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ἑαυτοῦ

himself

G1438 Strong's Greek
heautoû Transliteration
/heh-ow-too'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 316 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Greek word εαυτου centers on the idea of “himself.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 3:9. Spanning 292 verses in 25 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Related forms include αυτος, αυθαδης and αυθαιρετος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
alone
Modern gloss
himself
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1438 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

292
distinct verses
The word appears in 292 distinct verses.
25 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 25 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:9
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:9.
Revelation 19:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:7.
#58
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 58 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 292 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 133 · 46%
  • Acts 21 · 7%
  • Pauline Epistles 96 · 33%
  • General Epistles 35 · 12%
  • Revelation 7 · 2%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 292 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 133 verses · 46%
  • Pauline corpus 96 verses · 33%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 73 verses · 25%
  • Johannine 39 verses · 13%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 21 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 14 verses · 5%
  • Revelation 7 verses · 2%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Himself 108×, Themselves 57×, Yourselves 35×
  • American Standard Version: Himself 100×, Themselves 48×, Yourselves 32×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Himself 75×, Themselves 33×, Yourselves 29×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Himself 103×, Themselves 53×, Own 45×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1438 across 333 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Himself” 108×
  • “Themselves” 57×
  • “Yourselves” 35×
  • “Ourselves” 20×
  • “Own” 20×
  • “His” 17×
  • “Their” 14×
  • “Itself” 9×
  • “Herself” 5×
  • “Own selves” 5×
  • “You” 5×
  • “One another” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1438 across 329 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Himself” 100×
  • “Themselves” 48×
  • “Yourselves” 32×
  • “Own” 20×
  • “Ourselves” 19×
  • “His” 18×
  • “Their” 15×
  • “Itself” 8×
  • “Own selves” 6×
  • “Them” 6×
  • “Herself” 5×
  • “Him” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1438 across 269 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Himself” 75×
  • “Themselves” 33×
  • “Yourselves” 29×
  • “His” 21×
  • “Own” 21×
  • “Their” 15×
  • “One another” 14×
  • “Ourselves” 14×
  • “Itself” 9×
  • “You” 6×
  • “Them” 4×
  • “He” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 48 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1438 across 319 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Himself” 103×
  • “Themselves” 53×
  • “Own” 45×
  • “Yourselves” 42×
  • “Ourselves” 19×
  • “Itself” 13×
  • “Their” 7×
  • “Herself” 6×
  • “One another” 6×
  • “Each other” 5×
  • “Them” 5×
  • “His” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. himself, herself, itself, themselves

Word origin

Derived from αυτος (autós) (G846) — he.

(Including all the other cases); from a reflexive pronoun otherwise obsolete and the genitive (dative or accusative) of G846 ; him ( her it them also [in conjunction with the personal pronoun of the other persons] my thy our your ) -self (-selves) etc. : - alone her (own -self) (he) himself his (own) itself one (to) another our (thine) own (-selves) + that she had their (own own selves) (of) them (-selves) they thyself you your (own own conceits own selves -selves).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 16 distinct written forms G1438 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἑαυτὸν heautòn Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:26 56
ἑαυτοῦ heautoû Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Mark 6:4 49
ἑαυτοῖς heautoîs Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 9:3 49
ἑαυτοὺς heautoùs Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 19:12 49
ἑαυτῶν heautō̂n Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 8:22 40
ἑαυτῷ heautō̂ Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 13:21 28
ἑαυτούς heautoús Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Mark 10:26 14
ἑαυτόν heautón Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Luke 23:35 10
ἑαυτῆς heautē̂s Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 6:34 7
ἑαυτὴν heautḕn Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 3:24 4
ἑαυτάς heautás Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Mark 16:3 3
ἑαυτήν heautḗn Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Accusative, Singular, Feminine James 2:17 2
ἑαυτῇ heautē̂ Reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 9:21 2
ἑαυταῖς heautaîs Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 25:9 1
ἑαυτὰ heautà Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 John 5:21 1
ἑαυτὰς heautàs Reflexive pronoun, 2nd person, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Luke 23:28 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εαυτου appears 478 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 423 verses in 34 books.

478
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
423
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
34 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 34 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1438) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 423. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1438) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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