Word study
Enroll
3 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: enrolled, enroll. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “enroll” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- אָב âbfathertranslated this way 1 time of its 1,167 uses · Strong’s H1Noun · Translated: father 518, fathers 341, father's 129, families 72Full study and all 1,040 verses →
- יָחַשׂ yâchasenrolltranslated this way 1 time of its 18 uses · Strong’s H3187Verb · Translated: recorded 2, recorded in the genealogies 2, listed in their genealogies 2, registered by genealogy 2Full study and all 18 verses →
Nehemiah 7:5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
- כָּתַב kâthabwritetranslated this way 1 time of its 219 uses · Strong’s H3789Verb · Translated: written 104, write 29, wrote 21, recorded 16Full study and all 210 verses →
Jeremiah 22:30 This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
Greek words (New Testament)
- καταλέγω katalégōI enter in a list, registertranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G2639Verb · Translated: enrolled 1Full study and its 1 verse →
1 Timothy 5:9 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband,
- ἀπογράφω apográphōI enroll, inscribe in a registertranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s G583Verb · Translated: register 2, census should be taken 1, enrolled 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Hebrews 12:23 in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
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- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
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- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.