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.
16 verses where G2249 appears in the Nominative 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 1:6 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 3:18 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- 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 4:13 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke." We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
- 2 Corinthians 5:16 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
- 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 6:16 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
- 2 Corinthians 9:4 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
- 2 Corinthians 10:7 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.
- 2 Corinthians 10:13 ἡμεῖς ἡμῖν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 dat pl But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
- 2 Corinthians 11:12 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
- 2 Corinthians 11:21 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
- 2 Corinthians 13:4 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
- 2 Corinthians 13:6 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified.
- 2 Corinthians 13:7 ἡμεῖς ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl pron 1 nom pl Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
- 2 Corinthians 13:9 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
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.
