γάμος

γάμος — gámos

γάμος, γάμου, ὁ (probably from the root, gam, to bind, unite; Curtius, p. 546f), as in Greek writings from Homer down;

1. a wedding or marriage-festival: Joh 2:1; Rev 19:7 (under the figure of a marriage here is represented the intimate and everlasting union of Christ, at his return from heaven, with his church); τό δεῖπνον τοῦ γάμου, Rev 19:9 (a symbol of the future blessings of the Messiah's kingdom); especially a wedding-banquet, a marriage-feast: Mat 22:8; Mat 22:10 (here T WH Tr marginal reading νυμφών), Mat 22:11-12; plural (referring apparently to the several acts of feasting), Mat 22:2 ff,;; Luk 12:36; Luk 14:8 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, 23 (21)).

2. marriage, matrimony: Heb 13:4.