γάμος gámos
Meaning
nuptials
In the King James Version: marriage, wedding
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
Where it is used
- Matthew 22:2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
- Matthew 22:3 He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
- Matthew 22:4 Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
- Matthew 22:8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
- Matthew 22:9 Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
- Matthew 22:10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
- Matthew 22:11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
- Matthew 22:12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
- Matthew 25:10 But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
- Luke 12:36 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.
- Luke 14:8 “When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
- John 2:1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
- John 2:2 and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
- Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Revelation 19:7 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.
- Revelation 19:9 Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”