Strong G2240ἥκω
to come/be present
- Transliteration
- hēkō
- Pronunciation
- hay'-ko
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to arrive that is be present (literally or figuratively): - come.
Detailed definition
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)
[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)
In the Bible
Strong G2240 appears in 26 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- come26
- shall2
- be1
First verses
- Matthew 8:11And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 23:36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
- Matthew 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
- Matthew 24:50The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
- Mark 8:3And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
- Luke 12:46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Luke 13:29And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
- Luke 13:35Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
- Luke 15:27And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
- Luke 19:43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
- John 2:4Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
- John 4:47When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
- John 6:37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
- John 8:42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
- Acts 28:23And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
- Romans 11:26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- Hebrews 10:7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
- Hebrews 10:9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
- Hebrews 10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
- 2 Peter 3:10But 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.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἥκω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.478:)]imperfect ἧκον (see. below): future ἥξω (see. below); Doric dialect ἡξῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.47, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 1.65)] P. (in Doric dialect and [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus more commonly ἵκω))]: all other tenses late; aorist 1 participle ἥξας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.11.5, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.56, 10.609)]: perfect ἧκα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.24, 2nd c.BC: Scymnus Geographus 62)], 1st pers. plural ἥκαμεν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 72.9 (2nd c.BC), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4762 (Egypt, 1st c.AD), _Doric dialect_ ἥκαμες)] falsa lectio in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.225b)], 2nd pers. plural ἥκατε [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“PGrenf.” 2.36.18 (1st c.BC))], 3rd.pers. plural ἥκασι [LXX+NT (LXX.2Ki.20.14, NT.Mark.8.3)]; infinitive ἡκέναι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 6.30 (2nd c.BC))]: pluperfect ἥκεσαν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.1.14)]: —middle, present subjunctive ἥκηται [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.1:)]future ἥξομαι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (variant in 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 2.4)]:—to have come, be present, properly in a perfect sense, with imperfect ἧκον as pluperfect, I had come, and future ἥξω as future perfect, I shall have come, μάλα τηλόθεν ἥκω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.478, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.325, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.12 (ἵκω codices vett.))]: imperfect ἧκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 661, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327c, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.50, etc.)]: future ἥξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 103, +others, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 738, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 265, Oracle texts cited in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54, etc.)]; ἧκε imperative, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1116, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 275, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.25; ἡκέτω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 337:—Constr. mostly with εἰς, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.50, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 3, etc.; παρά τινα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137; πρός τινα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 659; πρὸς δαίμονα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 770; especially in worship, ἥκω πρὸς τὴν κυρίαν Ἶσιν “OGI” 186.6 (Egypt, 1st c.BC),cf. NT.John.6.37; πρὸς πόλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 734)]; ἐπί τινα to set upon, attack, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 336b, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.178)]; but ἥ. ἐπὶ τὸ στράτευμα to have come to fetch the army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.2; οἱ ἐπὶ ταῦθ᾽ ἥκοντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.28; ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 886 (troch.); περὶ σπονδῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.4: with _accusative_, ἥξεις ποταμόν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 717, compare 724, 730; ἥ. δῆμον τὸν Λυρκείου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 271.6, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1; ἥκουσιν αὐτῷ ἄγγελοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.26)]; ἐς ταὐτὸν ἥ. to have come to the same point, to agree, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 748, “Hipp.” 273: with)] adverb of motion, ἥ. ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο[Refs 5th c.BC+ (, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 377, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.58; βῆναι κεῖθεν ὅθενπερ ἥκει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1227: with _neuter_ _pronoun_, αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἥκω παρά σε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310e)]; ἐρωτώμενοι ὅ τι ἥκοιεν for what they had come, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.5.9: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ὁδὸν μακρὰν ἥκειν [prev. author] “Cyr.” 5.5.42: c.)]infinitive, μανθάνειν γὰρ ἥκομεν we are here to learn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 12.)]
2 to have reached a point, ἐς τοσήνδ᾽ ὕβριν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1030; εἰς τοῦτο ἀμαθίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 170; εἰς τοσοῦτον ἀμαθίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 25e; εἰς ὅσον ἡλικίας [prev. author] “Chrm.” 157d, etc.; πρὸς γάμων ἀκμάς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1492; ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ ἥκει; [prev. work] 687)], etc.; Geometry texts, pass through a point, διὰ τῶν πόλων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Autolycus Astronomus “Sph.” 10, compare 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 9.)]
2.b διὰ μάχης, δι᾽ ὀργῆς ἥκειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 475, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 905; compare διά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV.)]
2.c with an adverb followed by genitive, οὕτω πόρρω σοφίας ἥκεις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 294e)]; εὖ ἥκειν τινός to be well off for a thing, have plenty of it, τοῦ βίου, χρημάτων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 5.62; ἑωυτῶν [prev. author] 1.102; θεῶν χρηστῶν [prev. author] 8.111)]; πιθανότητος Demetr.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus cited in 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Dinarcho” 1)]; οὐκ ὁμοίως ἥ. τινός not to be equally well off in respect of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.149)]; πῶς ἀγῶνος ἥκομε; how have we sped in the contest? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 751)]; ὧδε γένους ἥ. τινί to be this degree of kin to him, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 213; ὡς δυνάμεως ἥκεις 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.21.10; ἐς μῆκος εὖ ἥκων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.34: _absolutely_, εὖ ἥκειν)] to be flourishing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30: rarely with _genitive_ only, σὺ δὲ δυνάμιος ἥκεις μεγάλης)] thou art in great power, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.157 (nisi to be read μεγάλως).)]
3 to have come back, returned, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.73; from exile, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.13)]; αὐτίκα ἥξω I shall be back in a moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.9)]; ἧκέ νυν ταχύ come back soon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 275; ἄψορρον ἥξεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1021; ἄψορρον ἥξομεν πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 53.)]
4 with participle, ἥκω φέρων I have come bringing (i.e. with), [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 579, compare 357, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 265, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 22 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 518d; ἧκεν ἄγων [prev. author] “Phd.” 117a; ἕτερόν τι ἥκεις ἕχων [prev. author] “Grg.” 491c, etc.: with)]future participle, like{ἔρχομαι}, ἥκω φράσων, ἀγγελῶν, etc., I am going, I intend to say, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 706, 1075, etc.)]
5 to have come to be, θεοῖς ἔχθιστος ἥκω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1519 (troch.), compare “Aj.” 636 (Lyric poetry), “El.” 1201, etc.)]; take one's origin, ἀπὸ πολιτειῶν τοιούτων ἥκετε, ἐν αἷς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126.)]
II of things, in various uses: of meats, to have come to table, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 132; ὡς τὰ περιφερόμενα ἧκε πρὸς ἡμᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.3)]; of reports, ἐμοὶ ἀγγελίη ἥκει παρὰ βασιλέος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.140.ά, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1177)]; of events, πῆμα ἥκει τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 103, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 606, etc.; ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ ἥκει βίον τελευτή 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1472)]; ἵν᾽ ἥκειτὰ μαντεύματα what they have come to, [Refs ([prev. author] “OT” 953; ὡς αὐτὸν ἥξοι μοῖρα [prev. work] 713)] codices; ἥξει πόλεμος Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54; ἐς αὐτὸν ἥξει τὸ δεινόν [prev. author] 6.77)]; of Time, ἥκει ἦμαρ, νύξ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1301, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 42; ἥκει ὑμῖν ὁ καιρός 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.79; τὸ μέλλον ἥξει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1240.)]
II.2 concern, relate to, ποῖ λόγος ἥκε; to what do the words relate? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 154 (Lyric poetry); εἰς ἔμ᾽ ἥκει.. τὰ πράγματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 919)]; εἰς ἐμὲ τὸ ἐλλεῖπον ἥξει will fall upon me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.13)]: frequently in participle, τὰ εἰς τοὺς κινδύνους ἥκοντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.81)]; τὰ εἰς πλοῦτον ἥ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 392d)]; τὰ πρὸς ἔπαινον, εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν ἥ., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.15.9, 28.17.2, etc.)]
II.3 depend upon, ὅσα τῆς Φωκέων σωτηρίας ἐπὶ τὴν πρεσβείαν ἧκε [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.30; τό γε ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἧκον μέρος 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.21; ὅσα γ᾽ εἰς βούλησιν ἥκειν τὴν ἐμήν 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 4.7.)]
II.4 with infinitive, ἧκέ μοι γένει.. πενθεῖν it has come to me by birth.., my birth lays it on me.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 738, compare “Ichn.” 356)]; καλῶς αὐτοῖς κατθανεῖν ἧκον βίου it being well for them at their age to die, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 291.)]
II.5 with participle, ὃ καὶ νῦν ἥκει γινόμενον which commonly happens even now, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.9.11 codices (variant{γενόμενον}). (Prob. from same root as ἵκω.))]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.478:)]imperfect ἧκον (see. below): future ἥξω (see. below); Doric dialect ἡξῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.47, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 1.65)] P. (in Doric dialect and [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus more commonly ἵκω))]: all other tenses late; aorist 1 participle ἥξας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.11.5, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.56, 10.609)]: perfect ἧκα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.24, 2nd c.BC: Scymnus Geographus 62)], 1st pers. plural ἥκαμεν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 72.9 (2nd c.BC), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4762 (Egypt, 1st c.AD), _Doric dialect_ ἥκαμες)] falsa lectio in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.225b)], 2nd pers. plural ἥκατε [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“PGrenf.” 2.36.18 (1st c.BC))], 3rd.pers. plural ἥκασι [LXX+NT (LXX.2Ki.20.14, NT.Mark.8.3)]; infinitive ἡκέναι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 6.30 (2nd c.BC))]: pluperfect ἥκεσαν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.1.14)]: —middle, present subjunctive ἥκηται [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.1:)]future ἥξομαι[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (variant in 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 2.4)]:—to have come, be present, properly in a perfect sense, with imperfect ἧκον as pluperfect, I had come, and future ἥξω as future perfect, I shall have come, μάλα τηλόθεν ἥκω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.478, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.325, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.12 (ἵκω codices vett.))]: imperfect ἧκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 661, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327c, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.50, etc.)]: future ἥξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 103, +others, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 738, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 265, Oracle texts cited in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54, etc.)]; ἧκε imperative, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1116, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 275, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.25; ἡκέτω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 337:—Constr. mostly with εἰς, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.50, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 3, etc.; παρά τινα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137; πρός τινα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 659; πρὸς δαίμονα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 770; especially in worship, ἥκω πρὸς τὴν κυρίαν Ἶσιν “OGI” 186.6 (Egypt, 1st c.BC),cf. NT.John.6.37; πρὸς πόλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 734)]; ἐπί τινα to set upon, attack, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 336b, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.178)]; but ἥ. ἐπὶ τὸ στράτευμα to have come to fetch the army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.2; οἱ ἐπὶ ταῦθ᾽ ἥκοντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.28; ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 886 (troch.); περὶ σπονδῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.4: with _accusative_, ἥξεις ποταμόν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 717, compare 724, 730; ἥ. δῆμον τὸν Λυρκείου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 271.6, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1; ἥκουσιν αὐτῷ ἄγγελοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.26)]; ἐς ταὐτὸν ἥ. to have come to the same point, to agree, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 748, “Hipp.” 273: with)] adverb of motion, ἥ. ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο[Refs 5th c.BC+ (, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 377, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.58; βῆναι κεῖθεν ὅθενπερ ἥκει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1227: with _neuter_ _pronoun_, αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἥκω παρά σε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310e)]; ἐρωτώμενοι ὅ τι ἥκοιεν for what they had come, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.5.9: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ὁδὸν μακρὰν ἥκειν [prev. author] “Cyr.” 5.5.42: c.)]infinitive, μανθάνειν γὰρ ἥκομεν we are here to learn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 12.)]
2 to have reached a point, ἐς τοσήνδ᾽ ὕβριν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1030; εἰς τοῦτο ἀμαθίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 170; εἰς τοσοῦτον ἀμαθίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 25e; εἰς ὅσον ἡλικίας [prev. author] “Chrm.” 157d, etc.; πρὸς γάμων ἀκμάς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1492; ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ ἥκει; [prev. work] 687)], etc.; Geometry texts, pass through a point, διὰ τῶν πόλων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Autolycus Astronomus “Sph.” 10, compare 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 9.)]
2.b διὰ μάχης, δι᾽ ὀργῆς ἥκειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 475, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 905; compare διά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV.)]
2.c with an adverb followed by genitive, οὕτω πόρρω σοφίας ἥκεις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 294e)]; εὖ ἥκειν τινός to be well off for a thing, have plenty of it, τοῦ βίου, χρημάτων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 5.62; ἑωυτῶν [prev. author] 1.102; θεῶν χρηστῶν [prev. author] 8.111)]; πιθανότητος Demetr.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus cited in 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Dinarcho” 1)]; οὐκ ὁμοίως ἥ. τινός not to be equally well off in respect of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.149)]; πῶς ἀγῶνος ἥκομε; how have we sped in the contest? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 751)]; ὧδε γένους ἥ. τινί to be this degree of kin to him, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 213; ὡς δυνάμεως ἥκεις 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.21.10; ἐς μῆκος εὖ ἥκων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.34: _absolutely_, εὖ ἥκειν)] to be flourishing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30: rarely with _genitive_ only, σὺ δὲ δυνάμιος ἥκεις μεγάλης)] thou art in great power, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.157 (nisi to be read μεγάλως).)]
3 to have come back, returned, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.73; from exile, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.13)]; αὐτίκα ἥξω I shall be back in a moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.9)]; ἧκέ νυν ταχύ come back soon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 275; ἄψορρον ἥξεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1021; ἄψορρον ἥξομεν πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 53.)]
4 with participle, ἥκω φέρων I have come bringing (i.e. with), [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 579, compare 357, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 265, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 22 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 518d; ἧκεν ἄγων [prev. author] “Phd.” 117a; ἕτερόν τι ἥκεις ἕχων [prev. author] “Grg.” 491c, etc.: with)]future participle, like{ἔρχομαι}, ἥκω φράσων, ἀγγελῶν, etc., I am going, I intend to say, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 706, 1075, etc.)]
5 to have come to be, θεοῖς ἔχθιστος ἥκω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1519 (troch.), compare “Aj.” 636 (Lyric poetry), “El.” 1201, etc.)]; take one's origin, ἀπὸ πολιτειῶν τοιούτων ἥκετε, ἐν αἷς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126.)]
II of things, in various uses: of meats, to have come to table, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 132; ὡς τὰ περιφερόμενα ἧκε πρὸς ἡμᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.3)]; of reports, ἐμοὶ ἀγγελίη ἥκει παρὰ βασιλέος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.140.ά, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1177)]; of events, πῆμα ἥκει τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 103, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 606, etc.; ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ ἥκει βίον τελευτή 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1472)]; ἵν᾽ ἥκειτὰ μαντεύματα what they have come to, [Refs ([prev. author] “OT” 953; ὡς αὐτὸν ἥξοι μοῖρα [prev. work] 713)] codices; ἥξει πόλεμος Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54; ἐς αὐτὸν ἥξει τὸ δεινόν [prev. author] 6.77)]; of Time, ἥκει ἦμαρ, νύξ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1301, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 42; ἥκει ὑμῖν ὁ καιρός 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.79; τὸ μέλλον ἥξει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1240.)]
II.2 concern, relate to, ποῖ λόγος ἥκε; to what do the words relate? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 154 (Lyric poetry); εἰς ἔμ᾽ ἥκει.. τὰ πράγματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 919)]; εἰς ἐμὲ τὸ ἐλλεῖπον ἥξει will fall upon me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.13)]: frequently in participle, τὰ εἰς τοὺς κινδύνους ἥκοντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.81)]; τὰ εἰς πλοῦτον ἥ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 392d)]; τὰ πρὸς ἔπαινον, εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν ἥ., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.15.9, 28.17.2, etc.)]
II.3 depend upon, ὅσα τῆς Φωκέων σωτηρίας ἐπὶ τὴν πρεσβείαν ἧκε [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.30; τό γε ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἧκον μέρος 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.21; ὅσα γ᾽ εἰς βούλησιν ἥκειν τὴν ἐμήν 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 4.7.)]
II.4 with infinitive, ἧκέ μοι γένει.. πενθεῖν it has come to me by birth.., my birth lays it on me.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 738, compare “Ichn.” 356)]; καλῶς αὐτοῖς κατθανεῖν ἧκον βίου it being well for them at their age to die, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 291.)]
II.5 with participle, ὃ καὶ νῦν ἥκει γινόμενον which commonly happens even now, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.9.11 codices (variant{γενόμενον}). (Prob. from same root as ἵκω.))]