Word

ἥκω

hḗkō · G2240 · Greek · 26 occurrences

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Meanings

to come to, to reach, to arrive

To move toward and to arrive at a point

Examples
Matthew 8:11 “And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
Luke 13:29 “And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
John 2:4 And Jesus said to her, “What business do you have with Me, woman? My hour has not yet come.”
to be here, to be there

To be in a place, as the result of having arrived

Examples
Matthew 24:50 then the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know,
Luke 12:46 then the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
Luke 15:27 “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’
to happen, to have happened

To have come or to be present, with respect to some temporal reference point

Examples
Matthew 23:36 “Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Matthew 24:14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Luke 19:43 “For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

26 occurrences in 18 groups

Not stated: I 6
Other words · 17 groups that occur once or twice (20) 20

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἔτιstill 1
οὔπωnot yet 1
τότεthen 1

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 7 groups

γινώσκωto know 1
γράφωto write 1
εἴδωto know 1
ἀκούωto hear 1
ἔπωto say 1
κρύπτωto hide 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ποιέωto do, to make 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄχριuntil 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

ἐπέρχομαι epérchomai · G1904 · to come to, to arrive, to attack: The target term ἐφίστημι and ἐπέρχομαι (“to supervene, to arrive, to occur”) both occupy the semantic space of arrival or occurrence; ἐπέρχομαι carries a nuance of overtaking or supervening upon someone, a legitimate narrowing within the shared convergence zone of arrival and occurrence.

In the other Testament 1 word

בּוֹא bôwʼ · H935 · to come in, to go, to arrive, to reach: ἥκω emphasizes arrival as a present state or completed action ("have come and am now here"), while בּוֹא broadly covers the motion of coming/entering with less emphasis on the resultant present state.

Semantic domains 3 entries

To happen, to have happened13.112: In Matthew 24:14, Jesus says of the gospel being preached to all nations, “and then the end will come,” using this verb for an event coming to pass.
To come to, to reach, to arrive15.84: In Matthew 8:11, Jesus says, “many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,” using this verb for arriving at a place.
To be here, to be there85.10: In Matthew 24:50, of an unfaithful slave it is written, “the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect,” using this verb for a person's arrival and presence.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἥκωhḗkō · G2240ἀνήκω anḗkō · G433 · to be fitting, to be right · 3×ἐφικνέομαι ephiknéomai · G2185 · to come to, to reach, to arrive · 2×καθήκω kathḗkō · G2520 · to be fitting, to be right · 2×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect ἧκον (Acts 28:23, where L T Tr WH ἦλθον); future ἥξω; 1 aorist ᾖξα (Lk 13:35 R…

imperfect ἧκον (Acts 28:23, where L T Tr WH ἦλθον); future ἥξω; 1 aorist ᾖξα (Lk 13:35 R G; Rev 2:25; Rev 3:9 Rec.); perfect ἦκα (often in the Sept., as Gen 42:7, Gen 42:9; Gen 45:16; (Gen 47:4); Josh 9:12 (7); Job 16:22, etc.; in the N. T. once, Mk 8:3 Rst L T Tr text, see, WHs Appendix, p. 169; the older and more elegant writers (Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, others) use only the present imperfect and future; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 743f; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii. 205; (Veitch, under the word); Winers Grammar, 87 (83); (Buttmann, 59 (51))); the Sept. for בּוא; to have come, have arrived, be present (Winers Grammar, 274 (258); Buttmann, 203 (176)); hence, imperfect with force of pluperfect (cf. Matthiae, ii., p. 1136; Krüger, § 53, 1, 4): absolutely of persons, Mt 24:50; Mk 8:3; Lk 12:46; Lk 15:27; Jn 8:42; Heb 10:7, Heb 10:9, Heb 10:37; 1 Jn 5:20; Rev 2:25; Rev 3:9; Rev 15:4; followed by ἀπό with the genitive of place, Mt 8:11; Lk 13:29; by ἐκ with the genitive of place, Rom 11:26; with addition of εἰς with accusative of place, Jn 4:47; μακρόθεν, Mk 8:3; πρός τινα, Acts 28:23 Rec.; metaphorically, to come to one i. e. seek an intimacy with one, become his follower: Jn 6:37; ἐπί τινα, to come upon one (unexpectedly), Rev 3:3. of time and events: absolutely, Mt 24:14; Jn 2:4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 18:8; ἕως ἄν ἥξῃ (L T WH Tr in brackets ἥξει; see above and Buttmann, 231 (199)) (namely, ὁ καιρός), ὅτε εἴπητε, Lk 13:35; ἐπί τινα, metaphorically, to come upon one, of things to be endured (as evils, calamitous times): Mt 23:36; Lk 19:43. (Compare: ἀνήκω,

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Happen7 occurrences Come, Come To, Arrive16 occurrences Be in a Place8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

ἥκω