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παραγίνομαι

to appear

‘to appear’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G3854 Strong's Greek
paragínomai Transliteration
/par-ag-in'-om-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 37 appearances

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About this entry

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παραγινομαι — transliterated paragínomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to appear.” Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (54% of all occurrences). With 37 verses in 8 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Translators differ — “came” in the King James Version, then “arrived” (Berean Standard Bible) and “having arrived” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
come
Modern gloss
to appear
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3854 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 →

37
distinct verses
The word appears in 37 distinct verses.
8 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:1.
Hebrews 9:11
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Hebrews 9:11.
#397
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 397 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 37 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 14 · 38%
  • Acts 20 · 54%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 5%
  • General Epistles 1 · 3%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 37 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 28 verses · 76%
  • Gospels 14 verses · 38%
  • Johannine 2 verses · 5%
  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 3%

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: Came 10×, They came 3×, They were come 3×
  • American Standard Version: Came 8×, They were come 4×, Cometh 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Arrived 6×, Arrival 4×, Came 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having arrived 8×, Came 4×, Having come 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3854 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 10×
  • “They came” 3×
  • “They were come” 3×
  • “Was come” 3×
  • “Cometh” 2×
  • “He came” 2×
  • “Were come” 2×

Plus 13 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 G3854 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 8×
  • “They were come” 4×
  • “Cometh” 3×
  • “He was come” 3×
  • “He came” 2×
  • “Was come” 2×
  • “Were come” 2×

Plus 14 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 G3854 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Arrived” 6×
  • “Arrival” 4×
  • “Came” 4×
  • “Arriving” 2×
  • “He went” 2×
  • “Returned” 2×
  • “They came” 2×

Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3854 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having arrived” 8×
  • “Came” 4×
  • “Having come” 4×
  • “Comes” 2×
  • “Coming” 2×
  • “I came” 2×

Plus 17 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 2 senses 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.

  1. to be present, to come near, approach
  2. to come forth, make one's public appearance

Word origin

Derived from παρα (pará) (G3844) — from.

Part of speech: Verb

From G3844 and G1096 ; to become near that is approach ( have arrived ); by implication to appear publicly : - come go be present.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 15 distinct written forms G3854 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
παραγενόμενος paragenómenos Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 14:21 9
παραγενόμενοι paragenómenoi Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 7:4 6
παρεγένετο paregéneto Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 11:6 4
παρεγένοντο paregénonto Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 2:1 4
παραγίνεται paragínetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 3:1 3
παρεγενόμην paregenómēn Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 12:51 2
Παραγενόμενος Paragenómenos Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 9:26 1
Παρεγένετο Paregéneto Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:19 1
παραγένωμαι paragénōmai Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 16:3 1
παραγένωνται paragénōntai Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Acts 23:35 1
παραγενομένου paragenoménou Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 25:7 1
παραγενομένους paragenoménous Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 22:52 1
παραγενόμενον paragenómenon Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 9:39 1
παραγενόμενός paragenómenós Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 28:21 1
παρεγίνοντο paregínonto Verb, Imperfect, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 3:23 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3854, 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

+51 more words share this root (not shown).

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word παραγινομαι appears 113 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 111 verses in 21 books.

113
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
111
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
21 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 21 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3854) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 111. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3854) 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.

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