Greek verb · G3423
μνηστεύω
mnesteuomnace-tyoo'-o
to woo and win, espouse.; to promise in marriage, betroth
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mnēsteúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3423is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3423
to give a souvenir (engagement present), i.e. betroth
The King James renders it: espouse.
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
mnesteuo is rendered "to woo and win, espouse.; to promise in marriage, betroth". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to woo and win, espouse.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 1:18This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:18μνηστευθείσης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to woo and win, espouse., and to promise in marriage, betroth.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to woo and win, espouse. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 1:18This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to… |
| to promise in marriage, betrothpass., of the woman, to be betrothed | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 1:18This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to… |
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἐμνηστευμένῃ1
- ἐμνηστευμένην1
- μνηστευθείσης1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1V-APP-GSF
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singular1V-RPP-ASF
- verb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1V-RPP-DSF
Matthew
one use
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
- μνηστευθείσηςmnesteutheisesverb · aorist passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: At the pledging
Luke
two uses
to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
- ἐμνηστευμένηνemnesteumenenverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: betrothed
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to him in marriage and was expecting a child.
- ἐμνηστευμένῃemnesteumeneverb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: betrothed
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.