Greek verb · G2578
κάμπτω
kamptokamp'-to
to bend/bow
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kámptō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2578is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2578
to bend
The King James renders it: bow.
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
kampto is rendered "to bend/bow". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 11:4And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
Romans 11:4ἔκαμψαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bowed1
- I bow1
- may bow1
- will bow1
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- ἔκαμψαν1
- κάμπτω1
- κάμψει1
- κάμψῃ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-AAS-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FAI-3S
- verb · present active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PAI-1S
Romans
two uses
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- ἔκαμψανekampsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: bowed
It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
- κάμψειkampseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will bow
Ephesians
one use
... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
- κάμπτωkamptoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I bow
Philippians
one use
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
- κάμψῃkampseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may bow
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.