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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. John 6:17ἐληλύθει · had not yet gone out
    …got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet gone out to them.
  2. John 6:23ἦλθεν · landed
    However, some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
  3. John 6:24ἦλθον · went
    So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.
  4. John 6:35ἐρχόμενος · comes
    Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
  5. John 6:37ἐρχόμενον · comes
    Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
  6. John 6:44ἐλθεῖν · come
    “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
  7. John 6:45ἔρχεται · comes
    It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
  8. John 6:65ἐλθεῖν · come
    Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
  9. John 7:27ἔρχηται · comes
    But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
  10. John 7:28ἐλήλυθα · I have not come
    Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
  11. John 7:30ἐληλύθει · come
    So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
  12. John 7:31ἔλθῃ · comes
    Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
  13. John 7:34ἐλθεῖν · come
    You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
  14. John 7:36ἐλθεῖν · come
    What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
  15. John 7:37ἐρχέσθω · let him come
    On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
  16. John 7:41ἔρχεται · come
    Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
  17. John 7:42ἔρχεται · will come
    Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
  18. John 7:45Ἦλθον · returned
    Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
  19. John 7:50ἐλθὼν · had gone
    Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
  20. John 8:2ἤρχετο · came
    Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.
  21. John 8:14ἦλθον · I came {from}; ἔρχομαι · I came {from}
    Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
  22. John 8:20ἐληλύθει · come
    He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
  23. John 8:21ἐλθεῖν · come
    Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
  24. John 8:22ἐλθεῖν · come
    So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
  25. John 8:42ἐλήλυθα · I have not come
    Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
  26. John 9:4ἔρχεται · is coming
    While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
  27. John 9:7ἦλθεν · came [back]
    Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
  28. John 9:39ἦλθον · have come
    Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
  29. John 10:8ἦλθον · came
    All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
  30. John 10:10ἔρχεται · comes; ἦλθον · have come
    The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
  31. John 10:12ἐρχόμενον · coming
    The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
  32. John 10:41ἦλθον · came
    Many came to Him and said, “Although John never performed a sign, everything he said about this man was true.”
  33. John 11:17Ἐλθὼν · arrived
    When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.
  34. John 11:19ἐληλύθεισαν · had come
    …and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
  35. John 11:20ἔρχεται · was coming
    So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
  36. John 11:27ἐρχόμενος · was to come
    “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
  37. John 11:29ἤρχετο · went
    And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
  38. John 11:30ἐληλύθει · entered
    Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
  39. John 11:32ἦλθεν · came to
    When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
  40. John 11:34ἔρχου · Come
    “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
  41. John 11:38ἔρχεται · came
    Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
  42. John 11:45ἐλθόντες · had come
    Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
  43. John 11:48ἐλεύσονται · will come
    If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
  44. John 11:56ἔλθῃ · Will He come
    They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
  45. John 12:1ἦλθεν · came
    Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
  46. John 12:9ἦλθον · they came
    Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
  47. John 12:12ἐλθὼν · had come; ἔρχεται · was coming
    The next day the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.