Greek verb · G1120
γονυπετέω
gonypeteogon-oo-pet-eh'-o
to fall on the knees; to fall down before
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gonypetéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1120is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1120
to fall on the knee
The King James renders it: bow the knee, kneel down.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gonypeteo is rendered "to fall on the knees; to fall down before". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to fall on the knees".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 17:14When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him.
Matthew 17:14γονυπετῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to fall on the knees, and to fall down before.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to fall on the kneesbefore ἔμπροσθεν, Mat.27:29. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:29And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head… |
| to fall down before | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 17:14When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γόνυ | gony | a knee | Uses12 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- γονυπετῶν2
- γονυπετήσαντες1
- γονυπετήσας1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-PAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
Matthew
two uses
When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him.
- γονυπετῶνgonupetonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: kneeling down
And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- γονυπετήσαντεςgonupetesantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having bowed the knees
Mark
two uses
Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
- γονυπετῶνgonupetonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: kneeling down
As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- γονυπετήσαςgonupetesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: he having knelt down to
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.