ἡμεῖς
we
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
- Personal pronoun
- Stands in for a person already named (“I,” “you,” “he”).
Case
- 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.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
26 verses where G2249 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of 1 Thessalonians. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 Thessalonians
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:5 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl and that our Gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
- 1 Thessalonians 2:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,
- 1 Thessalonians 2:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Gospel of God in much conflict.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:19 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
- 1 Thessalonians 2:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For you are our glory and our joy.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:6 ἡμᾶς ἡμῖν ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς ἡμεῖς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl pron 1 nom pl But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:11 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:25 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Brothers, pray for us.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:28 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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.
ημεις (hēmeîs) is a Greek word most often rendered “we.” It first appears in Matthew 1:23. The Greek New Testament uses it across 691 verses — among the most common. Sharing its root, it stands alongside εγω, εμος and εμου. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2249 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 →
- 691
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 691 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #23
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 23 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 691 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 109 verses 16%
- 2 Corinthians 81 verses 12%
- Luke 54 verses 8%
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 691 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 318 verses · 46%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 163 verses · 24%
- Gospels 157 verses · 23%
- Johannine 99 verses · 14%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 68 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 25 verses · 4%
- Revelation 14 verses · 2%
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: We 118×, Shall we 2×, Us 2×
- American Standard Version: We 117×, Us 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2249 across 126 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2249 across 129 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 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.
- us, we etc.
Word origin
Derived from εγω (egṓ) (G1473) — I.
Nomitive plural of G1473 ; we (only used when emphatic): - us we (ourselves).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2249 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἡμῶν hēmō̂n | Personal pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Plural | Matthew 1:23 | 401 |
| ἡμῖν hēmîn | Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Plural | Matthew 3:15 | 168 |
| ἡμᾶς hēmâs | Personal pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Plural | Matthew 6:13 | 167 |
| ἡμεῖς hēmeîs | Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Plural | Matthew 6:12 | 122 |
| Ἡμεῖς Hēmeîs | Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Plural | Acts 20:13 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2249, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
