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ἐγώ

egōI/weHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentPronoun2,585 occurrences27 books1,832 verses

Definition

ἐγώ, genitive, etc., ἐμοῦ, ἐμοί, ἐμέ (enclitic μου, μοι, με), pl. ἡμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς,

of person(s) pron.

I.

(a) The nom. is usually emphatic, when expressed as subjc, as in Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Matthew 10:16, John 10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. 1 Kings 3:8), Acts 9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, John 1:23 (LXX), Acts 7:32 (LXX).

(b) The enclitic forms (see supr.) are used with nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, where there is no emphasis: ἐν τ. πατρί μου, John 14:20; μου τ. λόγους, Matthew 7:24; ὀπίσω μου, Matthew 3:11; ἰσχυρότερός μου, ib.; λέγει μοι, Revelation 5:5; also with the prep. πρός, as Mark 9:19, al. The full forms (ἐμοῦ, etc.) are used with the other prepositions, as δι᾽ ἐμοῦ, ἐν ἐμοί, εἰς ἐμέ, etc., also for emphasis, as Luke 10:16, John 7:23, Mark 14:7, al.

(with) The genitive μου and ἡμῶν are often used for the poss. pronouns ἐμός, ἡμέτερος: τ. λαόν μου, Matthew 2:6; μου τῂ ἀπιστιᾳ, Mark 9:24.

(d) τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ( = Heb. מַה־לִי וָלָךְ, Judges 11:12, al.), i.e. what have we in common: Matthew 8:29, Mark 1:24; 5:7, Luke 8:28, John 2:4; τί γάρ μοι, 1 Corinthians 5:2.

(e) The interchange of ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς, common in π., appears in Pauline Epp. (see M, Pr., 86f., M, Th., 131f.).

(f) κἀγώ (= καὶ ἐγώ), and I, even I, I also: Matthew 2:8, Luke 2:48, John 6:56, Romans 3:7, 1 Corinthians 7:40, al.; κἀγώ . . . καί, both . . . and, John 7:28.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ἐγώ:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

2,585 total
  1. Acts 2:18μου; μου · My
    Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
  2. Acts 2:25μου · me; μού · my
    David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  3. Acts 2:26μου · my; μου · my; μου · my
    Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,
  4. Acts 2:27μου · my
    …because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  5. Acts 2:28μοι · to me; με · me
    You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’
  6. Acts 2:29ἡμῖν · us
    Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
  7. Acts 2:32ἡμεῖς · we
    God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
  8. Acts 2:34μου · my; μου · My
    For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
  9. Acts 2:39ἡμῶν · our
    This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
  10. Acts 3:4ἡμᾶς · us
    Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.
  11. Acts 3:6μοι · I do not have
    But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
  12. Acts 3:12ἡμῖν · at us
    And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
  13. Acts 3:13ἡμῶν · of our
    The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
  14. Acts 3:15ἡμεῖς · [and] we
    You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.
  15. Acts 3:22ἐμέ · me
    For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
  16. Acts 4:9ἡμεῖς · we
    If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
  17. Acts 4:12ἡμᾶς · we
    Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
  18. Acts 4:20ἡμεῖς · we
    For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
  19. Acts 4:25ἡμῶν · our
    You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
  20. Acts 5:8μοι · me
    “Tell me,” said Peter, “is this the price you and your husband got for the land?” “Yes,” she answered, “that is the price.”
  21. Acts 5:28ἡμᾶς
    “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
  22. Acts 5:30ἡμῶν · our
    The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
  23. Acts 5:32ἡμεῖς · We
    We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
  24. Acts 6:2ἡμᾶς · [for] us
    So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
  25. Acts 6:4ἡμεῖς
    …and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
  26. Acts 6:14ἡμῖν · to us
    For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
  27. Acts 7:2ἡμῶν · our
    And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
  28. Acts 7:7ἐγώ · I; μοι · Me
    ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’
  29. Acts 7:11ἡμῶν · our
    Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
  30. Acts 7:12ἡμῶν · our
    When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
  31. Acts 7:15ἡμῶν · our
    So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
  32. Acts 7:19ἡμῶν · our; ἡμῶν · our
    He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
  33. Acts 7:27ἡμῶν · us
    But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
  34. Acts 7:28με
    Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
  35. Acts 7:32Ἐγὼ · I [am]
    ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
  36. Acts 7:34μου · My
    I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
  37. Acts 7:37ἐμέ · me
    This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
  38. Acts 7:38ἡμῶν · our; ἡμῖν · to us
    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
  39. Acts 7:39ἡμῶν · [But] our
    But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
  40. Acts 7:40ἡμῖν · us; ἡμῶν · us
    They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’