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Strong's #1062 - γάμος
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- a wedding or marriage festival, a wedding banquet, a wedding feast
- marriage, matrimony
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γάμος [ ᾰ], ὁ,
I wedding, Il. 5.4.29, al.; γάμοι εἰλαπίναι τε 18.491; γάμον τεύχειν furnish forth a wedding, Od. 1.277; γ. δαινύναι 4.3; ἀρτύειν ib. 770; γάμον ποιεῖν Herod. 7.86, Test.Epict. 2.19: pl., γάμους διττοὺς ἑστιᾶν Isaiah 8:9; of a single wedding, οἰκοσίτους τοὺς γ. ποιεῖσθαι Men. 450; γάμους ποιεῖν D. 30.21,.Matthew 22:2; ἐπιτελεῖν γ. τῆς θυγατρός Arist. Fr. 549, cf. D.S. 13.84; οἱ κεκλημένοι εἰς τοὺς γ. Diph. 17.2; ἐν τοῖς γ. ἄκλητος εἰσδεδυκέναι Apollod.Car. 24.
II marriage, wedlock, Il. 13.382, etc.; ἄγειν [γυναῖκα] ἐπὶ γάμῳ X. An. 2.4.8; ἀγαγέσθαι τινὰ πρὸς γάμον Plu. Cat.Ma. 24; τὸν Οἰνέως γ. the marriage granted by O., S. Tr. 792; γ. θεῶν τινος E. Tr. 979, cf. IT 25; εἰς γ. τινὸς ἐλθεῖν Id. IA 1044 (lyr.); more freq. in pl., A. Pr. 558 (lyr.), 739 (lyr.), Ag. 1156 (lyr.), etc.; cf. γαμέω 1: also τοῖς μεθημερινοῖς γάμοις, i.e. prostitution, D. 18.129; Πανὸς ἀναβοᾷ γάμους, i.e. rape, E. Hel. 190 (lyr.); of unlawful wedlock, as of Paris and Helen, Id. Tr. 932; γάμοι ἄρρενες Luc. VH 1.22; γ. ἀνδρεῖοι Procop. Arc. 16.23: — E. Andr. 103, X. Cyr. 8.4.19, do not establish the sense of a wife; for E. Tr. 357, v. γαμέω 1.1.
III ἱερὸς γ. ritual marriage, Men. 320, Hsch., EM 468.56; as a nickname, Anaxandr. 34.2; name of play by Ale.Com. Pythag. name for three, Theol.Ar. 16; for five, Plu. 2.388c; for six, Theo Sm.p.102H., Theol.Ar. 33. Γάμος personified, Philox. 13, Lib. Or. 5.27. name of month at Epidaurus, IG 4.1485,1492. (Perh. akin to Skt. jâmís 'brother or sister', Lat. geminus.)
γάμος, γάμου, ὁ (probably from the root, gam, to bind, unite; Curtius, p. 546f), as in Greek writings from Homer down;
1. a wedding or marriage-festival: John 2:1; Revelation 19:7 (under the figure of a marriage here is represented the intimate and everlasting union of Christ, at his return from heaven, with his church); τό δεῖπνον τοῦ γάμου, Revelation 19:9 (a symbol of the future blessings of the Messiah's kingdom); especially a wedding-banquet, a marriage-feast: Matthew 22:8, 10 (here T WH Tr marginal reading νυμφών), Matthew 22:11, 12; plural (referring apparently to the several acts of feasting), Matthew 22:2ff,
2. marriage, matrimony: Hebrews 13:4.
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γάμος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX for H4960;]
1. a wedding, esp. a wedding-feast: Matthew 22:8-12 John 2:1-3, Revelation 19:7-9; pl. (Field, Notes, 16), Matthew 22:2-4; Matthew 22:9; Matthew 25:10, Luke 12:36; Luke 14:8.
2. marriage: Hebrews 13:4 (Cremer, 666).†
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P Tebt I. 104, a marriage contract of B.C. 92, is docketed on the verso—ὁμο (λογία ) γάμου . For συγγραφὴ γάμου , see P Oxy IV. 713.12 (A.D. 97) πεποίηνται πρὸς ἀλλήλους τοῦ γάμου συγγραφήν , and cf. P Amh II. 78.10 (A.D. 184) τῇ συνγενίδι μου . . . πρὸς γάμον συνελθ [ώ ]ν , ";being married to my kinswoman"; (Edd.) The word is very common in connexion with the wedding festivities, e. g. P Oxy I. 111.2 (iii/A.D.) ἐρωτᾷ σε Ἡραὶς δειπνῆσαι εἰς γάμους τέκνων αὐτῆς , ib. VI. 927.2 (iii/A.D.) καλῖ σαι Ἔρως εἰς γάμους , P Flor III. 332.22 (ii/A.D.) τοῖς γάμοις σου , ";on the occasion of your marriage."; Cf. the use of the singular in Genesis 29:22, 1 Maccabees 10:58, and Matthew 22:8 compared with .2, where Field (Notes, p. 16) finds no difference between sing. and plur. For the phrase γάμους ποιεῖν (Matthew 22:2) cf. Michel 1001 ii. 19 (the Will of Epicteta, in the Doric of Thera—c. B.C. 200) μηδὲ χρῆσαι τὸ μουσεῖον μηθενί , εἴ κα μή τις τῶν ἐξ Ἐπιτελείας γάμον ποιῇ .
On the distinction between Egyptian, Greek, and Greek-Egyptian marriages in Egypt, and on the γάμος ἄγραφος as a provisional union in contrast to the fully constituted γάμος ἔγγραφος , see Hohlwein, L’Égypte Romaine, p. 138 ff. Cf. also Archiv iii. pp. 70 f., 507; iv. pp. 264 f., 474 f.
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