Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to name
Usage: ἐπ-ονομάζω [in LXX chiefly for קָרָא ;] to name, call by a name, surname: pass., Rom.2:17.† (AS)
Eponomazo means “call” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2028 — haregah (“slaughter”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2028 ἐπονομάζω (eponomazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eponomazo (ep-on-om-ad'-zo) v. 1. to name further, i.e. denominate [from G1909 and G3687] It has 35 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include called. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
eponomazo (ep-on-om-ad'-zo) v. 1. to name further, i.e. denominate [from G1909 and G3687] KJV: call Root(s): G1909, G3687
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to name
Usage: ἐπ-ονομάζω [in LXX chiefly for קָרָא ;] to name, call by a name, surname: pass., Rom.2:17.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eponomazo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2028 (ἐπονομάζω) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
34 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enosh: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.
First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2028.
And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enosh: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.
male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.
And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed.
Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.
And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.
And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.
And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
And Leah said, It is happily: and she called his name, Gad.
And when the boy was grown, she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son; and she called his name, Moses, saying, I took him out of the water.
And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.
And they came to Marah, and could not drink of Marah, for it was bitter; therefore he named the name of that place, Bitterness.
And the children of Israel called the name of it Manna; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.
And he called the name of that place, Temptation, and Reviling, because of the reviling of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?
And Moses built an altar to the Lord, and called the name of it, The Lord my Refuge.
Ye shall make to me an altar of earth; and upon it ye shall sacrifice your whole burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, and your sheep and your calves in every place, where I shall record my name; and I will come to thee and bless thee.
And the son of the Israelitish woman named THE NAME and cursed; and they brought him to Moses: and his mother’s name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.
These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.
And they called that place, The Valley of the Cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
and Baal-meon, surrounded with walls, and Sibmah; and they called the names of the cities which they built, after their own names.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their villages, and called them the villages of Jair.
And Nobah went and took Kohath and her villages, and called them Nobah after his name.
These also shall be accounted Rephaim like the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.
The Phoenicians call Hermon Sirion, but the Amorite has called it Senir.
And Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country round about Argob as far as the borders of Geshur and Maacath: he called them by his name Bashan-havvoth-jair until this day.
But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go thither.
And they set up over him a great heap of stones; and the Lord ceased from his fierce anger. Therefore he called the place Emec Achor until this day.
And Joshua gave a name to the altar of the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasseh; and said, It is a testimony in the midst of them, that the Lord is their God.
And they named the name of that place Weepings; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
but God said, Thou shalt not build me a house to call my name upon it, for thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.
So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: and Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, in the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of the children of Israel to call his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
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Eponomazo (Strong's G2028) is a Greek word most simply glossed "call". eponomazo (ep-on-om-ad'-zo) v. 1. to name further, i.e. denominate [from G1909 and G3687]
This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's G2028 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2028 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as called. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 34 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2028, with linked reader references where each row is available.