Greek verb · G4683
σπαργανόω
sparganoospar-gan-o'-o
to wrap
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sparganóō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4683is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4683
to swathe (an infant after the Oriental custom)
The King James renders it: wrap in swaddling clothes.
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
sparganoo is rendered "to wrap". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:7And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7ἐσπαργάνωσεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- swaddled1
- wrapped in swaddling cloths1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| σπαράσσω | sparasso | to convulse | Uses3 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- ἐσπαργανωμένον1
- ἐσπαργάνωσεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singular1V-RPP-ASN
Luke
two uses
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
- ἐσπαργάνωσενesparganosenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: wrapped in swaddling cloths
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- ἐσπαργανωμένονesparganomenonverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: swaddled
Where it leads
On this page
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.