TRV
ἀσπάζομαι
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 57 occurrences, inflected in 12 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it. These are this word’s own inflections, not words built from it — for those, see Related Words.
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ἀσπάσασθε
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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Ἀσπάζεται
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἀσπάζονται
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἀσπασάμενοι
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ἀσπασάμενος
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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Ἄσπασαι
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
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ἀσπάσησθε
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Subjunctive
- Possibility or purpose — "might", "should".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἠσπάσατο
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle Deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ἀπησπασάμεθα
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ἠσπάζοντο
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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Ἀσπάζομαι
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ἀσπάζεσθαι
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Middle Or Passive
- Can be read as middle or passive; context decides.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 49 verses across 17 of the 27 books. Most frequent in Romans (16 verses); never once in the other 10.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.