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ἐκεῖ

there

G1563 Strong's Greek
ekeî Transliteration
/ek-i'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 94 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb εκει centers on the idea of “there.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:13. The Greek New Testament uses it across 93 verses — moderately common. Matthew dominates its distribution — 29 of 93 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside εκειθεν, εκεινος and εκεισε. Dig into 93-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
there
Modern gloss
there
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1563 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 →

93
distinct verses
The word appears in 93 distinct verses.
10 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:13
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:13.
Revelation 21:25
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:25.
#181
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 181 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 93 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 76 · 82%
  • Acts 6 · 6%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 3%
  • General Epistles 4 · 4%
  • Revelation 4 · 4%

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 93 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 76 verses · 82%
  • Johannine 26 verses · 28%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 22 verses · 24%
  • Revelation 4 verses · 4%
  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 3%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 3%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 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: There 82×, Thither 6×, Is there 2×
  • American Standard Version: There 79×, Thither 5×, Is 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: There 69×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: There 89×, Where 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1563 across 97 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “There” 82×
  • “Thither” 6×
  • “Is there” 2×

Plus 7 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 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1563 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “There” 79×
  • “Thither” 5×
  • “Is” 2×

Plus 10 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 G1563 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “There” 69×

Plus 6 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 19 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1563 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “There” 89×
  • “Where” 6×

Plus 1 rendering that appears 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. there, in or to that place

Word origin

Origin: of uncertain affinity

Part of speech: Adverb

Of uncertain affinity; there ; by extension thither : - there thither (-ward) (to) yonder (place).

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


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1563, 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

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εκει appears 682 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 603 verses in 31 books.

682
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
603
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
31 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1563) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 603. 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 (G1563) 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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