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ἔχω

to have

‘to have’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G2192 Strong's Greek
échō Transliteration
/ekh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 706 appearances

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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 εχω centers on the idea of “to have.” Its English rendering has broadened — “have” classically, “has” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 624 verses in 27 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:18. Lexicons map it across 4 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
hold
Modern gloss
to have
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 G2192 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 →

624
distinct verses
The word appears in 624 distinct verses.
27 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:18
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:18.
Revelation 22:5
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:5.
#25
by frequency
Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 25 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 624 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 266 · 43%
  • Acts 43 · 7%
  • Pauline Epistles 143 · 23%
  • General Epistles 81 · 13%
  • Revelation 91 · 15%

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 624 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 266 verses · 43%
  • Johannine 193 verses · 31%
  • Pauline corpus 143 verses · 23%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 108 verses · 17%
  • Revelation 91 verses · 15%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 45 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 36 verses · 6%

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: Have 90×, Having 82×, Hath 80×
  • American Standard Version: Having 92×, Hath 87×, Have 80×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Has 68×, Have 67×, With 35×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having 208×, Have 145×, Has 57×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2192 across 701 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Have” 90×
  • “Having” 82×
  • “Hath” 80×
  • “Had” 65×
  • “I have” 36×
  • “Ye have” 35×
  • “We have” 33×
  • “He that hath” 21×
  • “He hath” 19×
  • “Thou hast” 17×
  • “They had” 15×
  • “He had” 12×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 78 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 23 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2192 across 700 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having” 92×
  • “Hath” 87×
  • “Have” 80×
  • “Had” 51×
  • “Ye have” 34×
  • “We have” 30×
  • “I have” 29×
  • “He that hath” 20×
  • “He hath” 19×
  • “Thou hast” 16×
  • “They had” 12×
  • “They have” 12×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 90 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 G2192 across 624 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Has” 68×
  • “Have” 67×
  • “With” 35×
  • “Had” 31×
  • “You have” 29×
  • “I have” 26×
  • “We have” 23×
  • “He has” 19×
  • “Having” 15×
  • “They had” 10×
  • “He had” 7×
  • “Are” 6×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 157 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 46 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2192 across 824 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having” 208×
  • “Have” 145×
  • “Has” 57×
  • “You have” 40×
  • “I have” 30×
  • “We have” 28×
  • “He has” 25×
  • “Had” 24×
  • “You do” 17×
  • “Does” 15×
  • “One having” 15×
  • “Do” 13×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 56 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 4 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 have (hold) in the hand…
  2. to have i.e. own, possess
  3. to hold one's self or find one's self so and so, to be in such or such a condition
  4. to hold one's self to a thing, to lay hold of a thing, to adhere or cling to

Word origin

Origin: including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o, used in certain tenses only), a primary verb

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 15:36,3

A primary verb (including an alternate form σχέω scheō skheh'-o used in certain tenses only); to hold (used in very various applications literally or figuratively direct or remote; such as possession ability contiguity relation or condition ): - be (able X hold possessed with) accompany + begin to amend can (+ -not) X conceive count diseased do + eat + enjoy + fear following have hold keep + lack + go to law lie + must needs + of necessity + need next + recover + reign + rest return X sick take for + tremble + uncircumcised use.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 61 distinct written forms G2192 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἔχει échei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 5:23 102
ἔχων échōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 7:29 85
ἔχετε échete Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 5:46 49
ἔχω échō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 3:14 48
ἔχοντες échontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 9:12 43
ἔχομεν échomen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Matthew 3:9 40
ἔχουσιν échousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 8:20 32
ἔχειν échein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Matthew 13:5 30
ἔχεις écheis Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 25:25 29
ἔχοντα échonta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 18:8 28
εἶχεν eîchen Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 3:4 23
εἶχον eîchon Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 14:5 18
ἔχοντας échontas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 4:24 16
ἔχουσα échousa Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 1:18 15
ἔχητε échēte Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 17:20 11
ἔχῃ échē Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:18 11
ἔχοντι échonti Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 25:28 10
ἐχόντων echóntōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Mark 8:1 9
ἔχουσαν échousan Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 11:13 6
ἔχωμεν échōmen Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Romans 5:1 6
ἕξει héxei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 1:23 6
ἔχοντος échontos Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 18:25 5
ἔσχον éschon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 22:28 5
σχῶ schō̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular Matthew 19:16 5
ἔσχεν éschen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 2:25 5
ἔχον échon Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Acts 1:12 4
ἔχε éche Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 14:18 4
ἔχωσιν échōsin Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural John 10:10 4
ἕξεις héxeis Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 19:21 4
εἴχετε eíchete Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 9:41 3
ἐχέτω echétō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 7:2 3
ἐχομένῃ echoménē Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine Luke 13:33 3
ἐχούσαις echoúsais Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 24:19 3
ἔχουσαι échousai Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 1 Timothy 5:12 3
Ἔχοντες Échontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 Corinthians 3:12 3
εἴχοσαν eíchosan Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 15:22 2
εἶχαν eîchan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 8:7 2
σχῶμεν schō̂men Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Matthew 21:38 2
ἐσχήκαμεν eschḗkamen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Romans 5:2 2
ἐχούσης echoúsēs Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Galatians 4:27 2
ἔχοι échoi Verb, Present, Active, Optative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 17:11 2
ἔχουσι échousi Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 16:29 2
ἕξουσιν héxousin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 16:18 2
Ἔχομεν Échomen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 2 Corinthians 4:7 2
Εἶχε Eîche Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 9:1 1
εἴχομεν eíchomen Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Hebrews 12:9 1
εἶχέν eîchén Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 13:6 1
σχῆτε schē̂te Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 2 Corinthians 1:15 1
ἐσχηκότα eschēkóta Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Mark 5:15 1
ἐχομένας echoménas Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Mark 1:38 1
ἐχούσῃ echoúsē Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 Thessalonians 5:3 1
ἐχόμενα echómena Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Hebrews 6:9 1
ἔσχες ésches Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 4:18 1
ἔσχηκα éschēka Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 2 Corinthians 2:13 1
ἔσχηκεν éschēken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 Corinthians 7:5 1
ἔσχομεν éschomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 Thessalonians 1:9 1
ἔχετέ écheté Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 24:41 1
ἔχοιεν échoien Verb, Present, Active, Optative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 24:19 1
ἔχοντά échontá Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 23:18 1
ἔχωσι échōsi Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural John 8:6 1

The 60 most common forms are shown; 1 rarer form follow in the full concordance.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2192, 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 → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εχω appears 266 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 252 verses in 30 books.

266
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
252
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
30 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 30 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2192) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 252. 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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