ἐγώ
I
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.
29 verses where G1473 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Revelation. 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 1:10 μου pron 1 gen sg I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
- Revelation 1:12 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
- Revelation 1:20 μου pron 1 gen sg the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.
- Revelation 2:3 μου pron 1 gen sg You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.
- Revelation 2:13 μου μου μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
- Revelation 2:16 μου pron 1 gen sg Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
- Revelation 2:26 μου pron 1 gen sg He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
- Revelation 2:27 μου pron 1 gen sg He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
- Revelation 3:2 μου pron 1 gen sg Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
- Revelation 3:4 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
- Revelation 3:5 μου pron 1 gen sg He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Revelation 3:8 μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.
- Revelation 3:10 μου pron 1 gen sg Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
- Revelation 3:12 μου μου μου μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Revelation 3:16 μου pron 1 gen sg So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
- Revelation 3:18 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
- Revelation 3:20 μου ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
- Revelation 3:21 ἐμοῦ μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Revelation 4:1 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."
- Revelation 7:14 μου μοι pron 1 gen sg pron 1 dat sg I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
- Revelation 10:8 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
- Revelation 10:10 μου μου pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
- Revelation 11:3 μου pron 1 gen sg I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
- Revelation 17:1 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
- Revelation 18:4 μου pron 1 gen sg I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,
- Revelation 21:9 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."
- Revelation 21:15 ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
- Revelation 22:12 μου ἐμοῦ pron 1 gen sg pron 1 gen sg "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
- Revelation 22:16 ἐγὼ μου ἐγώ pron 1 nom sg pron 1 gen sg pron 1 nom sg I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star."
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.
