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To give

δίδωμιStrong’s G1325

didōmi

Appears in 378 verses of the New Testament

In short

Didōmi is the Greek word usually translated “give”, “do give” and “gave”. It appears in 378 verses of the New Testament.

“In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:”
2 Thessalonians 1:8 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “give”, “do give” and “gave”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to give 35
  • do give 31
  • gave 25
  • he gave 23
  • has given 22
  • will give 18
  • was given 18
  • i will give 16

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • John 63
  • Matthew 54
  • Luke 53
  • Revelation 50
  • Mark 36
  • Acts 34

22 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 378 verses, by book
Colossians 1
1:25
1 Thessalonians 2
4:24:8
2 Thessalonians 4
1:82:163:93:16
1 Timothy 3
2:64:145:14
Titus 1
2:14
1 Peter 2
1:215:5
2 Peter 1
3:15
Greek dictionary

δίδωμι didōmi · to give

δίδωμι, [in LXX chiefly for נָתַן (53 words in all) ;] to give—in various senses, accusative to context—bestow, grant, supply, deliver, commit, yield: absol., Act.20:35; with accusative of thing(s) and dative of person(s), Mat.4:9 5:31, Jhn.1:12, al. mult.; with dative of person(s), before ἐκ, Mat.25:8; id. with genitive part.. Rev.2:17; with accusative of person(s), Jhn.3:16, Rev.20:13, al.; δεξιάς, Gal.2:9; φίλημα, Luk.7:45; γνῶσιν, Luk.1:77; κρίσιν, Jhn.5:22; of seed yielding fruit, Mrk.4:7, 8; ἐργασίαν (Deiss., LAE, 117f.), Luk.12:58; with inf. fin., Mat.27:34, Mrk.5:43, Luk.8:55, Jhn.6: …

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “give” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GIVE, verb transitive

preterit tense gave; participle passive given. [Heb. to give The sense of give is generally to pass, or to transfer, that is, to send or throw.]

  1. To bestow; to confer; to pass or transfer the title or property of a thing to another person without an equivalent or compensation.
  2. To transmit from himself to another by hand, speech or writing; to deliver.“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” Genesis 3:12
  3. To import; to bestow.“GIVE us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out” Matthew 25:8
  4. To communicate; as, to give an opinion; to give counsel or advice; to give notice.
All definitions and other forms of “give”
  1. To pass or deliver the property of a thing to another for an equivalent; to pay.“What shall a man give in exchange for this soul?” Matthew 16:26
  2. To yield; to lend; in the phrase to give ear, which signifies to listen; to hear.
  3. To quit; in the phrase to give place, which signifies to
  4. To confer; to grant.“What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?” Genesis 15:2
  5. To expose; to yield to the power of.
  6. To grant; to allow; to permit.
  7. To afford; to supply; to furnish.“Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings” Exodus 10:25
  8. To empower; to license; to commission.
  9. To pay or render; as, to give praise, applause or approbation.
  10. To render; to pronounce; as, to give sentence or judgment; to give the word of command.
  11. To utter; to vent; as, to give a shout.
  12. To produce; to show; to exhibit as a product or result; as, the number of men divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
  13. To cause to exist; to excite in another; as, to give offense or umbrage; to give pleasure.
  14. To send forth; to emit; as, a stone gives sparks with steel.
  15. To addict; to apply; to devote one's self, followed by the reciprocal pronoun.“GIVE thyself wholly to them” 1 Timothy 4:15
  16. To resign; to yield up; often followed by up.
  17. To pledge; as, I give my word that the debt shall be paid.
  18. To present for taking or acceptance; as, I give you my hand.
  19. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  20. To addict; to attach to; to abandon.
  21. To despair of recovery; to believe to be lost, or past recovery.
  22. To abandon.
  23. To issue; to send forth; to publish.
  24. To show; to exhibit in false appearance.
  25. To send out; to emit; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
  26. To surrender; as, to give up a fortress to an enemy.
  27. To relinquish, to cede.
  28. To abandon; as, to give up all hope.
  29. To deliver.“And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king” 2 Samuel 24:9
  30. To resign or devote.
  31. To addict; to abandon.
  32. To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall.
  33. To recede; to make room for.
  34. In seamen's language, give way is an order to a boat's crew to row after ceasing, or to increase their exertions.

GIVE, verb intransitive

giv. To yield to pressure. The earth gives under the feet.

  1. To begin to melt; to thaw; to grow soft, so as to yield to pressure.
  2. To move; to recede.
  3. To cease from exertion; to yield; applied to persons.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.