Quick Definition
κρεμάννυμι v. I hang up, suspend
Strong's Definition
to hang
Derivation: a prolonged form of a primary verb;
KJV Usage: hang
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | midd. κρέμαμαι · aor.ptc. κρεμάσας · aor.pass.ptc. κρεμασθείς | ἐκκρέμαμαι · κατακρημνίζω · κρημνός
18.23 · Attachment · Fasten, Stick To
to make to hang, to be hung from to cause to hang down from
20.76 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Kill
Collocation: κρεμάννυμι ἐπὶ ξύλου
to crucify (an idiom, literally: to hang on a tree) to execute someone by nailing that person to a cross It is possible to understand ξύλου in ACT 5:30 as ξύλον[f] ‘cross’ (6.28) and to interpret the expression literally as ‘... you seized and killed by hanging him on a cross.’
18.22 · (κρέμαμαι[a]) · Attachment · Fasten, Stick To
to hang from, to hang down from to hang down from some point
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κρεμάννυμι, also κρεμαννύω [ “scarcely classic” (Veitch 8. ν.}7, κρεμάω -ὦ [still later” (ibid.)], and (Sept. Job xxvi. 7 and Byzant. writ.) κρεμάζω, (in the N. T. the pres. does not occur): 1 aor. ἐκρέμασα; 1 aor. pass. ἐκρεμάσθην; fr. Hom. down; Sept. for 19m; to hang up, suspend: τὶ ἐπί τι (Ree.), περί τι (LT Tr WH), [εἴς τι, Taf. edd. 2, 7), Mt. xviii. 6; τινὰ ἐπὶ ξύλου, Acts v. 30; x. 39, (Gen. x1. 19, 22; Deut. xxi. 22; Esth. vi. 4, ete.) ; simply κρεμασθείς, of one crucified, Lk. xxiii. 39. Mid. κρέμαμαι (for κρεμάννυμαι, cf. Biim. Ausf. Spr. ii. p. 224); intrans. to be suspended, to hang: foll. by ἐκ with gen. of the thing, Acts xxviii. 4 (see ἐκ, I. 3); ἐπὶ ξύλον, of one hanging on a cross, Gal. iii. 13; trop. ἔν τινι, Mt. xxii. 40, where the meaning is, all tue Law and the Prophets (i. e. the teaching of the O. T. on morality) is summed up in these two precepts. [CoMmp.: ἐκ-κρέμαμαι.} " [κρεπάλη, see κραιπάλη.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κρεμάννυμι kremannymi 7x
also spelled κρέμαμαι and κρεμάζω, to hang, suspend, Acts 5:30; 10:39; pass. to be hung, suspended, Mt. 18:6; Lk. 23:39; mid. κρέμαμαι, to hang, be suspended, Acts 28:4; Gal. 3:13; met. κρέμαμαι ἐν, to hang upon, to be referable to as an ultimate principle, Mt. 22:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κρεμάννυμι
(also κρεμαννύω, κρεμάω; the pres. is not found in NT), [in LXX (where also κρεμάζω, Jb 26:7) chiefly for תּלה;]
trans., to hang, suspend: c. acc. pers., seq. ἐπὶ ξύλου, Ac 5:30 10:39; pass., Lk 23:39; seq. περί, Mt 18:6. Mid., κρέμαμαι, intrans., to hang: seq. ἐκ, Ac 28:4; ἐπὶ ξύλου, Ga 3:13(LXX); metaph., seq. ἐν, Mt 22:40.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κρεμάω (kremaō) — to hang. Included with: κρεμ-άννῡμι, [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; κρεμαννύω, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κρεμάω, [Refs 4th c.BC+], etc.; κρεμνάω, [Refs]; κρεμάζω, [LXX](variant{κρεμνῶν}): present participle κρεμάντες [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: future κρεμάσω [ᾰ] [LXX+8th c.BC+]: aorist 1 [Refs 6th c.BC+], Epic dialect and Lyric poetry [Refs 8th c.BC+] infinitive [Refs] (Epid.); perfect [Refs 1st c.AD+]:—middle, aorist infinitive [Refs 8th c.BC+], subjunctive [Refs 2nd c.AD+] — passive, κρέμαμαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive [Refs 5th c.BC+]; subjunctive [Refs 6th c.BC+]: imperfect ἐκρεμάμην, ω, ατο, [Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.: future κρεμήσομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist [Refs 6th c.BC+], etc.: perfect imperative [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: pluperfect [Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Cf. κρημνός, Goth. hramjan 'crucify'):
I. hang up, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; καὶ κρεμόω προτὶ νηόν will bring them to the temple and hang them up there as an offering, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. [τὰς ὗς] τῶν ὀπισθίων σκελῶν by the hind legs, [Refs 5th c.BC+] hang up one's shield, i.e. have done with war, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—so in middle, πηδάλιον κρεμάσασθαι hang up one's rudder, i.e. give up the sea, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
I.2. hang, τινα [Refs 4th c.BC+]; crucify, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. passive, to be hung up, suspended, ὅτε τ᾽ ἐκρέμω (2nd pers. singular imperfect) ὑψόθεν when thou wert hanging, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; to be hung up as a votive offering, [Refs 6th c.BC+]: metaphorically, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῶμος κρέματαί τινι censure hangs over him, [Refs]; κρέμασθαι ἔκ τινος to be wholly taken up with a thing, [Refs 6th c.BC+].
II.2. to be hanged, of persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. metaphorically, to be in suspense, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. [ὁλόγος] [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.4. ={ὀκλάζω}, [Refs 4th c.BC+]