Mark 10:5; 1 John 2:7; 2 John 1:5. [Compare: ἀπο-, ἐγ-, ἐπι-, κατα-, προγράφω.]

Related entry:
ἐνγράφω, see ἐν, III. 2 and 3.

Related entry:
καταγράφω: imperfect 3 person singular κατέγραφεν; to draw (forms or figures), to delineate: John 8:6 manuscript D etc. which T Tr WH (text) would substitute for R G ἔγραφεν. (Pausan. 1, 28, 2. Differently in other Greek writings.) [Perhaps it may be taken in John under the passage cited in a more general sense: to mark (cf. Pollux 9, 7, 104, etc.).]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ezekiel
2:10
Matthew
4:4; 4:6; 4:10; 21:13; 26:24; 26:31
Mark
1:2; 7:6; 9:12; 10:4; 10:5; 11:17; 12:19; 14:21; 14:27
Luke
1:3; 1:63; 4:8; 4:10; 10:20; 18:31; 19:46; 20:28
John
1:45; 1:46; 2:17; 5:46; 6:31; 8:6; 8:6; 12:14; 12:16; 19:19; 19:21; 19:22; 21:25
Acts
1:20; 7:42; 13:29; 13:33; 15:15; 15:23; 15:23; 18:27; 23:5; 23:25; 25:26
Romans
1:17; 2:24; 3:4; 3:4; 4:24; 10:5; 11:8; 12:19; 14:11; 15:15
1 Corinthians
1:31; 2:9; 3:19; 5:9; 5:11; 9:10; 10:11; 14:37; 15:54
2 Corinthians
1:13; 2:3; 2:4; 2:9; 4:13; 7:12; 8:15; 9:1; 9:9
Galatians
1:20; 3:10; 3:13; 4:22; 4:27; 6:11
1 Thessalonians
4:9; 5:1
2 Thessalonians
3:17
1 Timothy
3:14
Philemon
1:21
1 Peter
5:12
2 Peter
3:1; 3:15
1 John
1:4; 2:1; 2:7; 2:12; 2:26
2 John
1:5
3 John
1:13
Jude
1:3
Revelation
1:3; 1:11; 1:19; 2:1; 2:8; 2:12; 2:17; 2:18; 3:1; 3:7; 3:12; 3:14; 5:1; 10:4; 13:8; 14:1; 14:13; 17:8; 17:8; 19:16; 20:12; 20:15; 21:27; 22:18; 22:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1125 matches the Greek γράφω (graphō),
which occurs 192 times in 181 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 3 / 4 (1Co 7:1–2Jo 1:12)

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:1 -

Now concerning the things about which you wrote G1125, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:9 - For it is written G1125 in the Law of Moses, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING.” Is God merely concerned about oxen?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:10 - Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written G1125, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:15 -

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing G1125 these things so that it will be done so in my case, for it would be better for me to die than have anyone make my boast an empty one.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:7 -

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written G1125, “THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:11 - Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written G1125 for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:21 - In the Law it is written G1125, “BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME,” says the [fn]Lord.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:37 -

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write G1125 to you are the Lord’s commandment.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:45 - So also it is written G1125, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:54 - But when this corruptible puts on the incorruptible, and this mortal puts on immortality, then will come about the word that is written G1125, “DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:13 - For we write G1125 nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:3 - And this is the very thing I wrote G1125 you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:4 - For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote G1125 to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:9 - For to this end also I wrote G1125, so that I might know your proven character, whether you are obedient in all things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:13 -

But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written G1125, “I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:12 - So although I wrote G1125 to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:15 - As it is written G1125, “HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO MUCH, AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:1 -

For it is superfluous for me to write G1125 to you about this ministry to the [fn]saints;

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:9 - as it is written G1125,

“HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE NEEDY,

HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [fn]STANDS FOREVER.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:10 - For this reason I am writing G1125 these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:20 - (Now in what I am writing G1125 to you, [fn]I assure you before God that I am not lying!)
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:10 -

For as many as are of the works of [fn]the Law are under a curse, for it is written G1125, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN G1125 IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO DO THEM.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:13 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written G1125, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A [fn]TREE”—
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:22 - For it is written G1125 that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman and one by the free woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:27 - For it is written G1125,

“REJOICE, BARREN WOMAN WHO DOES NOT GIVE BIRTH;

BREAK FORTH AND SHOUT, YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR;

FOR MORE NUMEROUS ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE ONE

THAN OF THE ONE WHO HAS A HUSBAND.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:11 -

See with what large letters I [fn]am writing G1125 to you with my own hand!

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:1 -

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write G1125 the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:9 -

Now concerning love of the brothers, you have no need for anyone to write G1125 to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:1 -

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need of anything to be written G1125 to you.

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:17 -

The greeting is in my own hand[fn]Paul, which is a distinguishing mark in every letter; this is the way I write G1125.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:14 -

I am writing G1125 these things to you, hoping to come to you soon,

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:19 - I, Paul, am writing G1125 this with my own hand, I will repay it (not to [fn]mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).
Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:21 -

Having confidence in your obedience, I write G1125 to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:7 -

“THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME,

IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN G1125 OF ME,

TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:16 - because it is written G1125, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 5:12 -

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother as I regard him, I have written G1125 to you briefly, exhorting and bearing witness that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:1 -

This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing G1125 to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:15 - and consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote G1125 to you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 1:4 - And these things we are writing G1125, so that our joy may be made complete.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:1 -

My little children, I am writing G1125 these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an [fn]Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:7 -

Beloved, I am not writing G1125 a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:8 - [fn]On the other hand, I am writing G1125 a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:12 -

I am writing G1125 to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake.

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:13 - I am writing G1125 to you, fathers, because you have known Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing G1125 to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written G1125 to you, children, because [fn]you have known the Father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:14 - I have written G1125 to you, fathers, because you have known Him who has been from the beginning. I have written G1125 to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:21 - I have not written G1125 to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and [fn]because no lie is of the truth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:26 -

These things I have written G1125 to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:13 -

These things I have written G1125 to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:5 - Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing G1125 to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:12 -

Though I have many things to write G1125 to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that [fn]your joy may be made complete.


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