Greek verb · G805
ἀσφαλίζω
asphalizoas-fal-id'-zo
to secure
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: asphalízō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G805is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G805
to render secure
The King James renders it: make fast (sure).
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
asphalizo is rendered "to secure". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 27:64So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
Matthew 27:64ἀσφαλισθῆναι
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
- do make secure1
- fastened1
- they made secure1
- to be secured1
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
- ἀσφαλίσασθε1
- ἀσφαλισθῆναι1
- ἠσφαλίσαντο1
- ἠσφαλίσατο1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-ADI-3P
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-ADI-3S
- verb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person plural1V-ADM-2P
- verb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-APN
Matthew
three uses
So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
- ἀσφαλισθῆναιasphalisthenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be secured
“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”
- ἀσφαλίσασθεasphalisastheverb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do make secure
So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.
- ἠσφαλίσαντοesphalisantoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they made secure
Acts
one use
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
- ἠσφαλίσατοesphalisatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: fastened
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.