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.
Every verse where G2249 appears in the Book of Ephesians — 24 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.
Ephesians
- Ephesians 1:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 1:3 ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
- Ephesians 1:4 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
- Ephesians 1:5 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
- Ephesians 1:6 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,
- Ephesians 1:8 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
- Ephesians 1:9 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
- Ephesians 1:12 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- Ephesians 1:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
- Ephesians 1:17 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
- Ephesians 1:19 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
- Ephesians 2:3 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Ephesians 2:4 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
- Ephesians 2:5 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- Ephesians 2:7 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
- Ephesians 2:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
- Ephesians 3:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
- Ephesians 3:20 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- Ephesians 4:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Ephesians 5:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Ephesians 5:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
- Ephesians 6:12 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
- Ephesians 6:22 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.
- Ephesians 6:24 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. 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.
