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 John — 44 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.
John
- John 1:14 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:16 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
- John 1:22 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
- John 2:18 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
- John 3:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
- John 4:12 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle?"
- John 4:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
- John 4:22 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
- John 4:25 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
- John 6:31 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
- John 6:34 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
- John 6:42 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"
- John 6:52 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
- John 6:69 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
- John 7:51 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
- John 8:39 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
- John 8:41 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
- John 8:48 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
- John 8:53 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
- John 8:54 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
- John 9:4 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
- John 9:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
- John 9:21 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
- John 9:24 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
- John 9:28 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
- John 9:29 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
- John 9:34 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
- John 9:40 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
- John 10:24 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
- John 11:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
- John 11:16 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
- John 11:48 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
- John 12:34 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
- John 12:38 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
- John 14:8 ἡμῖν ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 dat pl Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
- John 14:9 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
- John 14:22 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
- John 16:17 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
- John 17:11 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
- John 17:21 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
- John 17:22 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
- John 18:31 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
- John 19:7 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
- John 21:3 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
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.
