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G3049 is a verb for reckoning, counting, crediting, considering, reasoning, or regarding. Its 40 governed forms include a person or thing being counted in a category, a benefit or wrong being credited or charged, a conclusion reached by thought, a person regarded in a certain way, and a matter deliberately taken into consideration.
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G3049 is a verb for reckoning, counting, crediting, considering, reasoning, or regarding. Its 40 governed forms include a person or thing being counted in a category, a benefit or wrong being credited or charged, a conclusion reached by thought, a person regarded in a certain way, and a matter deliberately taken into consideration.
The BSB source-word alignment has 40 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include it was credited (5), [Abraham] reasoned (1), [righteousness] will be credited (1), [whom] I regard (1), are not credited (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 22:37. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (19), 2 Corinthians (8), 1 Corinthians (3), Philippians (2).
G3049 is a verb for reckoning, counting, crediting, considering, reasoning, or regarding. Its 40 governed forms include a person or thing being counted in a category, a benefit or wrong being credited or charged, a conclusion reached by thought, a person regarded in a certain way, and a matter deliberately taken into consideration. Romans 4 repeatedly uses the verb while arguing from Abraham's faith being credited as righteousness and from sin not being counted.
Other passages use it for Jesus being numbered with transgressors, believers counting themselves dead to sin, love keeping no account of wrongs, God not counting trespasses, Paul considering suffering, Abraham reasoning about resurrection, and the mind attending to worthy things. The verb supplies an act of reckoning or consideration, but each context identifies the subject, object, basis, and truth of that reckoning.
Forty exact G3049 forms occur in 39 verses across 12 books. The governed range includes counting or crediting, regarding or classifying, reasoning or considering, and deliberate mental attention.
For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’
The occurrence concerns being placed within a counted category and is governed by Jesus' fulfillment claim.
For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’
The quotation anchors Paul's extended argument about faith, works, promise, and righteousness.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.
The negative reckoning of sin belongs to Paul's appeal to David's blessing.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
Here the verb describes what love refuses to keep in its treatment of others.
That God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them.
The non-counting of trespasses appears within Paul's statement of reconciliation and entrusted message.
I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
Paul reaches a contextual judgment about suffering and future glory rather than recording a credit or charge.
Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
The verb names Abraham's reasoning within the account of faith and offering.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. To reckon or impute something to someone's account, especially in forensic or covenant contexts.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 41 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.
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How this verb appears across 40 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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Showing 2 selected witnesses from 40 lexical occurrence verses.
λογίζομαι is built from this root:
It explains how righteousness is credited to believers apart from works.
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
G3049 brings together several acts that English expresses differently. A person can be numbered within a group, righteousness can be credited, sin or trespasses can be counted or not counted, believers can count themselves in light of union with Christ, and a thinker can consider a conclusion. Love's refusal to keep an account of wrongs and Paul's request that abandonment not be charged against others belong to relational settings, while Hebrews 11 describes Abraham's reasoning and Philippians 4 directs deliberate attention.
Romans 4 remains a major concentration, but its argument should be taught from Paul's full treatment of Abraham, David, works, faith, promise, and resurrection rather than from the lexeme alone. The common thread is reckoning or consideration; the theological character of each act comes from its subject, object, ground, and context.
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The 40 governed forms represent 21 surface forms and 20 parsing patterns, including middle or passive forms, passive crediting or classification, commands, infinitives, participles, and reasoned judgments. Translation must follow syntax and context rather than force one English accounting term everywhere.
Romans 4, Galatians 3, and James 2 cite Genesis 15:6, while Romans 4 also cites the blessing associated with sin not counted. Luke 22 places the verb inside Jesus' Scripture-fulfillment statement. Each New Testament writer's use and argument must govern how the earlier text is applied.
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