gameō · marry

What it means

gameō (γαμέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “marry”.

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. For a man and a woman to be joined in marriage.

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

How it is translated

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

• marry ×11
• marries ×8
• married ×7
• marrying ×2
• marriage ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×4
• Luke×6
• 1 Corinthians×9
• 1 Timothy×3

• Matthew 5:32

  But I tell you that everyone who sends away his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who has been sent away commits adultery.

• Matthew 19:9

  And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

• Matthew 19:10

  The disciples say to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

• Matthew 22:25

  Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first married and died, and not having offspring, he left his wife to his brother;

• Matthew 22:30

  For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

• Matthew 24:38

  For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark,

• Mark 6:17

  For Herod himself had sent and seized John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

• Mark 10:11

  And he says to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;

• Mark 10:12

  and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

• Mark 12:25

  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

• Luke 14:20

  And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

• Luke 16:18

  Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

• Luke 17:27

  they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

• Luke 20:34

  And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

• Luke 20:35

  but those who are considered worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage;

• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10

  To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): a wife is not to separate from her husband

• 1 Corinthians 7:28

  But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

• 1 Corinthians 7:33

  but the married man is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

• 1 Corinthians 7:34

  and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin are concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:36

  But if anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  who forbid marriage and require abstaining from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• 1 Timothy 5:11

  But refuse younger widows, for when their desires draw them away from the Messiah, they want to marry,

• 1 Timothy 5:14

  So I want younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage their households, to give the adversary no occasion for reproach;

And 4 more times.