ἔρχομαι
to come
‘to come’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Pluperfect
- A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2064 appears in the Book of 1 Timothy — 4 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.
1 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 1:15 ἦλθεν aor act ind 3sg The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- 1 Timothy 2:4 ἐλθεῖν aor act inf who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
- 1 Timothy 3:14 ἐλθεῖν aor act inf These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
- 1 Timothy 4:13 ἔρχομαι pres mid/pass.dep ind 1sg Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
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.
“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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- of persons
- metaph.
- 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)
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.
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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 10:19 ἔρχομαι
- Exodus 2:8 ἔρχομαι
- Leviticus 13:16 ἔρχομαι
- Numbers 11:26 ἔρχομαι
- Deuteronomy 1:19 ἔρχομαι
- Joshua 2:22 ἔρχομαι
- Judges 2:6 ἔρχομαι
- Ruth 1:2 ἔρχομαι
- 1 Samuel 2:14 ἔρχομαι
- 2 Samuel 1:2 ἔρχομαι
- 1 Kings 1:22 ἔρχομαι
- 2 Kings 1:9 ἔρχομαι
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.
- Genesis 10:19 ἔρχομαι The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
- Genesis 10:30 ἔρχομαι Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- Genesis 11:31 ἔρχομαι 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 12:5 ἔρχομαι Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
- Genesis 13:3 ἔρχομαι He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
- Genesis 13:10 ἔρχομαι Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
- Genesis 13:18 ἔρχομαι 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 14:5 ἔρχομαι In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- Genesis 14:7 ἔρχομαι They returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
- Genesis 16:8 ἔρχομαι 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 18:21 ἔρχομαι I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
- Genesis 18:22 ἔρχομαι The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
- Genesis 19:1 ἔρχομαι The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
- Genesis 19:9 ἔρχομαι 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 22:3 ἔρχομαι Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:9 ἔρχομαι 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 23:2 ἔρχομαι Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 24:30 ἔρχομαι It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:41 ἔρχομαι Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
- Genesis 24:42 ἔρχομαι I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
- Genesis 24:63 ἔρχομαι Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
- Genesis 25:18 ἔρχομαι They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
- Genesis 25:29 ἔρχομαι Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
- Genesis 26:27 ἔρχομαι Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
- Genesis 27:30 ἔρχομαι It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 27:33 ἔρχομαι Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Genesis 27:35 ἔρχομαι He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
- Genesis 29:6 ἔρχομαι He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
- Genesis 29:9 ἔρχομαι While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
- Genesis 30:38 ἔρχομαι He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
- Genesis 31:24 ἔρχομαι God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 32:7 ἔρχομαι Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
- Genesis 32:9 ἔρχομαι Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'
- Genesis 32:12 ἔρχομαι You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
- Genesis 33:1 ἔρχομαι Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 33:14 ἔρχομαι Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 33:18 ἔρχομαι Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
- Genesis 34:5 ἔρχομαι Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
- Genesis 34:7 ἔρχομαι The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Genesis 34:20 ἔρχομαι Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 35:6 ἔρχομαι So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
- Genesis 35:16 ἔρχομαι They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
- Genesis 35:27 ἔρχομαι Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
- Genesis 37:10 ἔρχομαι He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
- Genesis 37:14 ἔρχομαι He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Genesis 37:19 ἔρχομαι They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
- Genesis 37:23 ἔρχομαι It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
- Genesis 37:35 ἔρχομαι All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
- Genesis 39:16 ἔρχομαι She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
- Genesis 41:14 ἔρχομαι Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2064) 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.
