Greek verb · G2753
κελεύω
keleuokel-yoo'-o
to order
25 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: keleúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2753is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2753
"hail"; to incite by word, i.e. order
The King James renders it: bid, (at, give) command(-ment).
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
keleuo is rendered "to order". It stands 25 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:18When Jesus saw a large crowd around Him, He gave orders to cross to the other side of the sea.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
When Jesus saw a large crowd around Him, He gave orders to cross to the other side of the sea.
Matthew 8:18ἐκέλευσεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he commanded10
- having commanded3
- commanded2
- do command2
- I commanded2
- commanded it1
- he ordered1
- Ordered1
- were commanding1
- when was commanding1
- you command1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| κέλευμα | keleuma | command | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- ἐκέλευσεν14
- ἐκέλευσα2
- κελεύσας2
- ἐκέλευον1
- ἐκέλευσέν1
- κελεύεις1
- Κελεύσαντες1
- κελεύσαντος1
- κέλευσον1
- κέλευσόν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular15V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular2V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular2V-AAM-2S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1V-AAP-GSM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PAI-2S
Matthew
seven uses
When Jesus saw a large crowd around Him, He gave orders to cross to the other side of the sea.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He commanded
The king was grieved, but because of his oaths and his guests, he ordered that her wish be granted
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- κελεύσαςkeleusasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having commanded
“Lord, if it is You,” Peter replied, “command me to come to You on the water.”
- κέλευσόνkeleusonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do command
Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: commanded it
So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
- κέλευσονkeleusonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do command
Luke
one use
Jesus stopped and directed that the man be brought to Him. When he had been brought near, Jesus asked him,
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: commanded
Acts
seventeen uses
So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.
- Κελεύσαντεςkeleusantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Having commanded
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered that they be stripped and beaten with rods.
- ἐκέλευονekeleuonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were commanding
The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, and some another. And since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he ordered
the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Ordered
The next day the commander, wanting to learn the real reason Paul was accused by the Jews, released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: commanded
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”
- κελεύειςkeleueisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you command
The dispute grew so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul to pieces. He ordered the soldiers to go down and remove him by force and bring him into the barracks.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
- κελεύσαςkeleusasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having commanded
After spending no more than eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered that Paul be brought in.
- ἐκέλευσενekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
So when they came here with me, I did not delay. The next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered that the man be brought in.
- ἐκέλευσαekeleusaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I commanded
But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
- ἐκέλευσαekeleusaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I commanded
The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium, along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that Paul be brought in.
- κελεύσαντοςkeleusantosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: when was commanding
But the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life, thwarted their plan. He commanded those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.
- ἐκέλευσένekeleusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
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.