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Strong G1062γάμος

wedding

Transliteration
gamos
Pronunciation
gam'-os
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Of uncertain affinity; nuptials: - marriage wedding.

Detailed definition

γάμος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for מִשְׁתֶּה;]

1. a wedding, esp. a wedding-feast: Mat.22:8, 10 11, 12, Jhn.2:1-3, Rev.19:7, 9; pl. (Field, Notes, 16), Mat.22:2-4, 9 25:10, Luk.12:36 14:8.

2. marriage: Heb.13:4 (Cremer, 666).
† (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G1062 appears in 16 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • marriage9
  • wedding7

First verses

  1. Matthew 22:2
    The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
  2. Matthew 22:3
    And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
  3. Matthew 22:4
    Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
  4. Matthew 22:8
    Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
  5. Matthew 22:9
    Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
  6. Matthew 22:10
    So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
  7. Matthew 22:11
    And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
  8. Matthew 22:12
    And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
  9. Matthew 25:10
    And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
  10. Luke 12:36
    And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
  11. Luke 14:8
    When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
  12. John 2:1
    And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
  13. John 2:2
    And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
  14. Hebrews 13:4
    Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
  15. Revelation 19:7
    Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
  16. Revelation 19:9
    And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
γάμος [ᾰ], ὁ,
wedding, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.4.29, +others; γάμοι εἰλαπίναι τε 18.491)]; γάμον τεύχειν furnish forth a wedding, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.277; γ. δαινύναι 4.3)]; ἀρτύειν[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 770; γάμον ποιεῖν 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.86, “Test.Epict.” 2.19: _plural_, γάμους διττοὺς ἑστιᾶν 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.9)]; of a single wedding, οἰκοσίτους τοὺς γ. ποιεῖσθαι [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 450; γάμους ποιεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.21, NT.Matt.22.2; ἐπιτελεῖν γ. τῆς θυγατρός 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 549, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.84; οἱ κεκλημένοι εἰς τοὺς γ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 17.2; ἐν τοῖς γ. ἄκλητος εἰσδεδυκέναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Apollodorus Carystius Comicus 24.)]
II marriage, wedlock, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.382, etc.; ἄγειν [γυναῖκα] ἐπὶ γάμῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.8; ἀγαγέσθαι τινὰ πρὸς γάμον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Ma.” 24)]; τὸν Οἰνέως γ. the marriage granted by O., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 792; γ. θεῶν τινος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 979, compare “IT” 25; εἰς γ. τινὸς ἐλθεῖν [prev. author] “IA” 1044 (Lyric poetry); more frequently in _plural_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 558 (Lyric poetry), 739 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 1156 (Lyric poetry), etc.; compare γαμέω 1: also τοῖς μεθημερινοῖς γάμοις)], i.e. prostitution, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.129)]; Πανὸς ἀναβοᾷ γάμους, i.e. rape, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 190 (Lyric poetry))]; of unlawful wedlock, as of Paris and Helen, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tr.” 932; γάμοι ἄρρενες 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.22; γ. ἀνδρεῖοι 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “Historia Arcana” 16.23:— 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 103, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.4.19)], do not establish the sense of a wife; for [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 357, see at {γαμέω} I.1.)]
III ἱερὸς γ. ritual marriage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 320, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, “Etymologicum Magnum” 468.56; as a nickname, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 34.2)]; name of play by Ale.Comedy texts
IV [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)] name for three, [Refs (Theol.Ar. 16)]; for five, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.388c; for six, Theo Sm.p.102H., “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 33.)]
V Γάμος personified, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 13, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 5.27.)]
VI name of month at Epidaurus, [Refs (“IG” 4.1485,1492)]. (Perh. akin to Sanskrit jāmís 'brother or sister', Latin geminus.)