Greek verb · G3528
νικάω
nikaonik-ah'-o
to conquer
28 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nikáō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3528is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3528
to subdue (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: conquer, overcome, prevail, get the victory.
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
nikao is rendered "to conquer". It stands 28 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 11:22But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.
Luke 11:22νικήσῃ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventeen of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- overcoming10
- have overcome2
- overcame2
- you have overcome2
- conquering1
- do be overcome1
- do overcome1
- has overcome1
- having overcome1
- he may conquer1
- he may overcome1
- he will overcome1
and 4 more, 28 uses in all
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 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- νικῶν8
- νενικήκατε3
- νικήσει2
- νικῶντι2
- ἐνίκησα1
- ἐνίκησαν1
- ἐνίκησεν1
- νενίκηκα1
- νικᾷ1
- νίκα1
- νικῆσαι1
- νικήσασα1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular8V-PAP-NSM
- verb · perfect active, indicative · 2nd person plural3V-RAI-2P
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-AAS-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2V-PAP-DSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-AAP-NSF
- verb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-FAI-2S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
Luke
one use
But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.
- νικήσῃnikeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may overcome
John
one use
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
- νενίκηκαnenikekaverb · perfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: have overcome
Romans
three uses
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
- νικήσειςnikeseisverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: will prevail
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- νικῶnikoverb · present passive, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do be overcome
- νίκαnikaverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do overcome
1 John
six uses
I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
- νενικήκατεnenikekateverb · perfect active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you have overcome
I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
- νενικήκατεnenikekateverb · perfect active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you have overcome
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- νενικήκατεnenikekateverb · perfect active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: have overcome
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- νικᾷnikaverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: overcomes
- νικήσασαnikesasaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having overcome
Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
Revelation
seventeen uses
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
- νικῶντιnikontiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
- νικῶντιnikontiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
- ἐνίκησαenikesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: overcame
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
- ἐνίκησενenikesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has overcome
So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
- νικήσῃ.¶nikeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may conquer
When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
- νικήσειnikeseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he will overcome
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
- ἐνίκησανenikesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: overcame
Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
- νικῆσαιnikesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to overcome
And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
- νικῶνταςnikontasverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: conquering
They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
- νικήσειnikeseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will overcome
The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
- νικῶνnikonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: overcoming
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.