graphē · Scripture

What it means

graphē (γραφή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Scripture”.

The sacred text; "the Scriptures", the Old Testament.

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.

How it is translated

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

• Scripture ×30
• Scriptures ×19

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×3
• Luke×4
• John×12
• Acts×7
• Romans×6
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×3
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• James×3
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×2

• 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 22:29

  But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

• Matthew 26:54

  How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen this way?”

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

• 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 12:24

  Jesus said to them, “Is it not for this reason that you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God?

• Mark 14:49

  Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me; but this has happened so that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.”

• Luke 4:21

  And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

• Luke 24:27

  And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.

• Luke 24:32

  And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us while he was speaking to us on the road, while he was opening to us the Scriptures?”

• Luke 24:45

  Then he opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

• John 2:22

  So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

• John 5:39

  You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify about me;

• John 7:38

  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from within him.’”

• John 7:42

  Has not the Scripture said that the Messiah comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

• John 10:35

  If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

• John 13:18

  I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But it is so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’

• John 17:12

  When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

• John 19:24

  So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots for it to see whose it will be,” so that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says, “They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things.

• John 19:28

  After this, Jesus, knowing that all was already finished, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, says, “I am thirsty.”

• John 19:36

  For these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

• John 19:37

  And again another Scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they pierced.”

• John 20:9

  for they did not yet understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

• Acts 1:16

  “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus,

• 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 8:35

  Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he announced the good news of Jesus to him.

• Acts 17:2

  And according to Paul’s custom, he went in to them, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

• Acts 17:11

  Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

• Acts 18:24

  Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being powerful in the Scriptures.

• Acts 18:28

  for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, showing through the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.

• Romans 1:2

  which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

• Romans 4:3

  For what does the Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.

• Romans 9:17

  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose I raised you up, so that I may show in you my power, and so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

• Romans 10:11

  For the Scripture says: Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.

• Romans 11:2

  God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

• Romans 15:4

  For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and through the comfort of the Scriptures we might have hope.

• 1 Corinthians 15:3

  For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that the Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

• 1 Corinthians 15:4

  and that he was buried, and that he has been raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

• Galatians 3:8

  And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would declare the nations righteous by faith, proclaimed the good news beforehand to Abraham: In you all the nations will be blessed.

• Galatians 3:22

  But the Scripture has confined all things under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be given to those who believe.

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