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ἔρχομαι

erchomaito come/goHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentVerb634 occurrences24 books597 verses

Definition

ἔρχομαι,

[in LXX very frequently for בּוֹא, also for הלךְ ni., אתה, etc., 34 words in all ;]

1. to come;

(a) of persons, either as arriving or returning from elsewhere: Matthew 8:9, Mark 6:31, Luke 7:8, John 4:27, Romans 9:9, al.; before ἀπό, Mark 5:35; 7:1, John 3:2, al.; ἐκ, Luke 5:17, John 3:31, al.; εἰς, Mark 1:29, al.; διά before εἰς, Mark 7:31; ἐν (Cremer, 263f., but see: ἐν), Romans 15:29, 1 Corinthians 4:21; ἐπί, with accusative, Mark 6:53; 11:13, John 19:33, al.; κατά, with accusative, Luke 10:33, Acts 16:7; παρά, with genitive, Luke 8:49; with accusative, Matthew 15:29, Mark 9:14, al.; with dative comm., incomm. (M, Pr., 75, 245), Matthew 21:5, Revelation 2:5, 16; with adverbs: πόθεν, John 3:8, al.; ἄνωθεν, John 3:31; ὄπισθεν, Mark 5:27; ὧδε, Matthew 8:29; ἐκεῖ, John 18:3; ποῦ, Hebrews 11:8; before ἕως, Luke 4:42; ἄχρι, Acts 11:5; with purpose expressed by inf., Mark 5:14, Luke 1:59, al.; by fut. ptcp., Matthew 27:49; ἵνα, John 12:9; εἰς τοῦτο, ἵνα, Acts 9:21; διά, with accusative, John 12:9; before verbs of action, ἔρχεται καί, ἦλθε καί, etc.: Mark 2:18, John 6:15, al.; ἔρχου καὶ ἴδε, John 1:47; 11:34; ἐλθών (redundant; Dalman, Words, 20 f.), Matthew 2:8; 8:7, Mark 7:25, Acts 16:39, al.; similarly ἐρχόμενος, Luke 15:25, al.; of coming into public view: esp. of the Messiah (ὁ ἐρχόμενος, Matthew 11:3, al.; see Cremer, 264), Luke 3:16, John 4:25; hence, of Jesus, Matthew 11:19, Luke 7:34, John 5:43, al.; of the second coming, Matthew 10:23, Acts 1:11, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, al.;

(b) of time: ἔρξονται ἡμέραι (present for fut.: Bl., §56, 8), Luke 23:29, Hebrews 8:8" (LXX) ; fut., Matthew 9:15, Mark 2:20, al.; ἔρξεται ὥρα, ὅτε, John 4:21, 23. al.; ἦλθεν, ἐλήλυθε ἡ ὥρα, John 13:1; 16:32; 17:1; ἡ ἡμέρα τ. κυρίου, 1 Thessalonians 5:2; καιροί, Acts 3:19;

(with) of things and events: κατακλυσμός, Luke 17:27; λιμός, Acts 7:11; ἡ ὀργή, 1 Thessalonians 1:10; ὁ λύχνος, Mark 4:21 (see Swete, in l.). Metaphorical, τ. ἀγαθά, Romans 3:8; τ. τέλειον, 1 Corinthians 13:10; ἡ πίστις, Galatians 3:23, 25; ἡ ἐντολή, Romans 7:9; with prepositions: ἐκ τ. θλίψεως, Revelation 7:14; ἐις τ. χεῖρον, Mark 5:26; εἰς πειρασμόν, Mark 14:38, al.

2. to go: ὀπίσω, with genitive (Heb. הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי), Matthew 16:24, Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23; σύν, John 21:3; ὁδόν, Luke 2:44. (Cf. ἀν-, ἐπ-αν-, ἀπ-, δι-, εἰς, ἐπ-εἰσ-, συν-εἰσ-, ἐξ-, δι-εξ-, ἐπ-, κατ-, παρ-, ἀντι-παρ-, περι-, προ-, προσ-, συν-έρχομαι.)

Synonyms: πορεύομαι, χωρέω (v, Thayer, see word ἔρξομαι).

Hebrew words it translates

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

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

634 total
  1. Luke 24:23ἦλθον · They came
    …but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
  2. John 1:7ἦλθεν · came
    He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
  3. John 1:9ἐρχόμενον · coming
    The true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
  4. John 1:11ἦλθεν · He came
    He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
  5. John 1:15ἐρχόμενος · comes
    John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
  6. John 1:27ἐρχόμενος · comes
    He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
  7. John 1:29ἐρχόμενον · coming
    The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  8. John 1:30ἔρχεται · who comes
    This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
  9. John 1:31ἦλθον · came
    I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
  10. John 1:39Ἔρχεσθε · Come; ἦλθαν · they went
    “Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.
  11. John 1:46Ἔρχου · Come
    “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
  12. John 1:47ἐρχόμενον · approaching
    When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
  13. John 3:2ἦλθεν · came; ἐλήλυθας · who has come
    He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
  14. John 3:8ἔρχεται · it comes {from}
    The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
  15. John 3:19ἐλήλυθεν · has come
    And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
  16. John 3:20ἔρχεται · come
    Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
  17. John 3:21ἔρχεται · comes
    But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
  18. John 3:22ἦλθεν · went
    After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
  19. John 3:26ἦλθον · [John’s disciples] came; ἔρχονται · is going
    So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
  20. John 3:31ἐρχόμενος · comes; ἐρχόμενος · comes
    The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.
  21. John 4:5ἔρχεται · He came
    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  22. John 4:7Ἔρχεται · came
    When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
  23. John 4:16ἐλθὲ · come
    Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
  24. John 4:21ἔρχεται · is coming
    “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
  25. John 4:23ἔρχεται · is coming
    But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
  26. John 4:25ἔρχεται · is coming; ἔλθῃ · comes
    The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
  27. John 4:27ἦλθαν · returned
    Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
  28. John 4:30ἤρχοντο · made their way
    So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
  29. John 4:35ἔρχεται
    Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
  30. John 4:40ἦλθον · came
    So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
  31. John 4:45ἦλθεν · He arrived; ἦλθον · had gone
    Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.
  32. John 4:46Ἦλθεν · He came
    So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
  33. John 4:54ἐλθὼν · after coming
    This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.
  34. John 5:7ἔρχομαι · am on my way
    “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”
  35. John 5:24ἔρχεται · come
    Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
  36. John 5:25ἔρχεται · is coming
    Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
  37. John 5:28ἔρχεται · is coming
    Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
  38. John 5:40ἐλθεῖν · to come
    …yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
  39. John 5:43ἐλήλυθα · have come; ἔλθῃ · comes
    I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
  40. John 6:5ἔρχεται · coming
    When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”
  41. John 6:14ἐρχόμενος · is to come
    When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
  42. John 6:15ἔρχεσθαι · to come
    Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
  43. John 6:17ἤρχοντο · [and] started
    …got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet gone out to them.