Greek verb · G2806
κλάω
klaoklah'-o
to break
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kláō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2806is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2806
to break (specially, of bread)
The King James renders it: break.
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
klao is rendered "to break". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 14:19And 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.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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.
Matthew 14:19κλάσας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's fourteen uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- He broke5
- having broken4
- breaking2
- broke1
- I broke1
- we break1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- ἔκλασεν6
- κλάσας4
- ἔκλασα1
- κλάσαι1
- κλῶμεν1
- κλῶντές1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular6V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular4V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · present active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PAI-1P
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PAP-NPM
Matthew
three uses
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.
- κλάσαςklasasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having broken
Taking the seven loaves and the fish, He gave thanks and broke them. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- ἔκλασενeklasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He broke
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
- ἔκλασενeklasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: broke
Mark
three uses
And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.
- ἔκλασενeklasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He broke
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.
- ἔκλασαeklasaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I broke
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take it; this is My body.”
- ἔκλασενeklasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He broke
Luke
two uses
And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
- ἔκλασενeklasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He broke
While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.
- κλάσαςklasasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having broken
Acts
four uses
With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- κλῶντέςklontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: breaking
On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
- κλάσαιklasaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: breaking
Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. And after speaking until daybreak, he departed.
- κλάσαςklasasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having broken
After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
- κλάσαςklasasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having broken
1 Corinthians
two uses
Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
- κλῶμενklomenverb · present active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we break
and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
- ἔκλασενeklasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He broke
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.