ἔρχομαι

erchomaito come/goHow to read Greek
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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 12:13ἐρχόμενος · comes
    They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the King of Israel!”
  2. John 12:15ἔρχεται · is coming
    “Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”
  3. John 12:22ἔρχεται; ἔρχεται · went
    Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.
  4. John 12:23Ἐλήλυθεν · has come
    But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
  5. John 12:27ἦλθον · that I have come
    Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
  6. John 12:28Ἦλθεν · came
    Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
  7. John 12:46ἐλήλυθα · have come
    I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
  8. John 12:47ἦλθον · I have not come
    As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
  9. John 13:1ἦλθεν · had come
    It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
  10. John 13:6Ἔρχεται · He came
    He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”
  11. John 13:33ἐλθεῖν · come
    Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
  12. John 14:3ἔρχομαι · I will come
    And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
  13. John 14:6ἔρχεται · comes
    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
  14. John 14:18ἔρχομαι · I will come
    I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
  15. John 14:23ἐλευσόμεθα · We will come
    Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
  16. John 14:28ἔρχομαι · I am coming [back]
    You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
  17. John 14:30ἔρχεται · is coming
    I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
  18. John 15:22ἦλθον · I had not come
    If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
  19. John 15:26ἔλθῃ · comes
    When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.
  20. John 16:2ἔρχεται · is coming
    They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
  21. John 16:4ἔλθῃ · comes
    But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
  22. John 16:7ἔλθῃ · will not come
    But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
  23. John 16:8ἐλθὼν · He comes
    And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
  24. John 16:13ἔλθῃ · comes; ἐρχόμενα · to come
    However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
  25. John 16:21ἦλθεν · has come
    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
  26. John 16:25ἔρχεται · is coming
    I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
  27. John 16:28ἐλήλυθα · entered
    I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
  28. John 16:32ἔρχεται · is coming; ἐλήλυθεν · has already come
    “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
  29. John 17:1ἐλήλυθεν · has come
    When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
  30. John 17:11ἔρχομαι · am coming
    I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
  31. John 17:13ἔρχομαι · I am coming
    But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
  32. John 18:3ἔρχεται · They arrived
    So Judas brought a band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. They arrived at the garden carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.
  33. John 18:4ἐρχόμενα · was coming
    Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon Him, stepped forward and asked them, “Whom are you seeking?”
  34. John 18:37ἐλήλυθα · have come
    “Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
  35. John 19:3ἤρχοντο · they went up
    And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
  36. John 19:32ἦλθον · came
    So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.
  37. John 19:33ἐλθόντες · they came
    But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
  38. John 19:38ἦλθεν · he came
    Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.
  39. John 19:39ἦλθεν; ἐλθὼν · had previously come
    Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
  40. John 20:1ἔρχεται · went
    Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
  41. John 20:2ἔρχεται · she came
    So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,” she said, “and we do not know where they have put Him!”
  42. John 20:3ἤρχοντο
    Then Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb.
  43. John 20:4ἦλθεν · reached
    The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
  44. John 20:6Ἔρχεται · arrived
    Simon Peter arrived just after him. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.
  45. John 20:8ἐλθὼν · had reached
    Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed.
  46. John 20:18Ἔρχεται · went
    Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.