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εἰσέρχομαι

to enter

‘to enter’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1525 Strong's Greek
eisérchomai Transliteration
/ice-er'-khom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 195 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, εισερχομαι (eisérchomai) means “to enter.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 2:21. Spanning 185 verses in 10 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (25% of all occurrences). Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
arise
Modern gloss
to enter
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 G1525 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 →

185
distinct verses
The word appears in 185 distinct verses.
10 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:21
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:21.
Revelation 22:14
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:14.
#81
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 81 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 185 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 126 · 68%
  • Acts 33 · 18%
  • Pauline Epistles 4 · 2%
  • General Epistles 17 · 9%
  • Revelation 5 · 3%

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 185 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 126 verses · 68%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 80 verses · 43%
  • Johannine 19 verses · 10%
  • Hebrews 15 verses · 8%
  • Revelation 5 verses · 3%
  • Pauline corpus 4 verses · 2%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 1%

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: Enter 32×, Entered 28×, Went 9×
  • American Standard Version: Enter 37×, Entered 29×, He entered 16×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Enter 35×, Entered 19×, He entered 8×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Enter 52×, Entered 24×, Entering 15×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1525 across 214 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Enter” 32×
  • “Entered” 28×
  • “Went” 9×
  • “Ye enter” 9×
  • “He went” 7×
  • “Came in” 5×
  • “Enter in” 5×
  • “Go in” 5×
  • “Are entered” 4×
  • “Come in” 4×
  • “Go” 4×
  • “He entered” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 59 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 G1525 across 215 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Enter” 37×
  • “Entered” 29×
  • “He entered” 16×
  • “Ye enter” 7×
  • “In” 6×
  • “Come in” 5×
  • “Came in” 4×
  • “Enter in” 4×
  • “Entering” 4×
  • “When” 4×
  • “Come” 3×
  • “Entered in” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 55 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 G1525 across 189 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Enter” 35×
  • “Entered” 19×
  • “He entered” 8×
  • “Went” 8×
  • “You enter” 8×
  • “Enters” 6×
  • “He went” 5×
  • “Went in” 5×
  • “They entered” 4×
  • “Came” 3×
  • “Came in” 3×
  • “Come” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 49 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 5 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1525 across 219 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Enter” 52×
  • “Entered” 24×
  • “Entering” 15×
  • “Having entered” 13×
  • “He entered” 11×
  • “You enter” 6×
  • “He went” 5×
  • “Did” 3×
  • “Do” 3×
  • “Enters” 3×
  • “Had entered” 3×
  • “Have entered” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 35 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 2 senses 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. to go out or come in: to enter
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from εις (eis) (G1519) — into.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 13:16,3

From G1519 and G2064 ; to enter (literally or figuratively): - X arise come (in into) enter in (-to) go in (through).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 44 distinct written forms G1525 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
εἰσῆλθεν eisē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 2:21 40
εἰσελθεῖν eiseltheîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 12:29 36
εἰσελθὼν eiselthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:18 19
εἰσῆλθον eisē̂lthon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 25:10 11
εἰσέλθητε eisélthēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 5:20 10
εἰσέλθῃ eisélthē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 10:15 9
εἰσελθόντα eiselthónta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 17:25 5
εἰσελεύσονται eiseleúsontai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 10:23 5
εἰσέλθῃς eisélthēs Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 8:8 4
εἰσελθόντες eiselthóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 5:10 4
εἴσελθε eíselthe Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 6:6 4
Εἰσῆλθεν Eisē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 9:46 3
εἰσελεύσεται eiseleúsetai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 7:21 3
εἰσερχόμενος eiserchómenos Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 10:1 3
εἰσέλθωσιν eisélthōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural 1 Corinthians 14:23 2
εἰσήλθομεν eisḗlthomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Acts 11:12 2
εἰσελθοῦσα eiselthoûsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 6:25 2
εἰσελθοῦσαι eiselthoûsai Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Mark 16:5 2
εἰσελθόντος eiselthóntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:10 2
εἰσελθόντων eiselthóntōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Luke 22:10 2
εἰσερχομένους eiserchoménous Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 23:13 2
εἰσερχόμενοι eiserchómenoi Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 7:13 2
εἰσῆλθες eisē̂lthes Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 22:12 2
Εἰσελθόντος Eiselthóntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:5 1
Εἰσελθὼν Eiselthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 19:8 1
εἰσέλθατε eisélthate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 7:13 1
εἰσέλθωμεν eisélthōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Mark 5:12 1
εἰσέρχεσθε eisérchesthe Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 23:13 1
εἰσέρχεται eisérchetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 9:25 1
εἰσέρχησθε eisérchēsthe Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Luke 10:8 1
εἰσήλθατε eisḗlthate Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 11:52 1
εἰσελήλυθαν eiselḗlythan Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural James 5:4 1
εἰσελεύσεσθαι eiseleúsesthai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Infinitive Hebrews 3:18 1
εἰσελεύσομαι eiseleúsomai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Revelation 3:20 1
εἰσεληλύθατε eiselēlýthate Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 4:38 1
εἰσελθάτω eiselthátō Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 13:15 1
εἰσελθούσης eiselthoúsēs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Mark 6:22 1
εἰσελθόντι eiselthónti Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Luke 17:7 1
εἰσερχέσθωσαν eiserchésthōsan Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 21:21 1
εἰσερχομένην eiserchoménēn Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Hebrews 6:19 1
εἰσερχομένου eiserchoménou Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 17:12 1
εἰσερχόμεθα eiserchómetha Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Hebrews 4:3 1
εἰσερχόμενον eiserchómenon Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 15:11 1
εἰσῆλθόν eisē̂lthón Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 7:44 1


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εισερχομαι appears 593 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 553 verses in 35 books.

593
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
553
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
35 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 35 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1525) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 553. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

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