Gameō (γαμέω) means to marry — to enter into the covenant of marriage. The active form typically means for a man to take a wife; the passive or middle can refer to a woman being married. Jesus uses this verb in his teachings on divorce, remarriage, and the age to come, while Paul discusses its wisdom in the context of the present distress (1 Corinthians 7).
Jesus' teaching on marriage reveals its origin in creation (Matthew 19:4-6) and its binding, covenantal nature: "what God has joined together, let not man separate." Paul's nuanced counsel in 1 Corinthians 7 ("it is better to marry than to burn with passion") was not a denigration of marriage but practical wisdom in a specific context — Paul himself affirmed marriage as honorable in Hebrews 13:4.