Greek noun (neuter) · G2782
κήρυγμα
kerygmakay'-roog-mah
preaching
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kḗrygma
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2782is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2782
a proclamation (especially of the gospel; by implication, the gospel itself)
The King James renders it: preaching.
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
kerygma is rendered "preaching". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:41κήρυγμα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- preaching4
- proclamation3
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 7, 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
- κήρυγμα4
- κήρυγμά1
- κηρύγματι1
- κηρύγματος1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular2N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1N-GSN
Matthew
one use
The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
- κήρυγμαkerugmanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: preaching
Luke
one use
The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
- κήρυγμαkerugmanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: preaching
1 Corinthians
three uses
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
- κηρύγματοςkerugmatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: proclamation
My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
- κήρυγμάkerugmanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: preaching
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.
- κήρυγμαkerugmanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: preaching
2 Timothy
one use
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
- κήρυγμαkerugmanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: proclamation
Titus
one use
In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.
- κηρύγματιkerugmatinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: proclamation
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.