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To come/be present

ἥκωStrong’s G2240

hēkō

Appears in 25 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hēkō is the Greek word usually translated “come”, “is come” and “have come”. It appears in 25 verses of the New Testament.

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
2 Peter 3:10 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “come”, “is come” and “have come”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • will come 13
  • is come 3
  • they will come 2
  • i have come 2
  • i will come 2
  • have come 1
  • had come 1
  • am here 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 5
  • Revelation 5
  • Matthew 4
  • John 4
  • Hebrews 3
  • Mark 1

9 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 25 verses, by book
Mark 1
8:3
Romans 1
11:26
Hebrews 3
10:710:910:37
2 Peter 1
3:10
1 John 1
5:20
Revelation 5
2:253:33:915:418:8
Greek dictionary

ἥκω hēkō · to come/be present

ἥκω [in LXX chiefly for בּוֹא ;] pf. with present meaning (hence imperfect = plpf.), to have come, be present: Mat.24:50, Mrk.8:3 (late pf., ἧκα, see Swete, in l; WH, App., 169), Luk.12:46 15:27, Jhn.8:42, Heb.10:7, 9 10:37, I Jn 5:20, Rev.2:25 3:3, 9 15:4; before ἀπό, with genitive loc., Mat.8:11, Luk.13:29; ἐκ, Rom.11:26; id. before εἰς, Jhn.4:47; μακρόθεν, Mrk.8:3; ἐπί, with accusative, Rev.3:3. Metaphorical, of discipleship: Jhn.6:37; of time and events: absol., Mat.24:14, Jhn.2:4, 2Pe.3:10, Rev.18:8; before ἐπί with accusative of person(s), Mat.23:36, Luk.19:43 (cf. ἀν-, καθ-ήκω).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “come” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

COME, verb intransitive

  1. To move towards; to advance near, in any manner, and from any distance.
  2. To draw nigh; to approach; to arrive; to be present“COME thou and all thy house into the ark” Genesis 7:1“All my time will I wait, till my change come” Job 14:14“When shall I come and appear before God?” Psalms 42:2“Then shall the end come” Matthew 24:14“Thy kingdom come; thy will be done” Matthew 6:10
  3. To advance and arrive at some state or condition; as, the ships came to action; the players came to blows; is it come to this?“His sons come to honor and he knoweth it not” Job 14:21
  4. To happen or fall out; as, how comes that? Let come what will.“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds” Ezra 9:13“All things come alike to all” Ecclesiastes 9:2
All definitions and other forms of “come”
  1. To advance or move into view; to appear; as, blood or color comes and goes in the face.
  2. To sprout, as plants; to spring. Isaiah 37:3
  3. To become.
  4. To appear or be formed, as butter; to advance or change from cream to butter; a common use of the word; as, the butter comes.
  5. come in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come let us go.“The Lord will come down on mount Sinai” Exodus 19:11“Your principalities shall come down” Jeremiah 13:18“COME down from thy glory” Jeremiah 48:18

COME, noun

A sprout.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.