ἐγώ
I
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Personal pronoun
- Stands in for a person already named (“I,” “you,” “he”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
44 verses where G1473 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Acts. 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.
Acts
- Acts 1:4 μου pron 1 gen sg Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
- Acts 1:8 μου pron 1 gen sg But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
- Acts 2:14 μου pron 1 gen sg But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
- Acts 2:17 μου pron 1 gen sg 'It will be in the last days, says God, That I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
- Acts 2:18 μου μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
- Acts 2:25 μου μου μού pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
- Acts 2:26 μου μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
- Acts 2:27 μου pron 1 gen sg Because you will not leave my soul in Hades, Neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
- Acts 2:34 μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,
- Acts 7:34 μου pron 1 gen sg I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'
- Acts 7:49 μοι μου μοι μου pron 1 dat sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 dat sg pron 1 gen sg 'heaven is my throne, And the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'Or what is the place of my rest?
- Acts 7:50 μου pron 1 gen sg Didn't my hand make all these things?'
- Acts 7:59 μου pron 1 gen sg They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!"
- Acts 8:24 ἐμοῦ ἐμὲ pron 1 gen sg pron 1 acc sg Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me."
- Acts 9:15 μοι μου pron 1 dat sg pron 1 gen sg But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
- Acts 9:16 ἐγὼ μου pron 1 nom sg pron 1 gen sg For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."
- Acts 10:30 μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
- Acts 11:5 ἐγὼ ἐμοῦ pron 1 nom sg pron 1 gen sg "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
- Acts 11:8 μου pron 1 gen sg But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
- Acts 13:22 μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
- Acts 13:33 μου ἐγὼ pron 1 gen sg pron 1 nom sg that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'
- Acts 15:7 μου pron 1 gen sg When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe.
- Acts 15:13 μου pron 1 gen sg After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 15:17 μου pron 1 gen sg That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
- Acts 16:15 με μου pron 1 acc sg pron 1 gen sg When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
- Acts 20:24 μου pron 1 gen sg But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.
- Acts 20:25 ἐγὼ μου pron 1 nom sg pron 1 gen sg Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
- Acts 20:29 ἐγὼ μου pron 1 nom sg pron 1 gen sg For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- Acts 20:34 μου ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.
- Acts 21:13 μου ἐγὼ pron 1 gen sg pron 1 nom sg Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
- Acts 22:1 μου pron 1 gen sg "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
- Acts 22:17 μοι μου με pron 1 dat sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 acc sg "It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
- Acts 22:18 μοι ἐμοῦ pron 1 dat sg pron 1 gen sg and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'
- Acts 23:11 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."
- Acts 24:13 μου pron 1 gen sg Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
- Acts 24:17 μου pron 1 gen sg Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
- Acts 24:20 μου pron 1 gen sg Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
- Acts 25:9 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?"
- Acts 25:11 μου με pron 1 gen sg pron 1 acc sg For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
- Acts 25:15 μου pron 1 gen sg about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
- Acts 26:3 μου pron 1 gen sg especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
- Acts 26:4 μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
- Acts 26:29 μου pron 1 gen sg Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."
- Acts 28:19 μου pron 1 gen sg But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- I, me, my
Word origin
Origin: a primary pronoun of the first person I (only expressed when emphatic)
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.
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
- εμος emós G1699 my
- εμου emoû G1700 me
- ημας hēmâs G2248 us
- ημεις hēmeîs G2249 we
- ημιν hēmîn G2254 us
- ημων hēmōn G2257 our
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
- Genesis 2:23 ἐγώ
- Exodus 1:9 ἐγώ
- Leviticus 8:31 ἐγώ
- Numbers 3:9 ἐγώ
- Deuteronomy 1:6 ἐγώ
- Joshua 1:2 ἐγώ
- Judges 1:1 ἐγώ
- Ruth 1:8 ἐγώ
- 1 Samuel 1:8 ἐγώ
- 2 Samuel 1:3 ἐγώ
- 1 Kings 1:2 ἐγώ
- 2 Kings 1:2 ἐγώ
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.
- Genesis 2:23 ἐγώ The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
- Genesis 3:12 ἐγώ The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:13 ἐγώ Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:22 ἐγώ Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 4:9 ἐγώ Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:10 ἐγώ Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 4:13 ἐγώ Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- Genesis 4:14 ἐγώ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
- Genesis 4:23 ἐγώ 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 4:25 ἐγώ Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 5:29 ἐγώ and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 6:3 ἐγώ Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 6:13 ἐγώ God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 6:17 ἐγώ I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 6:18 ἐγώ But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 7:1 ἐγώ Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:4 ἐγώ In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 9:9 ἐγώ "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- Genesis 9:11 ἐγώ I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
- Genesis 9:12 ἐγώ God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:13 ἐγώ I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:14 ἐγώ It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
- Genesis 9:15 ἐγώ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:16 ἐγώ The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 9:17 ἐγώ God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 12:11 ἐγώ It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
- Genesis 12:12 ἐγώ It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
- Genesis 12:13 ἐγώ Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
- Genesis 12:18 ἐγώ Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- Genesis 12:19 ἐγώ Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 13:8 ἐγώ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Genesis 13:9 ἐγώ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
- Genesis 14:21 ἐγώ The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
- Genesis 14:22 ἐγώ Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Genesis 14:23 ἐγώ that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
- Genesis 14:24 ἐγώ Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."
- Genesis 15:1 ἐγώ After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
- Genesis 15:2 ἐγώ Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
- Genesis 15:3 ἐγώ Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
- Genesis 15:7 ἐγώ He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
- Genesis 15:9 ἐγώ He said to him, "Take me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."
- Genesis 15:14 ἐγώ I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
- Genesis 16:2 ἐγώ Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 16:5 ἐγώ Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
- Genesis 16:8 ἐγώ He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
- Genesis 16:13 ἐγώ She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
- Genesis 17:1 ἐγώ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Genesis 17:2 ἐγώ I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
- Genesis 17:4 ἐγώ "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
- Genesis 17:7 ἐγώ I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
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.
