Greek verb · G1684
ἐμβαίνω
embainoem-ba'-hee-no
to climb
16 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: embaínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1684is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1684
to walk on, i.e. embark (aboard a vessel), reach (a pool)
The King James renders it: come (get) into, enter (into), go (up) into, step in, take ship.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
embaino is rendered "to climb". It stands 16 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:23When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.
Matthew 8:23ἐμβάντι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having climbed8
- they climbed2
- to climb2
- climbed1
- having climbed into1
- He climbed1
- when climbing1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐμβὰς5
- ἐμβάντα2
- ἐμβῆναι2
- ἐνέβη2
- ἐνέβησαν2
- ἐμβαίνοντος1
- ἐμβάντες1
- ἐμβάντι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular5V-2AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-2AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-2AAN
- verb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular2V-2AAP-ASM
- verb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-2AAP-DSM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-2AAP-NPM
- verb · present active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1V-PAP-GSM
Matthew
five uses
When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.
- ἐμβάντιembantiverb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed
Jesus got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own town.
- ἐμβὰςembasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed
Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while all the people stood on the shore.
- ἐμβάνταembantaverb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed into
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.
- ἐμβῆναιembenaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to climb
After Jesus had dismissed the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
- ἐνέβηenebeverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He climbed
Mark
five uses
Once again Jesus began to teach beside the sea, and such a large crowd gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people crowded along the shore.
- ἐμβάνταembantaverb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed
As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by the demons begged to go with Him.
- ἐμβαίνοντοςembainontosverb · present active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: when climbing
Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.
- ἐμβῆναιembenaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to climb
He got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
- ἐμβὰςembasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed
And He left them, got back into the boat, and crossed to the other side.
- ἐμβὰςembasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed
Luke
three uses
Jesus got into the boat belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore. And sitting down, He taught the people from the boat.
- ἐμβὰςembasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having climbed
One day Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat with them and set out.
- ἐνέβηenebeverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: climbed
Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.
- ἐμβὰςembasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having climbed
John
three uses
got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet gone out to them.
- ἐμβάντεςembantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having climbed
So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.
- ἐνέβησανenebesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they climbed
Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.
- ἐνέβησανenebesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they climbed
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.