γραφή, -ῆς, ἡ (γράφω), [in LXX chiefly for כְּתָב ;] 1. a drawing, painting. 2. (a) writing; (b) that which is written, a writing: πᾶσα γ., 2Ti.3:16; γ. ἅγιαι, Rom.1:2; προφητικαί, Rom.16:26; al αἱ γ. τ. προφητῶν, Mat.26:56; ἡ γ., αἱ γ., the sacred writings, the Scriptures (i.e. the OT; see Milligan, NTD, 205); in pl., when the sacred writings as a whole are meant, e.g. Mat.21:42 26:54, Jhn.5:39, Rom.15:4; in sing., when a particular passage is referred to, as in Luk.4:21, Jhn.19:24, Rom.4:3 9:17 10:11 11:2, Jas.2:23 (Cremer, 165; DCG, ii, 584). (AS)
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G1124 — γραφή
graphē · a writing · Greek
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Matthew 21:42 · γραφαῖς·Jesus saith to them, ‘Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.Matthew 22:29 · γραφὰςAnd Jesus answering said to them, ‘Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;Matthew 26:54 · γραφαὶhow then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it behoveth to happen?’Matthew 26:56 · γραφαὶbut all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;’ then all the disciples, having left him, fled.Mark 12:10 · γραφὴνAnd this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:Mark 12:24 · γραφὰςAnd Jesus answering said to them, ‘Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?Mark 14:49 · γραφαί.daily I was with you in the temple teaching, and ye did not lay hold on me—but that the Writings may be fulfilled.’Luke 4:21 · γραφὴAnd he began to say unto them—‘To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;’Luke 24:27 · γραφαῖςand having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.Luke 24:32 · γραφάς;¶And they said one to another, ‘Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?’Luke 24:45 · γραφὰςThen opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,John 2:22 · γραφῇwhen, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.John 5:39 · γραφάς,‘Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;John 7:38 · γραφή,he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;’John 7:42 · γραφὴDid not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem—the village where David was—the Christ doth come?’John 10:35 · γραφή,if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)John 13:18 · γραφὴnot concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.John 17:12 · γραφὴwhen I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.John 19:24 · γραφὴthey said, therefore, to one another, ‘We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;’ that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, ‘They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;’ the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things.John 19:28 · γραφή,After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, ‘I thirst;’John 19:36 · γραφὴFor these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, ‘A bone of him shall not be broken;’John 19:37 · γραφὴand again another Writing saith, ‘They shall look to him whom they did pierce.’John 20:9 · γραφὴνfor not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.Acts 1:16 · γραφὴν‘Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,Acts 8:32 · γραφῆςAnd the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: ‘As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;Acts 8:35 · γραφῆςand Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him—Jesus.Acts 17:2 · γραφῶν,and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,Acts 17:11 · γραφὰςand these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;Acts 18:24 · γραφαῖς.And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus,Acts 18:28 · γραφῶνfor powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.Romans 1:2 · γραφαῖςwhich He announced before through His prophets in holy writings—Romans 4:3 · γραφὴfor what doth the writing say? ‘And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;’Romans 9:17 · γραφὴfor the Writing saith to Pharaoh—‘For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;’Romans 10:11 · γραφή·for the Writing saith, ‘Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,’Romans 11:2 · γραφή,God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known—in Elijah—what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,Romans 15:4 · γραφῶνfor, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.1 Corinthians 15:3 · γραφὰςfor I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,1 Corinthians 15:4 · γραφὰςand that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,Galatians 3:8 · γραφὴand the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham—Galatians 3:22 · γραφὴbut the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.Galatians 4:30 · γραφή;but what saith the Writing? ‘Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;’1 Timothy 5:18 · γραφή·for the Writing saith, ‘An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,’ and ‘Worthy is the workman of his reward.’2 Timothy 3:16 · γραφὴevery Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,James 2:8 · γραφήν·If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,’—ye do well;James 2:23 · γραφὴand fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, ‘And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;’ and, ‘Friend of God’ he was called.James 4:5 · γραφὴDo ye think that emptily the Writing saith, ‘To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,’1 Peter 2:6 · γραφῇ·Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: ‘Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;’2 Peter 1:20 · γραφῆςthis first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,2 Peter 3:16 · γραφὰςas also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.