Word study · lex.G782
ἀσπάζομαι aspazomai
greet · welcome · salute
Team definition
A deponent verb for welcoming, greeting, or saluting a person. It is the ordinary verb for conveying greetings, including at the close of a letter, and it can be joined with a kiss. In Rom 16:22 the person who wrote the letter uses it in the first person. Greeting a church in person, as at Acts 18:22, belongs to the general welcome sense, not to the letter-closing use.
NT occurrences (SBLGNT, via TAGNT) · 48
Matt 5:47Matt 10:12Mark 9:15Mark 15:18Luke 1:40Luke 10:4Acts 18:22Acts 20:1Acts 21:6Acts 21:7Acts 21:19Acts 25:13Rom 16:3Rom 16:5Rom 16:6Rom 16:7Rom 16:8Rom 16:9Rom 16:10Rom 16:11Rom 16:12Rom 16:13Rom 16:14Rom 16:15Rom 16:16Rom 16:21Rom 16:22Rom 16:231 Cor 16:191 Cor 16:202 Cor 13:12Phil 4:21Phil 4:22Col 4:10Col 4:12Col 4:14Col 4:151 Thess 5:262 Tim 4:192 Tim 4:21Titus 3:15Phlm 1:23Heb 11:13Heb 13:241 Pet 5:131 Pet 5:142 John 1:133 John 1:15
Senses
1. welcome or greet a person Matt 5:47, Mark 9:15, Acts 21:7
2. greet with a kiss Rom 16:16, 1 Cor 16:20, 1 Pet 5:14
3. send a greeting in a letter Rom 16:22
See also
Abbott-Smith public domain s.v. ἀσπάζομαι (G782)
Dodson CC0 1.0 G782
Occurrences: STEP Bible TAGNT (CC BY 4.0) keyed to SBLGNT words.
Related notes
Greetings, Junia, and ἐπίσημοι (16:3–16) Rom 16:3; Rom 16:4; Rom 16:5; Rom 16:6; Rom 16:7; Rom 16:8; Rom 16:9; Rom 16:10; Rom 16:11; Rom 16:12; Rom 16:13; Rom 16:14; Rom 16:15; Rom 16:16
Amanuensis, companions, and the doxology (16:21–27) Rom 16:21; Rom 16:22; Rom 16:23; Rom 16:24; Rom 16:25; Rom 16:26; Rom 16:27