gamos · wedding

What it means

gamos (γάμος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wedding”.

Wedding feast.

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. A wedding feast, with a banquet and guests.
2. The union of husband and wife.

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

How it is translated

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

• wedding feast ×9
• wedding ×6
• marriage ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Luke×2
• John×2
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 22:2

  “The kingdom of heaven has become like a man, a king, who made a wedding feast for his son.

• Matthew 22:3

  And he sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were not willing to come.

• Matthew 22:4

  Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner, my bulls and the fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

• Matthew 22:8

  Then he says to his slaves, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

• Matthew 22:9

  So go to the places where the roads go out of the city, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding feast.’

• Matthew 22:10

  And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was filled with guests.

• Matthew 22:11

  But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man not wearing a wedding garment.

• Matthew 22:12

  And he says to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without having a wedding garment?’ But he was speechless.

• Matthew 25:10

  And while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

• Luke 12:36

  and you be like people waiting for their master, to see when he will return from the wedding feast, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open to him.

• Luke 14:8

  “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline in the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you has been invited by him,

• John 2:1

  And on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

• John 2:2

  And Jesus too was invited to the wedding, and his disciples.

• Hebrews 13:4

  Let marriage be honored among all, and the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

• Revelation 19:7

  Let us rejoice and be glad and give him the glory, because the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

• Revelation 19:9

  And he says to me, “Write: Happy are those who have been invited to the supper of the wedding of the Lamb.” And he says to me, “These are the true words of God.”