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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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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 216 times in 206 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Exo 24:4–1Ki 14:29)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - And Moses wrote down all the words of Yahweh. Then he arose early in the morning and built an altar [fn]at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 -

Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and [fn]remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets [fn]with the [fn]law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 -

When He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 -

Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain. And the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand, tablets which were written on both [fn]sides; they were written on one side and the other.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - “But now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 -

Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:27 -

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Write [fn]down these words, for in accordance with these words I have cut a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - So he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And [fn]he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten [fn]Commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:30 -

They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and [fn]wrote upon it with engraved writing as found on a signet, “Holy to Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 -

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall [fn]wash them off into the water of bitterness.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:2 - And Moses wrote down their starting places according to their journeys by the [fn]command of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their starting places.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - “So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, that is, the Ten [fn]Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 -

“These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the dense gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:9 - “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - “And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Yahweh had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - ‘And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - “And He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten [fn]Commandments which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:20 - “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:18 -

“Now it will be when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll [fn]in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 -

“If a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens [fn]that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3 - and if the latter husband [fn]turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - and write on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, [fn]promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:8 - “And you shall write on the [fn]stones all the words of this law very distinctly.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:58 -

“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to [fn]fear this glorious and fearsome name, Yahweh your God,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - “Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring on you until you are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - “Yahweh shall not be willing to pardon him, but rather the anger of Yahweh and His jealousy will [fn]burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will [fn]rest on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - “Then Yahweh will separate him out for [fn]adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - ‘Therefore, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - [fn]when you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [fn]when you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:9 -

So Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 -

“So now, write this song for yourselves and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:22 - So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:24 -

And it happened, when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were complete,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:44 -

Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and [fn]Joshua the son of Nun.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may [fn]be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way successful, and then you will [fn]be prosperous.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:31 - just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:32 - And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which [fn]he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went and passed through the land and wrote a description of it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - “Be very strong, then, to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:26 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:25 -

Then Samuel spoke with the people about the legal judgments of the kingdom and wrote them in the book and placed it before Yahweh. And Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his house.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14 -

Now it happened in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - And he had written in the letter, saying, “[fn]Place Uriah in the front line of the [fn]fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “And you shall keep the responsibility given by Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may be prosperous in all that you do and wherever you turn,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:29 -

Then he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, from within the inner and outer sanctuaries.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - “For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your [fn]servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:41 -

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:29 -

Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?


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