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:
1 Corinthians 7:15: "such cases: but God hath called us to peace."
1 Corinthians 7:17: "as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And"
1 Corinthians 7:18: "Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in"
1 Corinthians 7:18: "let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised."
1 Corinthians 7:20: "abide in the same calling wherein he was called."
1 Corinthians 7:21: " Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest"
1 Corinthians 7:22: "For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman:"
1 Corinthians 7:22: "freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant."
1 Corinthians 7:24: "Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide"
1 Corinthians 10:27: "If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go;"
1 Corinthians 15:9: "am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the"
Galatians 1:6: "soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ"
Galatians 1:15: "mother's womb, and called me by his grace,"
Galatians 5:8: "This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you."
Galatians 5:13: "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not"
Ephesians 4:1: "of the vocation wherewith ye are called,"
Ephesians 4:4: "one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your"
Colossians 3:15: "to the which also ye are called in one body; and"
1 Thessalonians 2:12: "would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom"
1 Thessalonians 4:7: "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but"
1 Thessalonians 5:24: "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do"
2 Thessalonians 2:14: "Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to"
1 Timothy 6:12: "life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good"
2 Timothy 1:9: "Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according"
Hebrews 2:11: "cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,"
Hebrews 3:13: "daily, while it is called Today;"
Hebrews 5:4: "taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as"
Hebrews 9:15: "transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the"
Hebrews 11:8: "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after"
Hebrews 11:18: "Isaac shall thy seed be called:"
James 2:23: "for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God."
1 Peter 1:15: "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye"
1 Peter 2:9: "ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness"
1 Peter 2:21: "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered"
1 Peter 3:6: "Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters"
1 Peter 3:9: "knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing."
1 Peter 5:10: "God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal"
2 Peter 1:3: "through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and"
1 John 3:1: "hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore"
Revelation 1:9: "in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word"
Revelation 11:8: "city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where"
Revelation 12:9: "was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth"
Revelation 16:16: "he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."
Revelation 19:9: "unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper"
Revelation 19:11: "he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and"
Revelation 19:13: "and his name is called The Word of God."
