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 Matthew — 39 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 1:23 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" Which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
- Matthew 3:15 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.
- Matthew 6:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
- Matthew 6:11 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl Give us today our daily bread.
- Matthew 6:12 ἡμῖν ἡμῶν ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
- Matthew 6:13 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'
- Matthew 8:17 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."
- Matthew 8:29 ἡμῖν ἡμᾶς pron 1 dat pl pron 1 acc pl Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
- Matthew 8:31 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."
- Matthew 9:14 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
- Matthew 9:27 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"
- Matthew 13:36 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field."
- Matthew 13:56 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?"
- Matthew 15:15 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
- Matthew 15:23 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."
- Matthew 15:33 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
- Matthew 17:4 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
- Matthew 17:19 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
- Matthew 19:27 ἡμεῖς ἡμῖν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 dat pl Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
- Matthew 20:7 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'
- Matthew 20:12 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'
- Matthew 20:30 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"
- Matthew 20:31 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"
- Matthew 20:33 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."
- Matthew 21:26 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."
- Matthew 21:42 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
- Matthew 22:17 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
- Matthew 22:25 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
- Matthew 23:30 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
- Matthew 24:3 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
- Matthew 25:8 ἡμῖν ἡμῶν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
- Matthew 25:9 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'
- Matthew 25:11 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
- Matthew 26:63 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."
- Matthew 26:68 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"
- Matthew 27:4 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
- Matthew 27:25 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"
- Matthew 28:13 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
- Matthew 28:14 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry."
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.
