Strong's #2564: kaleo (pronounced kal-eh'-o)
akin to the base of 2753; to "call" (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise):--bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-)name (was (called)).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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kaleō
1) to call
1a) to call aloud, utter in a loud voice
1b) to invite
2) to call, i.e. to name, by name
2a) to give a name to
2a1) to receive the name of, receive as a name
2a2) to give some name to one, call his name
2b) to be called, i.e. to bear a name or title (among men)
2c) to salute one by name
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: akin to the base of G2753
Citing in TDNT: 3:487, 394
Usage:
This word is used 146 times:
Luke 9:10: "into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida."
Luke 10:39: "she had a sister called Mary, which also sat"
Luke 14:7: "he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the"
Luke 14:8: "When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down"
Luke 14:8: "lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him;"
Luke 14:9: "And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee,"
Luke 14:10: "But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest"
Luke 14:10: "room; that when he bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee,"
Luke 14:12: "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner"
Luke 14:13: "when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:"
Luke 14:16: "a great supper, and bade many:"
Luke 14:17: "at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are"
Luke 14:24: "none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper."
Luke 15:19: "am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me"
Luke 15:21: "and am no more worthy to be called thy son."
Luke 19:2: "And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which"
Luke 19:13: "And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten"
Luke 19:29: "at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his"
Luke 20:44: "David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then"
Luke 21:37: "in the mount that is called the mount of Olives."
Luke 22:25: "and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors."
Luke 23:33: "to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him,"
John 1:42: "son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone."
John 2:2: "And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to"
John 10:3: "his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name,"
Acts 1:12: "Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem"
Acts 1:19: "insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama,"
Acts 1:23: "they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus,"
Acts 3:11: "in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering."
Acts 4:18: "And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all"
Acts 7:58: "at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul."
Acts 9:11: "into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in"
Acts 10:1: "a centurion of the band called the Italian"
Acts 13:1: "as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius"
Acts 14:12: "And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius,"
Acts 15:37: "determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark."
Acts 24:2: "And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by"
Acts 27:8: "unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was"
Acts 27:14: "it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon."
Acts 27:16: "running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by"
Acts 28:1: "that the island was called Melita."
Romans 4:17: "the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were."
Romans 8:30: "he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them"
Romans 8:30: "called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and"
Romans 9:7: "Isaac shall thy seed be called."
Romans 9:11: "works, but of him that calleth;)"
Romans 9:24: "Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only,"
Romans 9:25: "also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not"
Romans 9:26: "my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."
1 Corinthians 1:9: "is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son"
