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G1325 is a broad Greek verb for giving, granting, entrusting, handing over, assigning, or causing something to be available. The construction and passage identify the giver, recipient, object, and purpose.
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G1325 is a broad Greek verb for giving, granting, entrusting, handing over, assigning, or causing something to be available. The construction and passage identify the giver, recipient, object, and purpose.
The BSB source-word alignment has 415 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Give (42), gave (26), to give (19), was given (15), given (11).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:9. Its strongest book concentrations include John (75), Luke (60), Revelation (58), Matthew (56).
This entry includes 5 verse guides that explain exact original-language forms in context.
G1325 is a broad Greek verb for giving, granting, entrusting, handing over, assigning, or causing something to be available. The construction and passage identify the giver, recipient, object, and purpose. Its hundreds of uses include divine gifts, human transfers, commands, authority, entrusted responsibilities, people given for service, and actions that are not beneficial gifts at all. The verb supplies an act of giving, not one theology that applies unchanged everywhere.
John 3:16 speaks of God giving the Son within the declaration of divine love and saving purpose. John 10:28 has Jesus giving eternal life to his sheep. Romans 5:5 says the Holy Spirit has been given to believers, and Ephesians 4:11 describes Christ giving people in relation to equipping and building the church. These passages reveal their gifts through their own arguments; other G1325 occurrences must not be forced into the same saving sense.
Giving language can be misused when leaders call demands a divine gift, treat entrusted roles as personal ownership, or imply that receiving obligates loyalty to the giver. G1325 itself does not establish voluntariness, permanence, authority limits, sacramental efficacy, or the recipient's response. Those claims require the surrounding grammar and theology. Genuine gifts and responsibilities should be received with gratitude and stewardship without converting grace into control.
The local artifact currently counts about 415 uses of G1325. Its broad giving range becomes specific only when the passage identifies the giver, object, recipient, construction, and purpose.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
God gave His one and only Son. The verb serves the passage's witness to divine love and saving purpose.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
Jesus gives eternal life to His sheep. The gift is defined by His preserving power in the passage.
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
The Spirit has been given to believers. The verb supports assurance grounded in God's poured-out love.
And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
Christ gave people as gifts for the church's ministry. The passage defines the gift in relation to equipping.
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
God has given eternal life, and this life is in His Son. The giving language serves testimony about life in Christ.
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Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Greek word. Give with complete authority and personal investment; often implies committed transfer of power or responsibility.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 413 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
How this verb appears across 412 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
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Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 1 selected witness from 415 lexical occurrence verses.
δίδωμι is a primary verb - no further derivation.
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
A broad giving verb becomes theologically meaningful through its relationships. In John 3:16, God gives the Son within saving love. In John 10:28, Jesus gives eternal life to his sheep. Romans 5:5 speaks of the Holy Spirit given to believers, and Ephesians 4:11 describes people given in relation to the church's equipping. These are not interchangeable gifts, even though the same verb appears.
G1325 teaches readers to resist a vague "gift principle" and follow each sentence. It also protects stewardship: a role entrusted by God is not a leader's possession, and a human gift does not purchase loyalty or silence. Gratitude can coexist with discernment, boundaries, accountability, and refusal of manipulative obligations. The passage, not the gloss, defines the gift's promise and claim.
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G1325 occurs in varied active and passive constructions. Direct and indirect objects, prepositional phrases, verbal complements, and discourse context help distinguish giving, granting, entrusting, handing over, assigning, or causing. The local count of about 415 signals breadth, not one dominant theological sense.
Scripture consistently presents God as the giver of life, promise, provision, and grace. didomi can mark those gifts in Greek, but the passage defines whether the emphasis is salvation, ministry, authority, or ordinary transfer.
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