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Lexicon :: Strong's G2240 - hēkō

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ἥκω
Transliteration
hēkō (Key)
Pronunciation
hay'-ko
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary verb
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:926,306

Strong’s Definitions

ἥκω hḗkō, hay'-ko; a primary verb; to arrive, i.e. be present (literally or figuratively):—come.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G2240 in the following manner: come (27x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G2240 in the following manner: come (27x).

  1. to have come, have arrived, be present

  2. metaph.

    1. to come to one, i.e. to seek an intimacy with one, become his follower: to come upon one (unexpectedly)

    2. to come upon one, of things endured

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἥκω hḗkō, hay'-ko; a primary verb; to arrive, i.e. be present (literally or figuratively):—come.
STRONGS G2240:
ἥκω; imperfect ἧκον (Acts 28:23, where L T Tr WH ἦλθον); future ἥξω; 1 aorist ἧξα (Luke 13:35 R G; Revelation 2:25; Revelation 3:9 Rec.); perfect ἧκα (often in the Sept., as Genesis 42:7, 9; Genesis 45:16; [Genesis 47:4]; Joshua 9:12 (7); Job 16:22, etc.; in the N. T. once, Mark 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; Bttm. Ausf. Spr. ii. 205; [Veitch, under the word]; Winers Grammar, 87 (83); [Buttmann, 59 (51)]); 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, Matthew 24:50; Mark 8:3; Luke 12:46; Luke 15:27; John 8:42; Hebrews 10:7, 9, 37; 1 John 5:20; Revelation 2:25; Revelation 3:9; Revelation 15:4; followed by ἀπό with the genitive of place, Matthew 8:11; Luke 13:29; by ἐκ with the genitive of place, Romans 11:26; with addition of εἰς with accusative of place, John 4:47; μακρόθεν, Mark 8:3; πρός τινα, Acts 28:23 Rec.; metaphorically, to come to one i. e. seek an intimacy with one, become his follower: John 6:37; ἐπί τινα, to come upon one (unexpectedly), Revelation 3:3. of time and events: absolutely, Matthew 24:14; John 2:4; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 18:8; ἕως ἄν ἥξῃ [L T WH Tr in brackets ἥξει; see above and Buttmann, 231 (199)] (namely, ὁ καιρός), ὅτε εἴπητε, Luke 13:35; ἐπί τινα, metaphorically, to come upon one, of things to be endured (as evils, calamitous times): Matthew 23:36; Luke 19:43. [Compare: ἀν-, καθήκω.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
42:7; 42:9; 45:16; 47:4
Joshua
9:12
Job
16:22
Matthew
8:11; 23:36; 24:14; 24:50
Mark
8:3; 8:3; 8:3
Luke
12:46; 13:29; 13:35; 13:35; 15:27; 19:43
John
2:4; 4:47; 6:37; 8:42
Acts
28:23; 28:23
Romans
11:26
Hebrews
10:7; 10:9; 10:37
2 Peter
3:10
1 John
5:20
Revelation
2:25; 2:25; 3:3; 3:9; 3:9; 15:4; 18:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2240 matches the Greek ἥκω (hēkō),
which occurs 220 times in 211 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 6:13–2Sa 3:23)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - “but after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, “Where do you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:16 - Now the report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” So it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18 - ‘Bring your father and your households and come to me; I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:5 - Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:9 - “Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:23 - “If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - ‘An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:9 - “When the leprous sore is on a person, then he shall be brought to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:35 - “and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is some plague in the house,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 - Now when Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the border at the Arnon, the boundary of the territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:38 - And Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you! Now, have I any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - “for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - “Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:17 - They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - And he said:

“The LORD came from Sinai,
And dawned on them from Seir;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came with ten thousands of saints;
From His right hand
Came a fiery law for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:3 - So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - And they went to Joshua, to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:9 - So they said to him: “From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - “Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the people of Ammon, saying, “What do you have against me, that you have come to fight against me in my land?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - When the Gazites were told, “Samson has come here!” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They were quiet all night, saying, “In the morning, when it is daylight, we will kill him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:10 - “When you go, you will come to a secure people and a large land. For God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:34 - ‘Now this shall be a sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:36 - ‘And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and say, “Please, put me in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece of bread.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:6 - Now when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the sound of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:7 - So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp!” And they said, “Woe to us! For such a thing has never happened before.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - Then the man said to Eli, “I am he who came from the battle. And I fled today from the battle line.” And he said, “What happened, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12 - And they answered them and said, “Yes, there he is, just ahead of you. Hurry now; for today he came to this city, because there is a sacrifice of the people today on the high place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - “Then you shall go on forward from there and come to the terebinth tree of Tabor. There three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:7 - “And let it be, when these signs come to you, that you do as the occasion demands; for God is with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” But the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:5 - And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:19 - “And when you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid on the day of the deed; and remain by the stone Ezel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - Now the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go to the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:7 - And Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah. So Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:8 - ‘Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3 - And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is opposite Jeshimon, by the road. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:4 - David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had indeed come.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6 - Then Achish called David and said to him, “Surely, as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight. For to this day I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. Nevertheless the lords do not favor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:9 - Then Achish answered and said to David, “I know that you are as good in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:10 - “Now therefore, rise early in the morning with your master’s servants who have come with you.[fn] And as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and all the troops that were with him had come, they told Joab, saying, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”

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