Greek verb · G3738
ὀρχέομαι
orcheomaior-kheh'-om-ahee
to dance
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: orchéomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3738is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3738
to dance (from the ranklike or regular motion)
The King James renders it: dance.
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
orcheomai is rendered "to dance". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:17‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
Matthew 11:17ὠρχήσασθε,¶¬
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- you did dance2
- danced1
- when having danced1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- ὀρχησαμένης1
- ὠρχήσασθε1
- ὠρχήσασθε,¶¬1
- ὠρχήσατο1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 2nd person plural2V-ADI-2P
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-ADI-3S
- verb · aorist middle form, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1V-ADP-GSF
Matthew
two uses
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
- ὠρχήσασθε,¶¬orchesastheverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you did dance
On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod
- ὠρχήσατοorchesatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: danced
Mark
one use
When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”
- ὀρχησαμένηςorchesamenesverb · aorist middle form, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: when having danced
Luke
one use
They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
- ὠρχήσασθεorchesastheverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you did dance
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.