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.
50 verses where G2249 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of 2 Corinthians. 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.
2 Corinthians
- 2 Corinthians 1:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- 2 Corinthians 1:4 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:5 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8 ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
- 2 Corinthians 1:11 ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
- 2 Corinthians 1:12 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
- 2 Corinthians 1:14 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
- 2 Corinthians 1:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
- 2 Corinthians 1:19 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."
- 2 Corinthians 1:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.
- 2 Corinthians 1:22 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- 2 Corinthians 3:2 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 3:5 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
- 2 Corinthians 4:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
- 2 Corinthians 4:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- 2 Corinthians 4:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- 2 Corinthians 5:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
- 2 Corinthians 5:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 ἡμῶν ἡμεῖς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 nom pl For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 6:11 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
- 2 Corinthians 7:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
- 2 Corinthians 7:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
- 2 Corinthians 7:5 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
- 2 Corinthians 7:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
- 2 Corinthians 7:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:13 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
- 2 Corinthians 7:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
- 2 Corinthians 8:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- 2 Corinthians 8:19 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
- 2 Corinthians 8:20 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
- 2 Corinthians 8:22 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
- 2 Corinthians 8:23 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 8:24 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
- 2 Corinthians 9:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
- 2 Corinthians 9:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
- 2 Corinthians 10:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
- 2 Corinthians 10:8 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
- 2 Corinthians 10:15 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
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.
