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.
37 verses where G2249 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Romans. 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.
Romans
- Romans 1:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
- Romans 1:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 3:5 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
- Romans 4:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
- Romans 4:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
- Romans 4:16 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Romans 4:24 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
- Romans 4:25 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
- Romans 5:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Romans 5:5 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Romans 5:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- Romans 5:8 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
- Romans 5:21 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:6 ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
- Romans 6:23 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 7:5 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
- Romans 7:25 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
- Romans 8:16 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
- Romans 8:23 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- Romans 8:26 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
- Romans 8:31 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Romans 8:32 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Romans 8:34 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
- Romans 8:39 ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 9:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
- Romans 10:16 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
- Romans 13:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Romans 14:7 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
- Romans 14:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
- Romans 15:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
- Romans 15:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 15:30 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
- Romans 16:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
- Romans 16:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
- Romans 16:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
- Romans 16:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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.
