ἡμεῖς

G2249 Strong's Greek

hēmeîs Transliteration

/hay-mice'/ Pronunciation

Usage in the GNT 862 appearances

Definition — Thayer's

1. us, we etc.

Cite this entry

Strong's G2249 — ημεις (hēmeîs), "we". Thayer's Greek Lexicon (1889). Lemma, https://lemma.gebible.app/w/G2249.

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  title        = {G2249 ημεις (hēmeîs) — we},
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  note         = {Thayer's Greek Lexicon (1889). Lemma interlinear Bible study tool}
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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Personal pronoun: Stands in for a person already named (“I,” “you,” “he”).

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).

1st person: The speaker (“I / we”).

Plural: More than one.

Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–359 of 359 distinct verses where G2249 appears in the Genitive case, across 27 books. 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.

2 Corinthians 50 verses

2 Corinthians 10:15 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

Galatians 9 verses

Ephesians 12 verses

Philippians 4 verses

Colossians 6 verses

1 Thessalonians 26 verses

2 Thessalonians 16 verses

1 Timothy 7 verses

2 Timothy 4 verses

Titus 8 verses

Philemon 3 verses

Hebrews 12 verses

James 3 verses

1 Peter 3 verses

2 Peter 9 verses

1 John 15 verses

2 John 3 verses

3 John 1 verse

3 John 1:12 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

Jude 5 verses

Revelation 12 verses

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

Strong's · 1890

Modern gloss

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.
Matthew 1:23: first appearance; The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:23.
Revelation 19:6: last appearance; The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:6.
#23: by frequency; Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 23 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

Acts 109 verses 16%
2 Corinthians 81 verses 12%
Luke 54 verses 8%

By section of the New Testament

Gospels 157 · 23%
Acts 109 · 16%
Pauline Epistles 318 · 46%
General Epistles 93 · 13%
Revelation 14 · 2%

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:

“We” 118×
“Shall we” 2×
“Us” 2×

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:

“We” 117×
“Us” 3×

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

εγω egṓ G1473 I

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.