Greek verb · G3729
ὁρμάω
hormaohor-mah'-o
causal, to set in motion, urge on.; Intrans.
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hormáō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3729is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3729
to start, spur or urge on, i.e. (reflexively) to dash or plunge
The King James renders it: run (violently), rush.
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
hormao is rendered "causal, to set in motion, urge on.; Intrans.". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "causal, to set in motion, urge on.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:32“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.
Matthew 8:32ὥρμησεν
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: causal, to set in motion, urge on., and Intrans..
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| causal, to set in motion, urge on. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 8:32“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs… |
| Intrans.to hasten on, rush | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 8:32“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs… |
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 5, 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
- ὥρμησεν3
- ὥρμησαν1
- ὥρμησάν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-AAI-3P
Matthew
one use
“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.
- ὥρμησενhormesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rushed
Mark
one use
He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.
- ὥρμησενhormesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rushed
Luke
one use
Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
- ὥρμησενhormesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rushed
Acts
two uses
At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.
- ὥρμησανhormesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: rushed
Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.
- ὥρμησάνhormesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they rushed
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.