ἔρχομαιérchomai

to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

Greek (New Testament) · G2064

Meanings

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, and elsewhere; followed by ἀπό, Mark 5:35, Mark 7:1, John 3:2, and elsewhere; ἐκ, Luke 5:17, John 3:31, and elsewhere; εἰς, Mark 1:29, and elsewhere; διά followed by εἰς, Mark 7:31; ἐν, Romans 15:29, 1 Corinthians 4:21; ἐπί, with accusative, Mark 6:53, Mark 11:13, John 19:33, and elsewhere; κατά, with accusative, Luke 10:33, Acts 16:7; παρά, with genitive, Luke 8:49; with accusative, Matthew 15:29, Mark 9:14, and elsewhere; with dative comm., incomm., Matthew 21:5, Revelation 2:5, Revelation 2:16; with adverbs: πόθεν, John 3:8, and elsewhere; ἄνωθεν, John 3:31; ὄπισθεν, Mark 5:27; ὧδε, Matthew 8:29; ἐκεῖ, John 18:3; ποῦ, Hebrews 11:8; followed by ἕως, Luke 4:42; ἄχρι, Acts 11:5; with purpose expressed by infinitive, Mark 5:14, Luke 1:59, and elsewhere; by future participle, 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, and elsewhere; ἔρχου καὶ ἴδε, John 1:47, John 11:34; ἐλθών, Matthew 2:8, Matthew 8:7, Mark 7:25, Acts 16:39, and elsewhere; similarly ἐρχόμενος, Luke 15:25, and elsewhere; of coming into public view: especially of the Messiah (ὁ ἐρχόμενος, Matthew 11:3, and elsewhere; see Cremer, 264), Luke 3:16, John 4:25; hence, of Jesus, Matthew 11:19, Luke 7:34, John 5:43, and elsewhere; of the second coming, Matthew 10:23, Acts 1:11, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, and elsewhere

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

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

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-, παρ-εἰσ-, συν-εἰσ-, ἐξ-, δι-εξ-, ἐπ-, κατ-, παρ-, ἀντι-παρ-, περι-, προ-, προσ-, συν-έρχομαι.)

Synonyms

πορεύομαι, χωρέω.

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 627 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 2:2 “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose, and we have come to worship him.”
  • Matthew 2:8 Then he told them, “Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!”
  • Matthew 2:9 After this interview the wise men went their way. And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was.
  • Matthew 2:11 They entered the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
  • Matthew 2:23 So the family went and lived in a town called Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
  • Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.