ἡμεῖς
we
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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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.
Every verse where G2249 appears in the Book of Acts — 109 distinct verses. 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.
Acts
- Acts 1:17 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
- Acts 1:21 ἡμῖν ἡμᾶς pron 1 dat pl pron 1 acc pl Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
- Acts 1:22 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."
- Acts 2:8 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
- Acts 2:29 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 2:32 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- Acts 2:39 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
- Acts 3:4 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at us."
- Acts 3:12 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
- Acts 3:13 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
- Acts 3:15 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Acts 3:22 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
- Acts 3:25 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'
- Acts 4:9 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
- Acts 4:12 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!"
- Acts 4:20 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
- Acts 4:25 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Acts 5:28 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
- Acts 5:30 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 5:32 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
- Acts 6:2 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
- Acts 6:4 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."
- Acts 6:14 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."
- Acts 7:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Acts 7:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
- Acts 7:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
- Acts 7:15 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
- Acts 7:19 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.
- Acts 7:27 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
- Acts 7:38 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
- Acts 7:39 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
- Acts 7:40 ἡμῖν ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
- Acts 7:44 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
- Acts 7:45 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
- Acts 9:38 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.
- Acts 10:33 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God."
- Acts 10:39 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 10:41 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
- Acts 10:42 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl He charged us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
- Acts 10:47 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
- Acts 11:13 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is Peter,
- Acts 11:15 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
- Acts 11:17 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"
- Acts 13:17 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
- Acts 13:26 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
- Acts 13:32 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,
- Acts 13:47 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, That you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
- Acts 14:11 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
- Acts 14:15 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 14:22 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
- Acts 15:8 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
- Acts 15:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Acts 15:10 ἡμῶν ἡμεῖς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 nom pl Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Acts 15:24 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;
- Acts 15:25 ἡμῖν ἡμῶν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
- Acts 15:26 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Acts 15:28 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
- Acts 16:9 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."
- Acts 16:10 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
- Acts 16:15 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
- Acts 16:16 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
- Acts 16:17 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!"
- Acts 16:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
- Acts 16:21 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
- Acts 16:37 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
- Acts 17:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
- Acts 17:27 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
- Acts 19:25 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
- Acts 19:27 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."
- Acts 19:37 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
- Acts 20:5 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
- Acts 20:6 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
- Acts 20:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
- Acts 20:13 Ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
- Acts 20:14 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
- Acts 20:21 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
- Acts 21:1 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When it happened that we had parted from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
- Acts 21:5 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.
- Acts 21:7 Ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
- Acts 21:11 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
- Acts 21:12 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 21:16 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
- Acts 21:17 ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
- Acts 21:18 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
- Acts 21:23 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
- Acts 21:25 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."
- Acts 22:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
- Acts 23:15 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
- Acts 24:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
- Acts 24:8 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."
- Acts 25:24 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
- Acts 26:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
- Acts 26:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
- Acts 26:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
- Acts 27:1 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
- Acts 27:2 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
- Acts 27:6 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.
- Acts 27:7 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
- Acts 27:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."
- Acts 27:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
- Acts 27:20 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small tempest pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
- Acts 27:26 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl But we must run aground on a certain island."
- Acts 27:27 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
- Acts 28:2 ἡμῖν ἡμᾶς pron 1 dat pl pron 1 acc pl The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
- Acts 28:7 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.
- Acts 28:10 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
- Acts 28:15 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.
- Acts 28:21 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
- Acts 28:22 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."
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.