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ὄνομα

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greekNew TestamentNoun · neuter230 occurrences19 books214 verses

Definition

ὄνομα, -τος, τό,

[in LXX chiefly for שֵׁם ;]

1. in general, the name by which a person or thing is called: Matthew 10:2, Mark 3:16, Luke 1:63, John 18:10, al.; ἄνθρωπος (etc.), ᾧ (οὗ) ὄ. (τ. ὄ), sc. ἦν or ἐστίν (BL, §30, 3), Mark 14:32, Luke 1:26, 27; with same ellipsis, καὶ τ. ὄ. αὐτοῦ, Luke 1:5, John 1:6, al.; ὀνόματι, before nom. prop., Matthew 27:32, Mark 5:22, Luke 1:5, Acts 5:1, al.; accusative absol. (Bl., §34, 7), τοὔνομα (= τ. ὄνομα), Matthew 27:57; ὄ. μοι (sc. ἐστίν; cf. Hom., Od., ix, 366), Mark 5:9 (cf. Luke 8:30); ἔξειν ὄ., Revelation 9:11; καλεῖν (ἐπιτιθέναι) ὄ. (Bl., §33, 1), Matthew 1:21, Mark 3:16; τ. ὄ. ἐν (τ.) βίβλῳ ζωῆς (cf. Deiss., LAE, 121), Philippians 4:3, Revelation 13:8, cf. Luke 10:20 (ἐν τ. οὐρανοῖς); ὄ. βλασφημίας, Revelation 13:1; the name as opposite to the reality, Revelation 3:1 (cf. Hdt., vii, 138); as a title: Ephesians 1:21, Philippians 2:9, 10 (Lft., in l.).

2. By a usage similar to that with ref. to Heb. שֵׁם (Lft., Notes, 106f.), but also common in Hellenistic (M, Pr., 100; Bl., §39, 4; Deiss, BS, 146f., 196f.; LAE, 123:4, of all that the name implies, of rank, authority, character, etc.: of acting on one's authority or in his behalf, ἐν (εἰς) ὄ., with genitive of person(s) (see reff. supr.), Matthew 10:41; 21:9; 28:19, Mark 11:9, Luke 13:35, John 5:43, Acts 8:16, 1 Corinthians 1:13; of the name Christian, 1 Peter 4:16; esp. of the name of God as expressing the divine attributes: ἁγιάζειν (ἅγιον) τὸ ὄ. (τ. Πατρός, Κυρίου), Matthew 6:9, Luke 1:49; 11:2; ψάλλειν (ὁμολογεῖν) τῷ ὀ., Romans 15:9, Hebrews 13:15; δοξάζειν (φανεροῦν, φοβεῖσθαι) τὸ ὄ., John 12:28; 17:6, 26, Revelation 11:18; 15:4; βλασφημεῖν, Romans 2:24, 1 Timothy 6:1, Revelation 13:6; similarly, of the name of Christ: τ. καλὂν ὄ. (Deiss., LAE, 276); πιστεύειν τῷ ὀ., 1 John 3:23; π. εἰς τ. ὄ. (Bl., §39, 4), John 1:12; 2:23; 3:18; ὀνομάζειν τὸ ὄ., 2 Timothy 2:19; κρατεῖν, Revelation 2:13; οὐκ ἀρνεῖσθαι, Revelation 3:8; ἐν τ. ὀ. (see reff. supr.), Mark 9:38 16:[17], Luke 10:17, John 14:13; 16:23, 24; 20:31, Acts 3:6; 4:12, Ephesians 5:20, 1 Peter 4:14, al.; εἰς τ. ὄ. συνάγεσθαι, Matthew 18:20; ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀ., Matthew 19:29; διὰ τὸ ὄ., Matthew 10:22, Mark 13:13, al.; διὰ τοῦ ὀ., 1 Corinthians 1:10; ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀ., Acts 9:16, Romans 1:5, al.; id. absol., Acts 5:41, 3 John 7; πρὸς τὸ ὄ., Acts 26:9.

3. cause, ground, reason (in cl., usually in bad sense, pretext): Mark 9:41 (Swete, in l.; Dalman, Words, 305f.).

4. In late Greek (Deiss., BS., 196f.), an individual, a person: Acts 1:15, Revelation 3:4; 11:13.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ὄνομα:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

230 total
  1. Acts 3:16ὀνόματος · [the] name; ὄνομα · name
    By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
  2. Acts 4:7ὀνόματι · name
    They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
  3. Acts 4:10ὀνόματι · name
    …then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
  4. Acts 4:12ὄνομά · name
    Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
  5. Acts 4:17ὀνόματι · name
    But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”
  6. Acts 4:18ὀνόματι · name
    Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
  7. Acts 4:30ὀνόματος · name
    …as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
  8. Acts 5:1ὀνόματι · named
    Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
  9. Acts 5:28ὀνόματι · name
    “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
  10. Acts 5:34ὀνόματι · named
    But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.
  11. Acts 5:40ὀνόματι · name
    At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.
  12. Acts 5:41Ὀνόματος · Name
    The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
  13. Acts 8:9ὀνόματι · named
    Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,
  14. Acts 8:12ὀνόματος · name
    But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
  15. Acts 8:16ὄνομα · name
    For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
  16. Acts 9:10ὀνόματι · named
    In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Here I am, Lord,” he answered.
  17. Acts 9:11ὀνόματι · named
    “Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
  18. Acts 9:12ὀνόματι · named
    In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”
  19. Acts 9:14ὄνομά · name
    And now he is here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”
  20. Acts 9:15ὄνομά · name
    “Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
  21. Acts 9:16ὀνόματός · name
    I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
  22. Acts 9:21ὄνομα · name
    All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
  23. Acts 9:27ὀνόματι · name
    Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and described how Saul had seen the Lord, who had spoken to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly in that city in the name of Jesus.
  24. Acts 9:28ὀνόματι · name
    So Saul stayed with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.
  25. Acts 9:33ὀνόματι · named
    There he found a man named Aeneas who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
  26. Acts 9:36ὀνόματι · named
    In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.
  27. Acts 10:1ὀνόματι · named
    At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
  28. Acts 10:43ὀνόματος · name
    All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
  29. Acts 10:48ὀνόματι · name
    So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
  30. Acts 11:28ὀνόματι · named
    One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
  31. Acts 12:13ὀνόματι · named
    He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
  32. Acts 13:6ὄνομα · named
    They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
  33. Acts 13:8ὄνομα · name
    But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
  34. Acts 15:14ὀνόματι · [own]
    Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
  35. Acts 15:17ὄνομά · name
    …so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things
  36. Acts 15:26ὀνόματος · name
    …men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  37. Acts 16:1ὀνόματι · named
    Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
  38. Acts 16:14ὀνόματι · named
    Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
  39. Acts 16:18ὀνόματι · [the] name
    She continued this for many days. Eventually Paul grew so aggravated that he turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” And the spirit left her at that very moment.
  40. Acts 17:34ὀνόματι · named
    But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.
  41. Acts 18:2ὀνόματι · named
    There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
  42. Acts 18:7ὀνόματι
    So Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titus Justus, a worshiper of God.
  43. Acts 18:15ὀνομάτων · names
    But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
  44. Acts 18:24ὀνόματι · named
    Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.
  45. Acts 19:5ὄνομα · name
    On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
  46. Acts 19:13ὄνομα · name
    Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I command you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”
  47. Acts 19:17ὄνομα · name
    This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
  48. Acts 19:24ὀνόματι · named
    It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.
  49. Acts 20:9ὀνόματι · named
    And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.