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 Genitive case in the Book of 2 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.
2 Thessalonians
- 2 Thessalonians 1:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
- 2 Thessalonians 1:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
- 2 Thessalonians 1:12 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:1 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you
- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:14 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl to which he called you through our Gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
- 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
- 2 Thessalonians 3:6 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 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.
