ἑαυτοῦ
himself
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Reflexive pronoun
- Refers the action back to the subject (“himself”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
131 distinct verses where G1438 appears in the Accusative case, across 23 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 6 verses
- Matthew 12:26 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
- Matthew 16:24 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Matthew 18:4 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matthew 19:12 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."
- Matthew 23:12 ἑαυτὸν ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
- Matthew 27:42 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
Mark 14 verses
- Mark 3:24 ἑαυτὴν refl.pron 3 acc sg fem If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
- Mark 3:25 ἑαυτὴν refl.pron 3 acc sg fem If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
- Mark 3:26 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.
- Mark 5:5 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
- Mark 8:34 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Mark 9:10 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
- Mark 10:26 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"
- Mark 11:31 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
- Mark 12:7 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
- Mark 12:33 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
- Mark 13:9 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
- Mark 14:4 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
- Mark 15:31 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.
- Mark 16:3 ἑαυτάς refl.pron 3 acc pl fem They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"
Luke 19 verses
- Luke 1:24 ἑαυτὴν refl.pron 3 acc sg fem After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
- Luke 7:30 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
- Luke 9:23 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
- Luke 9:25 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
- Luke 10:29 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
- Luke 11:17 ἑαυτὴν refl.pron 3 acc sg fem But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.
- Luke 11:18 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
- Luke 14:11 ἑαυτὸν ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
- Luke 15:17 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
- Luke 16:15 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
- Luke 17:14 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.
- Luke 18:14 ἑαυτὸν ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc refl.pron 3 acc sg masc I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
- Luke 20:5 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
- Luke 20:20 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
- Luke 22:17 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,
- Luke 22:23 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.
- Luke 23:2 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
- Luke 23:28 ἑαυτὰς refl.pron 2 acc pl fem But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
- Luke 23:35 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
John 11 verses
- John 5:18 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
- John 7:35 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
- John 8:22 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
- John 11:33 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
- John 11:55 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
- John 12:19 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
- John 13:4 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
- John 19:7 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
- John 19:12 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
- John 21:1 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
- John 21:7 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
Acts 12 verses
- Acts 1:3 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
- Acts 5:36 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Acts 8:9 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
- Acts 13:46 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Acts 15:29 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
- Acts 16:27 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
- Acts 19:31 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
- Acts 23:12 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
- Acts 23:14 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
- Acts 23:21 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
- Acts 25:4 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
- Acts 28:16 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
Romans 5 verses
- Romans 6:11 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:13 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- Romans 6:16 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
- Romans 12:19 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
- Romans 14:22 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
1 Corinthians 5 verses
- 1 Corinthians 3:18 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- 1 Corinthians 11:28 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
- 1 Corinthians 14:4 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 16:15 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister to the saints),
2 Corinthians 12 verses
- 2 Corinthians 3:1 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
- 2 Corinthians 4:2 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:5 ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc refl.pron 1 acc pl masc For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
- 2 Corinthians 5:12 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
- 2 Corinthians 6:4 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
- 2 Corinthians 7:1 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:11 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
- 2 Corinthians 8:5 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
- 2 Corinthians 10:12 ἑαυτούς ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc refl.pron 3 acc pl masc refl.pron 3 dat pl masc refl.pron 3 acc pl masc refl.pron 3 acc pl masc refl.pron 3 dat pl masc For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
- 2 Corinthians 10:14 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Gospel of Christ,
- 2 Corinthians 10:18 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc refl.pron 2 acc pl masc refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
Galatians 5 verses
- Galatians 1:4 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--
- Galatians 2:12 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
- Galatians 2:20 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Galatians 6:3 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Galatians 6:4 ἑαυτοῦ ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 gen sg masc refl.pron 3 acc sg masc But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
Ephesians 5 verses
- Ephesians 4:19 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
- Ephesians 5:2 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Ephesians 5:25 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
- Ephesians 5:28 ἑαυτῶν ἑαυτῶν ἑαυτοῦ ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 gen pl masc refl.pron 3 gen pl masc refl.pron 3 gen sg masc refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
- Ephesians 5:33 ἑαυτοῦ ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 gen sg masc refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Philippians 2 verses
Colossians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:9 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
1 Timothy 3 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:6 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
- 1 Timothy 2:9 ἑαυτάς refl.pron 3 acc pl fem In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
- 1 Timothy 6:10 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
2 Timothy 2 verses
- 2 Timothy 2:13 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc If we are faithless, He remains faithful. He can't deny himself.
- 2 Timothy 2:21 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.
Titus 1 verse
Hebrews 7 verses
- Hebrews 3:13 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- Hebrews 5:5 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."
- Hebrews 7:27 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
- Hebrews 9:14 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Hebrews 9:25 ἑαυτόν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
- Hebrews 10:34 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
- Hebrews 12:3 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
James 4 verses
- James 1:22 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
- James 1:24 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
- James 1:27 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- James 2:17 ἑαυτήν refl.pron 3 acc sg fem Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
1 Peter 3 verses
- 1 Peter 3:5 ἑαυτάς refl.pron 3 acc pl fem For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
- 1 Peter 4:8 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 4:10 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc According as each has received a gift, be ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the grace of God in its various forms.
1 John 3 verses
- 1 John 1:8 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 1 acc pl masc If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 3:3 ἑαυτὸν refl.pron 3 acc sg masc Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
- 1 John 5:21 ἑαυτὰ refl.pron 2 acc pl neut Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
2 John 1 verse
Jude 3 verses
- Jude 1:12 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
- Jude 1:20 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
- Jude 1:21 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 2 acc pl masc Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Revelation 5 verses
- Revelation 2:2 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
- Revelation 2:9 ἑαυτούς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
- Revelation 3:9 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
- Revelation 6:15 ἑαυτοὺς refl.pron 3 acc pl masc The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
- Revelation 19:7 ἑαυτήν refl.pron 3 acc sg fem Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready."
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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.
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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.
- #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 →
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- 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.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1438, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- αυθαδης authádēs G829 self-willed
- αυθαιρετος authaíretos G830 voluntary
- αυθεντεω authentéō G831 autocrat
- αυταρκης autárkēs G842 self-sufficient
- αυτοκατακριτος autokatákritos G843 self-condemned
- αυτοματος autómatos G844 of itself
- αυτοπτης autóptēs G845 eyewitness
- αυτου autoû G847 there
- αυτοχειρ autócheir G849 with own hands
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 1:29 ἑαυτοῦ
- Exodus 1:21 ἑαυτοῦ
- Leviticus 15:14 ἑαυτοῦ
- Numbers 1:52 ἑαυτοῦ
- Deuteronomy 1:13 ἑαυτοῦ
- Joshua 2:19 ἑαυτοῦ
- Judges 3:6 ἑαυτοῦ
- Ruth 1:4 ἑαυτοῦ
- 1 Samuel 2:14 ἑαυτοῦ
- 2 Samuel 2:7 ἑαυτοῦ
- 1 Kings 1:5 ἑαυτοῦ
- 2 Kings 3:26 ἑαυτοῦ
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.
- Genesis 1:29 ἑαυτοῦ God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 1:30 ἑαυτοῦ To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 3:7 ἑαυτοῦ Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 4:19 ἑαυτοῦ Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- Genesis 4:23 ἑαυτοῦ Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 6:2 ἑαυτοῦ that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:4 ἑαυτοῦ The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 8:9 ἑαυτοῦ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 11:4 ἑαυτοῦ They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 11:29 ἑαυτοῦ Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
- Genesis 13:11 ἑαυτοῦ So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 16:3 ἑαυτοῦ Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Genesis 18:12 ἑαυτοῦ Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
- Genesis 18:13 ἑαυτοῦ Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
- Genesis 19:10 ἑαυτοῦ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 22:3 ἑαυτοῦ Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:8 ἑαυτοῦ Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
- Genesis 24:10 ἑαυτοῦ The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
- Genesis 24:44 ἑαυτοῦ She will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels." Let the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'
- Genesis 24:46 ἑαυτοῦ She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
- Genesis 25:20 ἑαυτοῦ Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Genesis 28:6 ἑαυτοῦ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 30:37 ἑαυτοῦ Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- Genesis 30:40 ἑαυτοῦ Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
- Genesis 31:23 ἑαυτοῦ He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 32:2 ἑαυτοῦ When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 33:17 ἑαυτοῦ Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 36:2 ἑαυτοῦ Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
- Genesis 38:14 ἑαυτοῦ She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:19 ἑαυτοῦ She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
- Genesis 39:6 ἑαυτοῦ He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
- Genesis 39:16 ἑαυτοῦ She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
- Genesis 41:11 ἑαυτοῦ We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 43:22 ἑαυτοῦ We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
- Genesis 43:32 ἑαυτοῦ They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
- Genesis 47:23 ἑαυτοῦ Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
- Genesis 49:16 ἑαυτοῦ "Dan will judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 1:21 ἑαυτοῦ It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
- Exodus 2:11 ἑαυτοῦ It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
- Exodus 4:14 ἑαυτοῦ The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
- Exodus 5:7 ἑαυτοῦ "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:11 ἑαυτοῦ Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
- Exodus 5:19 ἑαυτοῦ The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
- Exodus 6:20 ἑαυτοῦ Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
- Exodus 12:4 ἑαυτοῦ and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:21 ἑαυτοῦ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
- Exodus 12:39 ἑαυτοῦ They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
- Exodus 13:19 ἑαυτοῦ Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."
- Exodus 14:6 ἑαυτοῦ He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
- Exodus 16:18 ἑαυτοῦ When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
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.
