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ἔρχομαι

to come

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G2064 Strong's Greek
érchomai Transliteration
/er'-khom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 626 appearances

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About this entry

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“to come” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ερχομαι (érchomai). “cometh” is the historic King James Version rendering; modern versions use “came.” See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 590 verses across 24 books, one of the most common footprint. First canonically at Matthew 2:2, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 590-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
accompany
Modern gloss
to come
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 G2064 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 →

590
distinct verses
The word appears in 590 distinct verses.
24 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:2.
Revelation 22:20
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:20.
#33
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 33 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 590 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 423 · 72%
  • Acts 51 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 69 · 12%
  • General Epistles 15 · 3%
  • Revelation 32 · 5%

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 590 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 423 verses · 72%
  • Johannine 181 verses · 31%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 146 verses · 25%
  • Pauline corpus 69 verses · 12%
  • Revelation 32 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 2%
  • Hebrews 5 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: Came 122×, Come 119×, Cometh 65×
  • American Standard Version: Came 111×, Come 100×, Cometh 75×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Came 87×, Come 79×, Comes 42×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Come 101×, Came 77×, Having come 67×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2064 across 660 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 122×
  • “Come” 119×
  • “Cometh” 65×
  • “They came” 25×
  • “Is come” 22×
  • “Coming” 20×
  • “I come” 20×
  • “He came” 19×
  • “He cometh” 18×
  • “I came” 11×
  • “Shall come” 11×
  • “Was come” 10×

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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2064 across 655 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 111×
  • “Come” 100×
  • “Cometh” 75×
  • “They came” 27×
  • “Coming” 22×
  • “Is come” 22×
  • “He came” 19×
  • “I come” 19×
  • “He cometh” 16×
  • “I came” 14×
  • “They come” 12×
  • “Shall come” 11×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 88 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 G2064 across 619 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 87×
  • “Come” 79×
  • “Comes” 42×
  • “Went” 26×
  • “Coming” 22×
  • “Will come” 22×
  • “Is coming” 20×
  • “They came” 19×
  • “Has come” 14×
  • “Arrived” 12×
  • “Returned” 11×
  • “He comes” 10×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 96 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 7 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2064 across 682 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Come” 101×
  • “Came” 77×
  • “Having come” 67×
  • “Coming” 53×
  • “Comes” 50×
  • “Is coming” 26×
  • “He comes” 21×
  • “They came” 20×
  • “Has come” 14×
  • “He came” 13×
  • “Will come” 12×
  • “He went” 11×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 44 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 3 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. of persons
  2. metaph.
  3. to go, to follow one

Word origin

Origin: middle voice of a primary verb (used only in the present and imperfect tenses, the others being supplied by a kindred [middle voice] eleuthomai el-yoo'-thom-ahee, or [active] eltho el'-tho, which do not otherwise occur)

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 13:06,3

Middle voice of a primary verb (used only in the present and imperfect tenses the others being supplied by a kindred [middle voice] word ἐλεύθομαι eleuthomai or ἔλθω elthō which do not otherwise occur); to come or go (in a great variety of applications literally and figuratively): - accompany appear bring come enter fall out go grow X light X next pass resort be set.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 68 distinct written forms G2064 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἔρχεται érchetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 8:9 89
ἦλθεν ē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 9:1 88
ἦλθον ē̂lthon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 7:25 59
ἐλθὼν elthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 2:8 44
ἐλθεῖν eltheîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 13:32 40
ἔλθῃ élthē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 10:23 32
ἐρχόμενος erchómenos Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:11 25
ἐλθόντες elthóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 2:11 22
ἔρχονται érchontai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 7:15 19
ἔρχομαι érchomai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 13:7 18
ἐρχόμενον erchómenon Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 16:28 17
ἔρχου érchou Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 8:9 11
ἐλεύσονται eleúsontai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 9:15 10
ἔρχεσθαι érchesthai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive Matthew 11:14 9
ἤλθομεν ḗlthomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Matthew 2:2 9
ἐλήλυθεν elḗlythen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 9:13 8
ἐλήλυθα elḗlytha Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 5:32 7
ἦλθαν ē̂lthan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 6:29 7
ἐλεύσομαι eleúsomai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Romans 9:9 6
ἐληλύθει elēlýthei Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 6:17 6
ἐλθόντος elthóntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 8:28 6
ἔλθω élthō Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 4:21 6
ἤρχοντο ḗrchonto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 1:45 6
ἐλεύσεται eleúsetai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 12:9 5
ἐρχομένῳ erchoménō Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Mark 10:30 4
ἐλθοῦσα elthoûsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 15:25 4
ἐρχόμενοι erchómenoi Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 6:31 4
ἔλθωσιν élthōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Luke 16:28 4
ἐλθάτω elthátō Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 6:10 3
Ἐλθὼν Elthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 16:13 3
ἤρχετο ḗrcheto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 2:13 3
ἦλθες ē̂lthes Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 8:29 3
ἐλήλυθας elḗlythas Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 3:2 2
ἐληλυθότα elēlythóta Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 18:2 2
ἐλθούσης elthoúsēs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Romans 7:9 2
ἐλθόντων elthóntōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 17:14 2
ἐλθὸν elthòn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 12:44 2
ἐρχέσθω erchésthō Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular John 7:37 2
ἐρχομένη erchoménē Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 11:10 2
ἐρχομένου erchoménou Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 5:15 2
ἐρχόμενα erchómena Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter John 16:13 2
ἔρχεσθε érchesthe Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 14:17 2
ἔρχεταί érchetaí Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 21:5 2
ἔρχηται érchētai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 7:27 2
ἔρχομαί érchomaí Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Revelation 2:5 2
ἐλευσόμεθα eleusómetha Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural John 14:23 1
ἐληλυθυῖαν elēlythyîan Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 9:1 1
ἐληλυθότες elēlythótes Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 5:17 1
ἐληλύθεισαν elēlýtheisan Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 11:19 1
ἐλθέ elthé Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 14:29 1
ἐλθοῦσαι elthoûsai Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Mark 16:1 1
ἐλθόντας elthóntas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 5:7 1
ἐλθόντι elthónti Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:28 1
ἐλθὲ elthè Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular John 4:16 1
ἐρχομένης erchoménēs Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 1 Thessalonians 1:10 1
ἐρχομένους erchoménous Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 3:7 1
ἐρχομένων erchoménōn Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 3 John 1:3 1
ἐρχόμεθα erchómetha Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural John 21:3 1
ἔλθητε élthēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Mark 14:38 1
ἔλθῃς élthēs Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Luke 23:42 1

The 60 most common forms are shown; 8 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2064, 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 ερχομαι appears 805 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 762 verses in 34 books.

805
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
762
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
34 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 34 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2064) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 762. 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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