anaginōskō · read

What it means

anaginōskō (ἀναγινώσκω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “read”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To run one's eyes over writing and understand it, often aloud before others.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• read ×25
• he was reading ×2
• let the reader ×2
• reading ×2
• one who reads ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×4
• Luke×3
• John×1
• Acts×8
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×3
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 12:3

  But he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him,

• Matthew 12:5

  Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are innocent?

• Matthew 19:4

  But he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

• Matthew 21:16

  and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus says to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

• Matthew 21:42

  Jesus says to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

• Matthew 22:31

  But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

• Matthew 24:15

  So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of through Daniel the prophet standing in a holy place (let the reader understand),

• Mark 2:25

  And he says to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry, he and those with him,

• Mark 12:10

  Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner;

• Mark 12:26

  But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?

• Mark 13:14

  But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

• Luke 4:16

  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and according to his custom he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

• Luke 6:3

  And answering them, Jesus said, “Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

• Luke 10:26

  And he said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

• John 19:20

  So many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek.

• Acts 8:28

  and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

• Acts 8:30

  And Philip, running up, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you really understand what you are reading?”

• Acts 8:32

  Now the passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before the one who shears it, so he does not open his mouth.

• Acts 13:27

  For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing him or the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

• Acts 15:21

  For Moses, from ancient generations, has in every city those who proclaim him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

• Acts 15:31

  And when they read it, they rejoiced at the comfort.

• Acts 23:34

  And when he had read it and asked from what province he was, and learned that he was from Cilicia,

• 2 Corinthians 1:13

  For we are not writing to you anything else than what you read or even understand; and I hope that you will understand until the end,

• 2 Corinthians 3:2

  You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all people,

• 2 Corinthians 3:15

  But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

• Ephesians 3:4

  by which, when you read, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of the Messiah,

• Colossians 4:16

  And when this letter has been read among you, see that it is read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:27

  I solemnly charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers.

• Revelation 1:3

  Happy is the one who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

And 3 more times.