Greek verb · G1904
ἐπέρχομαι
eperchomaiep-er'-khom-ahee
to come to, arrive, come on; to come upon
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epérchomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1904is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1904
to supervene, i.e. arrive, occur, impend, attack, (figuratively) influence
The King James renders it: come (in, upon).
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
eperchomai is rendered "to come to, arrive, come on; to come upon". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to come to, arrive, come on".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:35ἐπελεύσεται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to come to, arrive, come on, and to come upon.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to come to, arrive, come onbefore ἀπό | Tagged as
| WhereActs 14:19Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds… |
| to come upon(as in Hom.): of calamities, Luk.21:26, Act.8:24 13:40, Jas.5:1; of an enemy, Luk.11:22; of the Holy Spirit, Luk.1:35, Act.1:8, [in LXX:... | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you… |
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 9, 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
- ἐπέλθῃ2
- ἐπελεύσεται1
- ἐπελθόντος1
- ἐπελθὼν1
- ἐπερχομέναις1
- ἐπερχομένοις1
- ἐπερχομένων1
- Ἐπῆλθαν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-2AAS-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-2AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1V-2AAP-GSN
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-2AAP-NSM
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FDI-3S
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1V-PNP-DPF
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-PNP-DPM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1V-PNP-GPM
Luke
three uses
The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
- ἐπελεύσεταιepeleusetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will come
But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.
- ἐπελθὼνepelthonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having come upon
Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
- ἐπερχομένωνeperchomenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: is coming
Acts
four uses
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
- ἐπελθόντοςepelthontosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: when was coming
Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
- ἐπέλθῃepeltheverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may come
Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:
- ἐπέλθῃepeltheverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may come about
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
- Ἐπῆλθανepelthanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: Came
Ephesians
one use
in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
- ἐπερχομένοιςeperchomenoisverb · present middle or passive form, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: coming
James
one use
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- ἐπερχομέναιςeperchomenaisverb · present middle or passive form, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: coming
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.