Strong G2753κελεύω
to order
- Transliteration
- keleuō
- Pronunciation
- kel-yoo'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From a primary word κέλλω kellō (to urge on); hail; to incite by word that is order: - bid (at give) command (-ment).
Detailed definition
κελεύω
[in LXX: I Est.9:53, Tob.8:18, al., and frequently in 1-4Mac;]
to urge on, bid by word of mouth, order, command (mostly of one in authority): with accusative and inf. aor., Mat.14:19, 28 18:25 27:64, Luk.18:40, Act.4:15 5:34 8:38 22:30 23:10 25:6, 17; with ellipse of accusative, Mat.8:18 14:9 27:58, Act.12:19 21:33; with accusative and inf. Pres., Act.21:34 22:24 23:3, 35 25:21 27:43; with ellipse of accusative, Act.16:22; ptcp. aor., Act.25:23.†
SYN.: see: ἐντέλλω (AS)
[in LXX: I Est.9:53, Tob.8:18, al., and frequently in 1-4Mac;]
to urge on, bid by word of mouth, order, command (mostly of one in authority): with accusative and inf. aor., Mat.14:19, 28 18:25 27:64, Luk.18:40, Act.4:15 5:34 8:38 22:30 23:10 25:6, 17; with ellipse of accusative, Mat.8:18 14:9 27:58, Act.12:19 21:33; with accusative and inf. Pres., Act.21:34 22:24 23:3, 35 25:21 27:43; with ellipse of accusative, Act.16:22; ptcp. aor., Act.25:23.†
SYN.: see: ἐντέλλω (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2753 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- command23
- bid1
- commandest1
- commandment1
- give1
First verses
- Matthew 8:18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
- Matthew 14:9And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
- Matthew 14:19And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Matthew 14:28And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
- Matthew 15:35And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
- Matthew 18:25But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
- Matthew 27:58He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
- Luke 18:40And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,
- Acts 4:15But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
- Acts 5:34Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
- Acts 8:38And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
- Acts 12:19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.
- Acts 16:22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
- Acts 21:33Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
- Acts 21:34And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
- Acts 22:24The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
- Acts 22:30On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
- Acts 23:3Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
- Acts 23:10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
κελεύω,
Epic dialect imperfect κέλευον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.767)]: future κελεύ-σω, Epic dialect infinitive - σέμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.274:)]aorist ἐκέλευσα, Epic dialect κέλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.4)]: perfect κεκέλευκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.34, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 44)]:—middle, aorist ἐκελευσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 13: more frequently in compounds δια-, ἐπι-, παρα-κελεύομαι (which see))]:—passive, future -ευσθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 68.9)]: aorist ἐκελεύσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.ά, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 738, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.70)]: perfect κεκέλευσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.14, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 11)]: pluperfect ἐκεκέλευστο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 78.4 (ἐκελεύθην variant in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.ά, and κεκέλευμαι “IG” 22.1121.13 (4th c.AD), variant in 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 5.141 are later forms). (A lengthened form of κέλομαι, which see))]:—properly urge, drive on, [ἵππους] ὁ γέρων ἐφέπων μάστιγι κέλευε.. κατὰ ἄστυ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.326)]: hence, exhort, bid,
1 c.accusative person et infinitive, order one to do, σ᾽ ἔγωγε.. κελεύω ἐς πληθὺν ἰέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.30, compare 2.11, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8, 24, etc.)]; ἐκέλευσε τὸν παῖδα περιμεῖναί ἑ κελεῦσαι he bade the lad bid us to wait for him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327b)]; ὁ νόμος τὸν ἐπιβουλεύσαντα κελεύει φονέα εἶναι, i.e. bids that he be held guilty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.5; ὁ τὸν νόμον κελεύων ἄρχειν δοκεῖ κελεύειν ἄρχειν τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὸν νοῦν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287a29; ἐς τὴν Μίλητον ἔπεμπον κελεύοντες σφίσι τὸν Ἀστύοχον βοηθεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.38)]; request, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.16)]; opposed to ἐπιτάττειν, [Refs (“IG” 12.76.33.)]
2 with accusative person et of things, σφῶϊ μὲν οὔ τι κελεύω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.286; τά με θυμὸς.. κελεύει (i.e. εἰπεῖν) 7.68, etc.: with)]infinitive subjoined, τί με ταῦτα κελεύεις.. μάχεσθα; [Refs (20.87.)]
3 with accusative person only, εἰ μὴ θυμός με κελεύοι (i.e. φείδεσθαι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.278; ὥς με κελεύεις (i.e. μυθεῖσθαι) 11.507: in Prose, ἐκέλευσε τοὺς ἕνδεκα ἐπὶ τὸν Θηραμένην)] ordered them [to go] against him, ordered them to seize him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.54; κ. τινὰς ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα [prev. work] 20)]:—passive, receive orders, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1253b34.)]
4 c.accusative of things only, ὃ μὴ κελεύσαι Ζεύς [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus for -σει) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 618; ὁ νόμος τὰ μὲν κελεύων τὰ δ᾽ ἀπαγορεύων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1129b24:)] — passive, τὸ κελευόμενον commands, orders, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16, 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 61, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.3: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 340a.)]
5 with dative person followed by infinitive, urge or order one to do, κηρύκεσσι.. κέλευσε κηρύσσειν.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.50, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.6, etc.)]; ἀλλήλοισι κέλευον ἅπτεσθαι νηῶν.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.151; ἑτάροισι.. ἐκέλευσα ἐμβαλέειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.488: in later Prose, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.17, 1st c.AD: Cebes Philosophus 32.4 codices, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 1.1, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 121.1, etc.)]
6 rarely with dative person et accusative of things, τί δ᾽ ἐστὶν ὃ κελεύεις ἐμο; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 224, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.1.)]
7 with dative person only, ἵπποισι καὶ Αὐτομέδοντι κελεύσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.684; compareinfr. 111.)]
8 absolutely, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ὡς σὺ κελεύεις 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.96, +others; λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 107)]; κελεύων, opposed to αὐτοχειρίῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 260; κελευούσης τῆς Πυθίης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.36; κελεύοντος καὶ δεομένου 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 5.1.)]
9 with infinitive only, σιγᾶν κελεύω I order silence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 865; οὐκ ἂν κελεύσαιμ᾽ εὐσεβεῖν [prev. author] “Ant.” 731)]; recommend, propose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.25, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.21, etc.)]; opposed to οὐκ ἐάω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 2.18.)]
II of inferiors, urge, entreat, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.599, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.17, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116.)]
III of the boatswain, give time to rowers, c.dative, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 396b: _absolutely_, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.535d.)]
III.2 sing a chanty, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 6.24.)]
Epic dialect imperfect κέλευον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.767)]: future κελεύ-σω, Epic dialect infinitive - σέμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.274:)]aorist ἐκέλευσα, Epic dialect κέλ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.4)]: perfect κεκέλευκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.34, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 44)]:—middle, aorist ἐκελευσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 13: more frequently in compounds δια-, ἐπι-, παρα-κελεύομαι (which see))]:—passive, future -ευσθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 68.9)]: aorist ἐκελεύσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.ά, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 738, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.70)]: perfect κεκέλευσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.14, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 11)]: pluperfect ἐκεκέλευστο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 78.4 (ἐκελεύθην variant in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.ά, and κεκέλευμαι “IG” 22.1121.13 (4th c.AD), variant in 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 5.141 are later forms). (A lengthened form of κέλομαι, which see))]:—properly urge, drive on, [ἵππους] ὁ γέρων ἐφέπων μάστιγι κέλευε.. κατὰ ἄστυ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.326)]: hence, exhort, bid,
1 c.accusative person et infinitive, order one to do, σ᾽ ἔγωγε.. κελεύω ἐς πληθὺν ἰέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (17.30, compare 2.11, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8, 24, etc.)]; ἐκέλευσε τὸν παῖδα περιμεῖναί ἑ κελεῦσαι he bade the lad bid us to wait for him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327b)]; ὁ νόμος τὸν ἐπιβουλεύσαντα κελεύει φονέα εἶναι, i.e. bids that he be held guilty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.5; ὁ τὸν νόμον κελεύων ἄρχειν δοκεῖ κελεύειν ἄρχειν τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὸν νοῦν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287a29; ἐς τὴν Μίλητον ἔπεμπον κελεύοντες σφίσι τὸν Ἀστύοχον βοηθεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.38)]; request, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.16)]; opposed to ἐπιτάττειν, [Refs (“IG” 12.76.33.)]
2 with accusative person et of things, σφῶϊ μὲν οὔ τι κελεύω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.286; τά με θυμὸς.. κελεύει (i.e. εἰπεῖν) 7.68, etc.: with)]infinitive subjoined, τί με ταῦτα κελεύεις.. μάχεσθα; [Refs (20.87.)]
3 with accusative person only, εἰ μὴ θυμός με κελεύοι (i.e. φείδεσθαι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.278; ὥς με κελεύεις (i.e. μυθεῖσθαι) 11.507: in Prose, ἐκέλευσε τοὺς ἕνδεκα ἐπὶ τὸν Θηραμένην)] ordered them [to go] against him, ordered them to seize him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.54; κ. τινὰς ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα [prev. work] 20)]:—passive, receive orders, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1253b34.)]
4 c.accusative of things only, ὃ μὴ κελεύσαι Ζεύς [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus for -σει) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 618; ὁ νόμος τὰ μὲν κελεύων τὰ δ᾽ ἀπαγορεύων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1129b24:)] — passive, τὸ κελευόμενον commands, orders, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16, 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 61, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.3: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 340a.)]
5 with dative person followed by infinitive, urge or order one to do, κηρύκεσσι.. κέλευσε κηρύσσειν.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.50, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.6, etc.)]; ἀλλήλοισι κέλευον ἅπτεσθαι νηῶν.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.151; ἑτάροισι.. ἐκέλευσα ἐμβαλέειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.488: in later Prose, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.17, 1st c.AD: Cebes Philosophus 32.4 codices, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 1.1, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 121.1, etc.)]
6 rarely with dative person et accusative of things, τί δ᾽ ἐστὶν ὃ κελεύεις ἐμο; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 224, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.1.)]
7 with dative person only, ἵπποισι καὶ Αὐτομέδοντι κελεύσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.684; compareinfr. 111.)]
8 absolutely, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ὡς σὺ κελεύεις 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.96, +others; λέξω, κελεύεις γάρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 107)]; κελεύων, opposed to αὐτοχειρίῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 260; κελευούσης τῆς Πυθίης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.36; κελεύοντος καὶ δεομένου 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 5.1.)]
9 with infinitive only, σιγᾶν κελεύω I order silence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 865; οὐκ ἂν κελεύσαιμ᾽ εὐσεβεῖν [prev. author] “Ant.” 731)]; recommend, propose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.25, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.21, etc.)]; opposed to οὐκ ἐάω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 2.18.)]
II of inferiors, urge, entreat, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.599, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.17, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116.)]
III of the boatswain, give time to rowers, c.dative, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 396b: _absolutely_, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.535d.)]
III.2 sing a chanty, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 6.24.)]