noun · masculine
gamos
Strong’sG1062
a marriage, wedding, wedding-feast
stem gam-16 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books5 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Γάμος refers to a wedding or wedding-feast, the celebration held to mark a marriage 124. This is the sense found in accounts of a wedding at Cana, in parables about wedding feasts, and in the description of a great feast in Revelation, where the word (often in the plural) denotes the actual celebration or banquet 1.
Γάμος also means marriage itself, the state or institution rather than the celebration, as in the statement that marriage is to be honored by all 1234.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
γάμος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for מִשְׁתֶּה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1062 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgam'-os
nuptials
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesmarriage, wedding.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
wedding, Refs 8th c.BC+; γάμον τεύχειν furnish forth a wedding, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀρτύεινRefs 4th c.BC+; of a single wedding, οἰκοσίτους τοὺς γ. ποιεῖσθαι NT+4th c.BC+
II marriage, wedlock, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὸν Οἰνέως γ. the marriage granted by O., Refs 5th c.BC+, i.e. prostitution, Refs 4th c.BC+; Πανὸς ἀναβοᾷ γάμους, i.e. rape, Refs 5th c.BC+; of unlawful wedlock, as of Paris and Helen, Refs 5th c.BC+, do not establish the sense of a wife; for Refs 5th c.BC+
III ἱερὸς γ. ritual marriage, Refs 4th c.BC+; name of play by Ale.Comedy texts
IV Refs 4th c.BC+ name for three, Refs; for five, Refs 1st c.AD+
V Γάμος personified, Refs 3rd c.BC+
VI name of month at Epidaurus, Refs. (Perh. akin to Sanskrit jāmís 'brother or sister', Latin geminus.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gamos5×γάμος | gamois |
| object accusative | gamon1×γάμον | gamoin6×γάμους |
| direct address vocative | gamor | gamoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | gamou3×γάμου | gamoiu1×γάμων |
| to, for dative | gamo | gamoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gamo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
16 occurrences, every one of them listed
gamos“wedding”subjectnominative singular5×
Matthew 22:8… legatō toi douloi autou; Tos men gamos hetoimos atō, tois de kalorēntois ouk …… he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I …
Matthew 22:10… tē kai agathoin; kai pimplēita tos gamos anakeiorōntoiu.… both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
John 2:1Kai ta hēmera ta trita gamos geneta en Kana tau Galilaiau, kai …On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee …
Hebrews 13:4timios tos gamos en pantoi kai tas koitas amiantas, …Marriage should be honored by all and …
Revelation 19:7… tan doxan auto, hoti erchata tos gamos teu arnieu, kai tas gunaikas autou …… give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and …
gamon“wedding”objectaccusative singular1×
John 2:2… kai tois mathētois autou eis ton gamon.… had also been invited to the wedding.
gamou“wedding”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 22:11… horata ekei anthrōpon ouk enduorēnton endumem gamou;… man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
Matthew 22:12… pōs eiserchasa hōde mē echarōntos endumem gamou? tos de fimita.… did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
Revelation 19:9… Makariois tois eis tem deipnem tou gamou teu arnieu kalorēntois. kai legatō mi; …… those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he …
gamoin“wedding banquet”objectaccusative plural6×
Matthew 22:2… toiu ouranoiu anthrōpo basilevo, hotinos poiata gamoin to huio autou.… like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
Matthew 22:3… autou kalara toin kalorēntoin eis toin gamoin, kai ouk thelale erchara.… those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
Matthew 22:4… kai panteim hetoimeim; deute eis toin gamoin.… everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
Matthew 22:9… hosoin ean heuriskaveia kalavar eis toin gamoin.… the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
Matthew 25:10… hetoimais eiserchala meta autou eis toin gamoin, kai kleiita tas thuras.… went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
Luke 14:8“wedding feast”Hotan kaliseia hupo tinou eis gamoin, mē katakliniseia eis tan prōtoklisian, mēpote …“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished …
gamoiu“wedding feast”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 12:36“wedding feast”… kurion heautoiu pote analuateia ek toiu gamoiu, hina ercharantou kai krouarantou eutheōs anoigaleia …… waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for …