Timoreo means “punish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5097 — nahalol (“bush”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5097 τιμωρέω (timoreo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. timoreo (tim-o-reh'-o) v. 1. (properly) to protect one's honor, i.e. to avenge (inflict a penalty) [from a comparative of G5092 and ouros (a guard)] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include punished. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
timoreo (tim-o-reh'-o) v. 1. (properly) to protect one's honor, i.e. to avenge (inflict a penalty) [from a comparative of G5092 and ouros (a guard)] KJV: punish Root(s): G5092
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to punish
Usage: τιμωρέω, -ῶ (τιμή + οὖρος, a guardian) [in LXX: Eze.5:17 14:15 (שָׁכֹל pi), Wis.12:20 18:8, al. ;] __1. to help. __2. to avenge; mid., to avenge oneself on, punish (Hdt., Eur., al): act, in this sense, Act.22:5 26:11 (see MM, xxiv).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render timoreo, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 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 G5097 (τιμωρέω) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, But fools pass by and are punished.
So I will send forth against thee famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon thee; and I will bring a sword upon thee round about. I the Lord have spoken.
If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts:
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?
by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5097.
An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, But fools pass by and are punished.
So I will send forth against thee famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon thee; and I will bring a sword upon thee round about. I the Lord have spoken.
If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts:
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?
by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.
and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.
And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, Giving them time and place whereby they might be delivered from their malice:
For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries, By the same thou didst glorify us, whom thou hadst called.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5097, grouped by book.
Timoreo (Strong's G5097) is a Greek word most simply glossed "punish". timoreo (tim-o-reh'-o) v. 1. (properly) to protect one's honor, i.e. to avenge (inflict a penalty) [from a comparative of G5092 and ouros (a guard)]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G5097 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5097 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as punished. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5097, with linked reader references where each row is available.