ἡμέτερος
our
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Genitive-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Possessive pronoun
- Marks possession (“my,” “your,” “his”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2251 appears in the Book of 1 John — 2 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.
1 John
- 1 John 1:3 ἡμετέρα poss.pron 1 nom pl fem 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 2:2 ἡμετέρων poss.pron 1 gen pl fem And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
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.
ημετερος — transliterated hēméteros — is a Greek word carrying the sense “our.” It first appears in Acts 2:11. With 7 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (29% of all occurrences). See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2251 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 43%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 29%
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 29%
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: Our 5×, Ours 2×
- American Standard Version: Our 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Our 4×, Ours 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Our 5×, Own 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2251 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G2251 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2251 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2251 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- our, your
Word origin
Derived from θνητος (thnētós) (G2349) — mortal.
From G2349 ; our . (Or your by a different reading.): - our your [by a different reading].
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G2251 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἡμέτεροι hēméteroi | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Titus 3:14 | 1 |
| ἡμετέρα hēmetéra | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | 1 John 1:3 | 1 |
| ἡμετέραις hēmetérais | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 2:11 | 1 |
| ἡμετέραν hēmetéran | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Romans 15:4 | 1 |
| ἡμετέρας hēmetéras | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Acts 26:5 | 1 |
| ἡμετέροις hēmetérois | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Timothy 4:15 | 1 |
| ἡμετέρων hēmetérōn | Possessive pronoun, 1st person, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | 1 John 2:2 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ημετερος appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 4 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:26 ἡμέτερος
- Joshua 5:13 ἡμέτερος
- Psalms 34:14 ἡμέτερος
- Proverbs 1:13 ἡμέτερος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2251) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:26 ἡμέτερος God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Joshua 5:13 ἡμέτερος It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?
- Psalms 34:14 ἡμέτερος Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
- Proverbs 1:13 ἡμέτερος We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.
- Proverbs 4:4 ἡμέτερος He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2251) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
