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Matthew 22:2 γάμους a wedding feast

“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

Here: The plural means the wedding festivities, a celebration that could last days. It is the party and the feast, not the marriage bond or a ceremony. A royal wedding for the heir was the biggest public celebration a kingdom could hold.

Matthew 22:3 γάμους, wedding feast,

He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

Here: Plural: 'the wedding festivities', the celebration and banquet that could last for days. It does not mean a ceremony. This is a royal feast for the heir.

Matthew 22:4 γάμους. wedding feast.

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.’

Here: The Greek is plural, 'the wedding festivities'. That fits a celebration that could run for several days, not a single ceremony.

Matthew 22:8 γάμος wedding feast

Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

Matthew 22:9 γάμους. wedding feast.

Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’

Here: Plural. It means the wedding celebrations, a feast that could last several days, not a marriage ceremony or the institution of marriage. It is the royal wedding feast for the king's son (v. 2).

Matthew 22:10 γάμος wedding hall

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.

Here: The wedding feast. In this sentence it stands for the place where the feast is held, so 'wedding hall' is a fair rendering. Some manuscripts make this explicit with nymphōn, 'wedding hall'.

Matthew 22:11 γάμου of wedding

But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

Here: 'Of the wedding': clothing that suits this occasion, the king's feast for his son. The same word names the feast in 22:2-4 and 22:8-9, and the filled hall in 22:10. The man's dress does not fit the celebration he has joined.

Matthew 22:12 γάμου; of wedding?

‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.

Here: "Of a wedding": clothing that suits a wedding feast. Here the feast is a king's banquet for his son (v.2), an image of the celebration of God's coming reign.

Matthew 25:10 γάμους, wedding feast,

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.

Here: Plural, as often in Greek for the wedding celebrations as a whole: the days-long feasting at the groom's house, not the marriage bond or a ceremony. Same word as the king's wedding banquet in Matt 22:2–12.

Luke 12:36 γάμων, wedding feasts,

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.

Here: Plural, meaning the wedding festivities. These could last for days, so nobody at home could know when a guest would leave. That is why the master's return time is unknown.

Luke 14:8 γάμους, wedding feasts,

“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 γάμος a wedding

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

Here: The wedding celebration, the feast that marked a bride being brought into her husband's home. It is not a vow ceremony or the institution of marriage in the abstract.

John 2:2 γάμον. wedding.

and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Here: The wedding celebration: the feast and the festivities, which could last for days. It does not mean marriage as an institution or the ceremony of vows.

Hebrews 13:4 γάμος marriage [be]

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Here: Often 'wedding feast' in the Gospels. Here it means the married state, the lasting union of husband and wife.

Revelation 19:7 γάμος marriage

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.

Here: The wedding as an event: the ceremony and especially the feast. It does not mean marriage as a lasting state. Verse 9 picks it up directly: "the wedding supper of the Lamb."

Revelation 19:9 γάμου marriage

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.”

Here: The wedding celebration announced in 19:7 ('the wedding of the Lamb has come'). The word means the festivities themselves, not marriage as a lifelong state.