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Strong's #2028 - ἐπονομάζω

Transliteration

eponomázō

Phonetics

ep-on-om-ad'-zo

Root Word (Etymology)

from (G1909) and (G3687)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

5:282,694

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to put a name upon, name
to be named

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2142 ‑ זָכַר (zaw‑kar'); 5344 ‑ נָקַב (naw‑kab'); 7121 ‑ קָרָא (kaw‑raw'); 7121 ‑ קָרָא (kaw‑raw'); 7760 ‑ שִׂים (soom, seem);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Romans 1

NAS (2)

Romans 2

HCS (1)

Romans 1

BSB (1)

Romans 1

ESV (1)

Romans 1

WEB (1)

Romans 1

KJV (1)

called 1

NAS (2)

bear 1

name 1

HCS (1)

call 1

BSB (1)

you call [yourself] 1

ESV (1)

call yourself 1

WEB (1)

bear the name 1

RAH

V-AAI3P 4

V-AAI3S 24

V-AAN 3

V-AAPNSM 1

V-AAS1S 1

V-API3S 1

V-PAI3P 2

ANT

V-PPI-2S 1

BEZ

V-PPI-2S 1

BGB

V-PIM/P-2S 1

BMT

V-PPI-2S 1

BYZ

V-PPI-2S 1

ELZ

V-PPI-2S 1

NA26

V-PMI-2S 1

SBL

V-2PMIS 1

SCV

V-PPI-2S 1

STV

V-PPI-2S 1

TIS

V-PPI-2S 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἐπονομ-άζω,

1. apply a word (accus.) as a name to a thing (dat.), ᾧ γένει κέραμον ἐπωνομάκαμεν to which sort we have given the name pottery, Pl. Ti. 60d; ᾧ τὸ ἔστιν ἐπονομάζεις Id. Tht. 185c; πᾶσι ταὐτὸν ἐ. ὄνομα Id. Plt. 263c (reversely, τίς Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ βίον ἐπονομάζει καθάπερ Πλάτωνι; who dedicates his life to A., calls himself an Alexandrist? Them. Or. 31.354b): — Pass., τῇ ἀρχῇ ὕβρις ἐπωνομάσθη the name insolence was given to this rule, Pl. Phdr. 238a, cf. Cra. 404b.

2. call by a name, ἀπὸ τοῦ θεῖν θεοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐπονομάσαι [φαίνονται] ib. 397d; τὰς Μούσας ἀπὸ τοῦ μῶσθαι τὸ ὄνομα τοῦτο ἐ. called the Muses by this name (viz. Muses), ib. 406a; ἐ. αὐτὰ τῇ ἐκείνων ἐπωνυμίᾳ Id. Phd. 103b; with εἶναι pleon., Id. Prm. 133d: — Pass., to be named, ἀπό τινος after one, Th. 6.2, etc.; also τινος, to be named the temple of.., E. HF 1329, Pl. Lg. 738b (but in 626d the gen. depends on ἄξιος); πατρόθεν ἐ. Id. Ly. 204e; πατρὸς.. δαῖτ' ἐπωνομασμένην, i.e. called after Agamemnon (cf. ἐπώνυμος), S. El. 284; esp. to be surnamed, Th. 2.29; Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ Romans 2:17.

3. generally, name, call so and so, ἀφνειὸν ἐ. τὸ χωρίον Th. 1.13; σοφιστὴν ἐ. σεαυτόν Pl. Prt. 349a, cf. Phd. 113b, al.; παρακαταθήκην ἐ. D. 28.15.

4. pronounce a name, ἐ. τὰ οὐνόματα ἐν τῷ ὕμνῳ Hdt. 4.35, cf. 7.117; ἐπονομάζων τινά uttering his name as he throws the cottabus, Cratin. 273, cf. Clearch.Com. 1.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἐπονομάζω: (present passive ἐπονομάζομαι); from Herodotus down; the Sept. for קָרָא; to put a name upon, name; passive to be named: Romans 2:17; cf. Fritzsche at the passage.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἐπ -ονομάζω ,

[in LXX chiefly for H7121;]

to name, call by a name, surname: pass., Romans 2:17.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

This NT ἅπ. εἰρ. is found in the Median parchment P Saï d Khan 1 A. .11 (B.C. 88) (= JHS xxxv. p. 28) τειμὴν ἀμπέλου τῆς οὔσης ἐν κώμῃ Κωπάνει τὴν ἐπονομαζομένην Δαδβακανράς, and so B. .11.

List of Word Forms

επονομαζη ἐπονομάζῃ επονομάζουσι επονομάζουσιν επονομάσαι επονομάσας επονομάσω επωνόμασαν επωνόμασε επωνόμασεν επωνομάσθη eponomaze eponomazē eponomázei eponomázēi