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Γάμος (gamos) means marriage, wedding, or wedding feast. Jesus compares the kingdom to a royal wedding banquet prepared for a son, where invitation, refusal, gathered guests, and fitting participation expose responses to the king.
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Γάμος (gamos) means marriage, wedding, or wedding feast. Jesus compares the kingdom to a royal wedding banquet prepared for a son, where invitation, refusal, gathered guests, and fitting participation expose responses to the king.
The BSB source-word alignment has 16 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include wedding banquet (4), Marriage (3), a wedding banquet (2), banquet (2), wedding (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 22:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (9), John (2), Luke (2), Revelation (2).
Γάμος (gamos) means marriage, wedding, or wedding feast. Jesus compares the kingdom to a royal wedding banquet prepared for a son, where invitation, refusal, gathered guests, and fitting participation expose responses to the king. He tells servants to remain ready for a master returning from a wedding, making the feast the setting for watchful service. John locates Jesus' first sign at a Cana wedding, where ordinary marriage joy becomes the scene of revealed glory.
Hebrews commands everyone to honor marriage and keep the marriage bed undefiled under God's judgment. Revelation announces the marriage of the Lamb and the readiness of His bride as the goal of redemptive celebration. The noun may denote the covenant institution or its feast; each passage controls how earthly marriage, readiness, holiness, and eschatological fulfillment relate.
Γάμος names marriage or a wedding feast. It frames kingdom invitation, watchful waiting, Jesus' Cana sign, honorable marital faithfulness, and the climactic marriage of the Lamb.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
The king prepares a wedding banquet for his son, but invited guests refuse and mistreat messengers, turning royal generosity into a searching parable of response and judgment.
Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.
Servants wait for a master returning from a wedding so they can open immediately, making uncertain timing an occasion for alert, active faithfulness.
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
The Cana wedding is a real community celebration where Jesus supplies wine, manifests His glory, and leads disciples toward belief.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Hebrews commands honor for marriage and purity in the marriage bed, placing sexual faithfulness under God's judgment rather than private preference.
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
Heaven rejoices because the Lamb's marriage has arrived and His bride is ready, bringing covenant union, righteous deeds, and worship into the vision's climax.
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Greek word. Wedding feast and celebration, not merely the ceremony or state of marriage itself
Wedding feast and celebration, not merely the ceremony or state of marriage itself
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
Read versea marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
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 this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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γάμος is of uncertain origin - no further derivation.
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Marriage and wedding celebration gather covenant, joy, fidelity, and public belonging. Jesus' banquet parable makes the king's generosity real but not trivial; refusal and unfitting participation reveal contempt for the son. The waiting servants show that wedding absence does not justify sleep but calls for readiness. Cana honors an ordinary marriage while directing attention beyond the couple to Jesus' glory.
Hebrews safeguards the covenant from both social dishonor and sexual betrayal, because God judges what human culture privatizes. Revelation completes the trajectory without erasing the earlier meanings: the Lamb's bride is a redeemed people prepared for union and celebration. Churches should honor marriages, protect covenant fidelity, welcome people into kingdom proclamation, and live ready for Christ without turning wedding imagery into speculation or making singleness spiritually second-class.
Matt.22.2
Γάμος is a noun that can denote marriage as a state or the wedding celebration and banquet. Plural forms may refer to wedding festivities. Host, bridegroom, bride, and meal context establish the sense.
Creation establishes marriage, prophets use marital covenant imagery, Jesus attends weddings and teaches through wedding feasts, and Revelation announces the Lamb's marriage.
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