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ἐγώ

I

G1473 Strong's Greek
egṓ Transliteration
/eg-o'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1,719 appearances

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About this entry

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εγω — transliterated egṓ — is a Greek name carrying the sense “I.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:6. It appears 1,171 verses across 25 books of the Greek New Testament, among its most common vocabulary. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
I
Modern gloss
I
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 G1473 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 →

1,171
distinct verses
The word appears in 1,171 distinct verses.
25 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 25 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:6.
Revelation 22:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:18.
#10
by frequency
Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 10 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 1,171 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 653 · 56%
  • Acts 132 · 11%
  • Pauline Epistles 289 · 25%
  • General Epistles 42 · 4%
  • Revelation 55 · 5%

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 1,171 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 653 verses · 56%
  • Johannine 330 verses · 28%
  • Pauline corpus 289 verses · 25%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 275 verses · 23%
  • Revelation 55 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 22 verses · 2%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 20 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: I 356×, I am 2×, Is it i 2×
  • American Standard Version: I 337×, In 6×, It 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Me 709×, My 492×, I 389×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Me 811×, My 511×, Us 394×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1473 across 370 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “I” 356×
  • “I am” 2×
  • “Is it i” 2×
  • “Me” 2×
  • “My” 2×

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

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1473 across 374 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “I” 337×
  • “In” 6×
  • “It” 3×
  • “My” 3×
  • “Is” 2×
  • “Whereunto i” 2×
  • “Will i” 2×

Plus 19 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 G1473 across 2,450 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Me” 709×
  • “My” 492×
  • “I” 389×
  • “Us” 336×
  • “Our” 292×
  • “We” 158×
  • “Mine” 11×
  • “I am” 6×
  • “Ours” 5×
  • “Behalf” 4×
  • “Than i” 3×
  • “Will i” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 38 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 113 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1473 across 2,585 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Me” 811×
  • “My” 511×
  • “Us” 394×
  • “I” 343×
  • “Our” 315×
  • “We” 133×
  • “Myself” 15×
  • “I am” 13×
  • “Ourselves” 10×
  • “Mine” 9×
  • “Am” 6×
  • “Are” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 15 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. I, me, my

Word origin

Origin: a primary pronoun of the first person I (only expressed when emphatic)

TDNT: 07:43,2

A primary pronoun of the first person I (only expressed when emphatic): - I me. For the other cases and the plural see G1691 G1698 G1700 G2248 G2249 G2254 G2257 etc.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 17 distinct written forms G1473 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
μου mou Personal pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Singular Matthew 2:6 555
με me Personal pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Singular Matthew 3:14 278
ἐγὼ egṑ Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Singular Matthew 3:11 273
μοι moi Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Singular Matthew 2:8 219
ἐμοῦ emoû Personal pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Singular Matthew 5:11 115
ἐμοὶ emoì Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Singular Matthew 10:32 74
ἐγώ egṓ Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Singular Matthew 14:27 69
ἐμὲ emè Personal pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Singular Matthew 10:37 68
ἐμέ emé Personal pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Singular Matthew 18:6 27
ἐμοί emoí Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Singular Matthew 11:6 22
μού moú Personal pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Singular Matthew 3:11 9
μοί moí Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Singular Luke 9:38 4
Ἐγὼ Egṑ Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Singular 2 Corinthians 1:23 2
μέ mé Personal pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Singular John 19:11 1
Ἐγώ Egṓ Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Singular John 15:1 1
Ἐμοὶ Emoì Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Singular Philippians 1:21 1
ἡμῖν hēmîn Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Plural John 8:5 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1473, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εγω appears 10,239 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5,710 verses in 38 books.

10,239
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
5,710
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
38 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1473) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 5,710. 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 (G1473) 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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