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Strong's G2753 κελεύω (keleuo)

Keleuo means “bid” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2753 — chori (“Hori”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2753
Language Greek
Linked Usages 55
Books 11

Strong's G2753 Quick Answer

Strong's G2753 κελεύω (keleuo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. keleuo (kel-yoo'-o) v. 1. "hail", to incite by word, i.e. order [from a primary kello "to urge on"] It has 55 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include commanded, bid, command, commandest, and commanding. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
keleuo (kel-yoo'-o) v. 1. "hail", to incite by word, i.e. order [from a primary kello "to urge on"]
Usage
55 linked usages
Books
11 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
commanded, bid, command, commandest, and commanding

Meaning and Definition

keleuo (kel-yoo'-o) v. 1. "hail", to incite by word, i.e. order [from a primary kello "to urge on"] KJV: bid, (at, give) command(-ment)

Original Word
κελεύω
Transliteration
keleuo
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2753. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to order

Usage: κελεύω [in LXX: I Est.9:53, Tob.8:18, al., and frequently in 1-4Mac ;] to urge on, bid by word of mouth, order, command (mostly of one in authority): with accusative and inf. aor., Mat.14:19, 28 18:25 27:64, Luk.18:40, Act.4:15 5:34 8:38 22:30 23:10 25:6, 17; with ellipse of accusative, Mat.8:18 14:9 27:58, Act.12:19 21:33; with accusative and inf. Pres., Act.21:34 22:24 23:3, 35 25:21 27:43; with ellipse of accusative, Act.16:22; ptcp. aor., Act.25:23.† SYN.: see: ἐντέλλω (AS)

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How Strong's G2753 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render keleuo, 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.

commanded Matthew 14:9 21× Command Matthew 27:64 Commanding Acts 24:8 bid Matthew 14:28 commandest Acts 23:3

How Strong's G2753 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha with 28 linked usages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2753 (κελεύω) appears 26 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2753 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G2753 in the New Testament

27 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 8:18 KJV

Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.

Matthew 14:9 KJV

And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.

Matthew 14:19 KJV

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Strong's G2753 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

28 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 9:53 Septuagint / Brenton

So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful.

Judith 2:15 Septuagint / Brenton

and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;

Judith 12:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Then he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set; and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that she should drink of his own wine.

Usage Excerpts

First 55 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2753.

Matthew 8:18 New Testament, KJV
Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
Matthew 14:9 New Testament, KJV
And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
Matthew 14:19 New Testament, KJV
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew 14:28 New Testament, KJV
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
Matthew 15:35 New Testament, KJV
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
Matthew 18:25 New Testament, KJV
But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Matthew 27:58 New Testament, KJV
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
Matthew 27:64 New Testament, KJV
Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Luke 18:40 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,
Acts 4:15 New Testament, KJV
But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Acts 5:34 New Testament, KJV
Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
Acts 8:38 New Testament, KJV
And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Acts 12:19 New Testament, KJV
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
Acts 16:22 New Testament, KJV
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Acts 21:33 New Testament, KJV
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Acts 21:34 New Testament, KJV
And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
Acts 22:24 New Testament, KJV
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
Acts 22:30 New Testament, KJV
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
Acts 23:3 New Testament, KJV
Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts 23:10 New Testament, KJV
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
Acts 23:35 New Testament, KJV
I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
Acts 24:8 New Testament, KJV
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
Acts 25:6 New Testament, KJV
And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
Acts 25:17 New Testament, KJV
Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
Acts 25:21 New Testament, KJV
But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
Acts 25:23 New Testament, KJV
And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
Acts 27:43 New Testament, KJV
But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
1 Esdras 9:53 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful.
Judith 2:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
Judith 12:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set; and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that she should drink of his own wine.
1 Maccabees 11:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless Jonathan, when he heard this, commanded to besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the priests, and put himself in peril;
2 Maccabees 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hidden it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;
2 Maccabees 1:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water.
2 Maccabees 1:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Nehemiah commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones.
2 Maccabees 2:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire, as it hath been signified:
2 Maccabees 2:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God.
2 Maccabees 5:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.
2 Maccabees 7:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, he commanded him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the pan: and as the vapor of the pan was for a good space dispersed, they exhorted one another with the mother to die manfully, saying thus,
2 Maccabees 9:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to hasten the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.
2 Maccabees 13:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So when they had all done this together, and besought the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting, and lying flat upon the ground three days long, Judas, having exhorted them, commanded they should be in a readiness.
2 Maccabees 14:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king being in a rage, and provoked with the accusations of the most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was much displeased with the covenants, and commanding him that he should send Maccabeus prisoner in all haste unto Antioch.
2 Maccabees 14:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by Judas’ policy, came into the great and holy temple, and commanded the priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the man.
2 Maccabees 14:41 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when the multitude would have taken the tower, and violently broken into the outer door, and bade that fire should be brought to burn it, he being ready to be taken on every side fell upon his sword;
2 Maccabees 15:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they said, There is in heaven a living Lord, and mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:
3 Maccabees 5:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense infused to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.
3 Maccabees 5:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him.
3 Maccabees 6:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.
4 Maccabees 8:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and wellborn, and altogether comely.
4 Maccabees 8:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and hooks, and catapults, and caldrons, pans, and finger racks, and iron hands, and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continued:
4 Maccabees 9:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the eldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
4 Maccabees 10:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When he had said this, the bloodthirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out.
Daniel 1:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Daniel 1:56 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 151 1:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 151 1:56 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2753, grouped by book.

Matthew 8 usages, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 18 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 13 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2753 FAQ

What does keleuo (κελεύω) mean?

Keleuo (Strong's G2753) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bid". keleuo (kel-yoo'-o) v. 1. "hail", to incite by word, i.e. order [from a primary kello "to urge on"]

How many times is keleuo (κελεύω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 55 linked usages for Strong's G2753 across 11 books.

Where can I study keleuo (κελεύω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2753 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate keleuo (κελεύω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as commanded, bid, command, commandest, and commanding. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2753 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2753, with linked reader references where each row is available.