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Greek noun (feminine) · G1124

γραφή

graphegraf-ay'

a drawing, painting

49 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: graphḗ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1124is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 13
    spellings
  • 1
    meaning

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1124

a document, i.e. holy Writ (or its contents or a statement in it)

The King James renders it: scripture.

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

graphe is rendered "a drawing, painting". It stands 49 times in the Greek text, across thirteen books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
  • Its one listed meaning is "a drawing, painting".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Matthew 21:42γραφαῖς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 14 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries one meaning: a drawing, painting.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
a drawing, paintingTagged aslisted under the tableWhereMatthew 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected…

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Scripture29
  • Scriptures19
  • of Scripture1

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.

γράφωgraphoto writeUses189

The words it stands beside

All 49, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 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

  • γραφὴ14
  • γραφὰς7
  • γραφή7
  • γραφαῖς4
  • γραφὴν3
  • γραφῆς3
  • γραφῶν3
  • γραφαὶ2
  • γραφῇ2
  • γραφαί1
  • γραφάς1
  • γραφάς;¶1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular21N-NSF
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural9N-APF
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular4N-ASF
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural4N-DPF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural3N-GPF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural3N-NPF
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF

Matthew

four uses
  • Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

    Matthew 21:42

    • γραφαῖςgraphaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

    Matthew 22:29

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

    Matthew 26:54

    • γραφαὶgraphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

    Matthew 26:56

    • γραφαὶgraphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

Mark

three uses
  • Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

    Mark 12:10

    • γραφὴνgraphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

    Mark 12:24

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. But this has happened that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”

    Mark 14:49

    • γραφαίgraphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

Luke

four uses
  • and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

    Luke 4:21

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

    Luke 24:27

    • γραφαῖςgraphaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

    Luke 24:32

    • γραφάς;¶graphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

    Luke 24:45

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

John

twelve uses
  • After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

    John 2:22

    • γραφῇgrapheanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

    John 5:39

    • γραφάςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

    John 7:38

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

    John 7:42

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

    John 10:35

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

    John 13:18

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

    John 17:12

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.

    John 19:24

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

    John 19:28

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

    John 19:36

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

    John 19:37

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

    John 20:9

    • γραφὴνgraphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture

Acts

seven uses
  • “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

    Acts 1:16

    • γραφὴνgraphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

    Acts 8:32

    • γραφῆςgraphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

    Acts 8:35

    • γραφῆςgraphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

    Acts 17:2

    • γραφῶνgraphonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

    Acts 17:11

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.

    Acts 18:24

    • γραφαῖςgraphaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

    Acts 18:28

    • γραφῶνgraphonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

Romans

six uses
  • the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

    Romans 1:2

    • γραφαῖςgraphaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

    Romans 4:3

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

    Romans 9:17

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

    Romans 10:11

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

    Romans 11:2

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

    Romans 15:4

    • γραφῶνgraphonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

1 Corinthians

two uses
  • For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

    1 Corinthians 15:3

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures
  • that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

    1 Corinthians 15:4

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

Galatians

three uses
  • The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

    Galatians 3:8

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

    Galatians 3:22

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

    Galatians 4:30

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture

1 Timothy

one use
  • For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

    1 Timothy 5:18

    • γραφήgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture

2 Timothy

one use
  • All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

    2 Timothy 3:16

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture

James

three uses
  • If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

    James 2:8

    • γραφήνgraphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

    James 2:23

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture
  • Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

    James 4:5

    • γραφὴgraphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture

1 Peter

one use
  • For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

    1 Peter 2:6

    • γραφῇgrapheanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Scripture

2 Peter

two uses
  • Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.

    2 Peter 1:20

    • γραφῆςgraphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of Scripture
  • He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

    2 Peter 3:16

    • γραφὰςgraphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Scriptures

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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