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.
Grammatical forms
- Personal pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Plural 401 times (47%)
- Personal pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Plural 168 times (19%)
- Personal pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Plural 167 times (19%)
- Personal pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Plural 126 times (15%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 862 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 4 of 4 — showing verses 601–691 of 691 distinct verses where G2249 appears, across 27 books. 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.
Hebrews 25 verses
- Hebrews 12:1 ἡμεῖς ἡμῖν ἡμῖν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 dat pl pron 1 dat pl Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
- Hebrews 12:9 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
- Hebrews 12:25 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
- Hebrews 12:29 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl for our God is a consuming fire.
- Hebrews 13:6 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
- Hebrews 13:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
- Hebrews 13:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- Hebrews 13:21 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Hebrews 13:23 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
James 7 verses
- James 1:18 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- James 2:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
- James 2:21 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
- James 3:3 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
- James 3:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
- James 4:5 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
- James 5:17 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
1 Peter 3 verses
- 1 Peter 1:3 ἡμῶν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 acc pl Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 2:24 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- 1 Peter 4:17 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Gospel of God?
2 Peter 12 verses
- 2 Peter 1:1 ἡμῖν ἡμῶν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
- 2 Peter 1:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
- 2 Peter 1:3 ἡμῖν ἡμᾶς pron 1 dat pl pron 1 acc pl seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
- 2 Peter 1:4 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
- 2 Peter 1:8 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Peter 1:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- 2 Peter 1:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
- 2 Peter 1:16 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- 2 Peter 1:18 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl This voice we heard come out of heaven when we were with him in the holy mountain.
- 2 Peter 2:20 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
- 2 Peter 3:15 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
- 2 Peter 3:18 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
1 John 34 verses
- 1 John 1:1 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
- 1 John 1:2 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
- 1 John 1:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 1:4 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
- 1 John 1:7 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- 1 John 1:8 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 1:9 ἡμῶν ἡμῖν ἡμᾶς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 dat pl pron 1 acc pl If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 1:10 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
- 1 John 2:2 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- 1 John 2:19 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- 1 John 2:25 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
- 1 John 3:1 ἡμῖν ἡμᾶς pron 1 dat pl pron 1 acc pl Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
- 1 John 3:14 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
- 1 John 3:16 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- 1 John 3:19 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
- 1 John 3:20 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
- 1 John 3:21 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
- 1 John 3:23 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
- 1 John 3:24 ἡμῖν ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 dat pl He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- 1 John 4:6 ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
- 1 John 4:9 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- 1 John 4:10 ἡμεῖς ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 John 4:11 ἡμᾶς ἡμεῖς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 nom pl Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
- 1 John 4:12 ἡμῖν ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 dat pl No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
- 1 John 4:13 ἡμῖν ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 dat pl By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
- 1 John 4:14 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- 1 John 4:16 ἡμεῖς ἡμῖν pron 1 nom pl pron 1 dat pl We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
- 1 John 4:17 ἡμῶν ἡμεῖς pron 1 gen pl pron 1 nom pl In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
- 1 John 4:19 ἡμεῖς ἡμᾶς pron 1 nom pl pron 1 acc pl We love Him, because he first loved us.
- 1 John 5:4 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
- 1 John 5:11 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1 John 5:14 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
- 1 John 5:15 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
- 1 John 5:20 ἡμῖν pron 1 dat pl We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
2 John 3 verses
- 2 John 1:2 ἡμῖν ἡμῶν pron 1 dat pl pron 1 gen pl for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
- 2 John 1:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
- 2 John 1:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
3 John 4 verses
- 3 John 1:8 ἡμεῖς pron 1 nom pl We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
- 3 John 1:9 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say.
- 3 John 1:10 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
- 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
- Jude 1:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
- Jude 1:4 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:17 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:21 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
- Jude 1:25 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Revelation 14 verses
- Revelation 1:5 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς ἡμῶν pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl pron 1 gen pl and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
- Revelation 1:6 ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- Revelation 4:11 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"
- Revelation 5:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."
- Revelation 6:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
- Revelation 6:16 ἡμᾶς ἡμᾶς pron 1 acc pl pron 1 acc pl They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
- Revelation 7:3 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"
- Revelation 7:10 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
- Revelation 7:12 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."
- Revelation 11:15 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"
- Revelation 12:10 ἡμῶν ἡμῶν ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl pron 1 gen pl I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
- Revelation 19:1 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Revelation 19:5 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!"
- Revelation 19:6 ἡμῶν pron 1 gen pl I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
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.
