ἐκεῖ
there
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G1563 appears in the Book of James — 3 distinct verses. 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.
James
- James 2:3 ἐκεῖ adv and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"
- James 3:16 ἐκεῖ adv For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- James 4:13 ἐκεῖ adv Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- there, in or to that place
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
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
- Genesis 2:8 ἐκεῖ
- Exodus 8:18 ἐκεῖ
- Leviticus 8:31 ἐκεῖ
- Numbers 9:17 ἐκεῖ
- Deuteronomy 1:28 ἐκεῖ
- Joshua 2:1 ἐκεῖ
- Judges 1:7 ἐκεῖ
- Ruth 1:2 ἐκεῖ
- 1 Samuel 1:3 ἐκεῖ
- 2 Samuel 1:21 ἐκεῖ
- 1 Kings 1:14 ἐκεῖ
- 2 Kings 1:4 ἐκεῖ
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.
- Genesis 2:8 ἐκεῖ Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:11 ἐκεῖ The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 ἐκεῖ and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 11:2 ἐκεῖ It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there.
- Genesis 11:7 ἐκεῖ Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 11:9 ἐκεῖ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 11:31 ἐκεῖ Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.
- Genesis 12:7 ἐκεῖ Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 12:8 ἐκεῖ He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 12:10 ἐκεῖ There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 13:4 ἐκεῖ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 13:18 ἐκεῖ Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
- Genesis 14:10 ἐκεῖ Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
- Genesis 18:28 ἐκεῖ What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
- Genesis 18:29 ἐκεῖ He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
- Genesis 18:30 ἐκεῖ He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
- Genesis 18:31 ἐκεῖ He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
- Genesis 18:32 ἐκεῖ He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 19:9 ἐκεῖ They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:20 ἐκεῖ See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
- Genesis 19:22 ἐκεῖ Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- Genesis 20:13 ἐκεῖ It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
- Genesis 21:31 ἐκεῖ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
- Genesis 21:33 ἐκεῖ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
- Genesis 22:2 ἐκεῖ He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
- Genesis 22:9 ἐκεῖ They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
- Genesis 23:6 ἐκεῖ "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:13 ἐκεῖ He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
- Genesis 24:6 ἐκεῖ Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
- Genesis 24:8 ἐκεῖ If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
- Genesis 25:10 ἐκεῖ the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
- Genesis 26:8 ἐκεῖ It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
- Genesis 26:17 ἐκεῖ Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
- Genesis 26:19 ἐκεῖ Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Genesis 26:25 ἐκεῖ He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
- Genesis 28:11 ἐκεῖ He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
- Genesis 28:18 ἐκεῖ Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
- Genesis 29:2 ἐκεῖ He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
- Genesis 29:3 ἐκεῖ There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
- Genesis 31:13 ἐκεῖ I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
- Genesis 31:46 ἐκεῖ Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
- Genesis 32:14 ἐκεῖ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
- Genesis 32:30 ἐκεῖ Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
- Genesis 33:17 ἐκεῖ Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 33:19 ἐκεῖ He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
- Genesis 33:20 ἐκεῖ He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
- Genesis 35:1 ἐκεῖ God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
- Genesis 35:3 ἐκεῖ Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
- Genesis 35:7 ἐκεῖ He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- Genesis 35:15 ἐκεῖ Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
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.
