Greek verb · G3687
ὀνομάζω
onomazoon-om-ad'-zo
to name, mention, or address by name; to name, call, give a name to
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: onomázō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3687is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3687
to name, i.e. assign an appellation; by extension, to utter, mention, profess
The King James renders it: call, name.
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
onomazo is rendered "to name, mention, or address by name; to name, call, give a name to". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ephesians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to name, mention, or address by name".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 3:14He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him, to be sent out to preach,
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him, to be sent out to preach,
Mark 3:14ὠνόμασεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in Ephesians.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to name, mention, or address by name, and to name, call, give a name to.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to name, mention, or address by nameAct.19:13; pass. | Tagged as
| WhereNumbers 16:26And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men… |
| to name, call, give a name toMrk.3:14 (T | Tagged as
| WhereMark 3:14He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὄνομα | onoma | name | Uses227 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- ὠνόμασεν3
- ὀνομάζειν1
- ὀνομαζέσθω1
- ὀνομάζεται1
- ὀνομαζόμενος1
- ὀνομαζομένου1
- ὀνομάζων1
- ὠνομάσθη1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PPI-3S
- verb · present passive, command · 3rd person singular1V-PPM-3S
- verb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1V-PPP-GSN
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PPP-NSM
Mark
one use
He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him, to be sent out to preach,
- ὠνόμασενonomasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He called
Luke
two uses
When daylight came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also designated as apostles:
- ὠνόμασενonomasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He named
Simon, whom He named Peter, and his brother Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;
- ὠνόμασενonomasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He named
Acts
one use
Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I bind you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”
- ὀνομάζεινonomazeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to invoke
Romans
one use
In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
- ὠνομάσθηonomastheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was named
1 Corinthians
one use
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
- ὀνομαζόμενοςonomazomenosverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: being designated
Ephesians
three uses
far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
- ὀνομαζομένουonomazomenouverb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: being named
from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
- ὀνομάζεταιonomazetaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is named
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- ὀνομαζέσθωonomazesthoverb · present passive, command · 3rd person singulartagged: should be named
2 Timothy
one use
Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
- ὀνομάζωνonomazonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: is naming
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.