ἐγώ

egō

Greek G1473 Personal pronoun 2,585 occurrences in 1,832 verses
ἐγώ I/we

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 Mat.3:11, Mrk.1:8, Luk.3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Mat.10:16, Jhn.10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. 1Ki.3:8), Act.9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, Jhn.1:23 (LXX), Act.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, Jhn.14:20; μου τ. λόγους, Mat.7:24; ὀπίσω μου, Mat.3:11; ἰσχυρότερός μου, ib.; λέγει μοι, Rev.5:5; also with the prep. πρός, as Mrk.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 Luk.10:16, Jhn.7:23, Mrk.14:7, al.

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

(d) τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ( = Heb. מַה־לִי וָלָךְ, Jdg.11:12, al.), i.e. what have we in common: Mat.8:29, Mrk.1:24, 5:7, Luk.8:28, Jhn.2:4; τί γάρ μοι, 1Co.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: Mat.2:8, Luk.2:48, Jhn.6:56, Rom.3:7, 1Co.7:40, al.; κἀγώ . . . καί, both . . . and, Jhn.7:28.

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Concordance 1,832 verses

  1. I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.

  2. 2 Corinthians 7:4 μοιμοιἡμῶν

    Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.

  3. 2 Corinthians 7:5 ἡμῶνἡμῶν

    For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

  4. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

  5. 2 Corinthians 7:7 ἡμῖνἐμοῦμε

    and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced all the more.

  6. And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.

  7. So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.

  8. On account of this, we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.

  9. Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

  10. they earnestly pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.

  11. And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.

  12. So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.

  13. But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspired in you —see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

  14. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

  15. 2 Corinthians 8:19 ἡμῶνἡμῶνἡμῶν

    More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the offering —the gracious gift we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.

  16. 2 Corinthians 8:20 ἡμᾶςἡμῶν

    We hope to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this generous gift.

  17. And we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.

  18. As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you. As for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, to the glory of Christ.

  19. In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.

  20. Now about the service to the saints, there is no need for me to write to you.

  21. But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

  22. 2 Corinthians 9:4 ἐμοὶἡμεῖς

    Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.

  23. You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, so that through us your giving will produce thanksgiving to God.

  24. Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.

  25. I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

  26. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

  27. 2 Corinthians 10:7 ἡμεῖς

    You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.

  28. For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  29. 2 Corinthians 10:13 ἡμεῖςἡμῖν

    We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.

  30. Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,

  31. 2 Corinthians 11:1 μουμου

    I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.

  32. And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.

  33. 2 Corinthians 11:10 ἐμοὶἐμὲ

    As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

  34. 2 Corinthians 11:12 ἡμεῖς

    But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

  35. I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

  36. 2 Corinthians 11:21 ἡμεῖς

    To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

  37. Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

  38. Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

  39. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

  40. If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

  41. In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.

  42. 2 Corinthians 12:6 ἐμὲμεἐμοῦ

    Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

  43. or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

  44. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

  45. 2 Corinthians 12:9 μοιμουμουἐμὲ

    But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

  46. 2 Corinthians 12:11 μεἐγὼ

    I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

  47. 2 Corinthians 12:13 ἐγὼμοι

    In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

  48. And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

  49. Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.

  50. 2 Corinthians 12:21 μουμεμου

    I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

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