For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ἑαυτοῦ
Vocabulary form:
eJautou:, -h:V
Definition:
sg: of himself, herself, itself;
pl: of themselves
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
319
GK:
1571
Root:
eJautou
Notes:
Because of the word's meaning, it can never occur in the nominative; so for this word the lexical form is the genitive singular. It follows the same inflectional pattern as aujtovV. eJautou can also be translated in the plural as a first ("ourselves") or second ("yourselves") person.
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 22:17 | Then he took a cup, and after he had given thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd). |
| Luke 22:23 | And they began to question one (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) another, which of them it might be who would do this. |
| Luke 23:2 | And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man trying to mislead our nation, opposing the payment of taxes to Caesar, and claiming himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) to be Christ, a king.” |
| Luke 23:28 | Turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves (heautas | ἑαυτάς | acc pl fem2nd) and for your children. |
| Luke 23:35 | The people stood by, watching. The rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd), if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!” |
| Luke 24:12 | |
| Luke 24:27 | Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) in all the Scriptures. |
| John 5:18 | This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he not only used to break the Sabbath, but he also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) equal with God. |
| John 5:19 | Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise. |
| John 5:26 | For as the Father has life in himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), so also has he granted the Son to have life in himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd); |
| John 5:42 | but I know you — I know that you do not have the love of God in you (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc2nd). |
| John 6:53 | Jesus therefore said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no life in you (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc2nd). |
| John 6:61 | But Jesus, aware that his disciples were grumbling about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? |
| John 7:18 | The one who speaks on his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own authority seeks his own honor; but the one who seeks the honor of the one who sent him is truthful, and in him there is nothing false. |
| John 7:35 | Then the Jews said to one (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) another, “Where is this man about to go that we will not find him? Surely he is not going to go to our people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? |
| John 8:22 | So the Jews said, “Surely he is not going to kill himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd), is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” |
| John 9:21 | but how it is that he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him, he is an adult. He will speak for himself.” (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) |
| John 11:33 | When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he was deeply moved in his (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) spirit and greatly distressed. |
| John 11:38 | Then Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying across it. |
| John 11:51 | He did not say this on his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own, but being high priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus was about to die for the nation, |
| John 11:55 | Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country prior to the Passover to purify themselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd). |
| John 12:8 | For you will always have the poor with you (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc2nd), but you will not always have me.” |
| John 12:19 | The Pharisees therefore said to one (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) another, “You see, you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!” |
| John 13:4 | got up from the table, laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) waist. |
| John 15:4 | Abide in me and I will abide in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit by itself (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg neut3rd), unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. |
| John 16:13 | But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd), but will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you things yet to come. |
| John 17:13 | But now I am on my way to you, and I am saying these things while still in the world that they may have my joy made complete in themselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd). |
| John 19:7 | The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.” |
| John 19:12 | From that point on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews kept shouting out, saying, “If you release this man, you are no ‘Friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.” |
| John 19:17 | who, carrying the cross by himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), went out to what was called “The Place of the Skull,” in Hebrew, “Golgotha.” |
| John 19:24 | So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it” — that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says, “They divided my garments among themselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd), and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things. |
| John 21:1 | After this Jesus again revealed himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. |
| John 21:7 | Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his outer garment (for he was wearing nothing underneath), and jumped into the sea. |
| Acts 1:3 | to whom also he presented himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) alive after his passion by many proofs, being seen by them over a period of forty days and telling them what concerns the kingdom of God. |
| Acts 5:35 | And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) about these men, what you intend to do. |
| Acts 5:36 | For before these days there rose up Theudas, saying that he himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) was someone, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all, as many as followed him, were dispersed, and the movement came to nothing. |
| Acts 7:21 | and when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh rescued him and brought him up for herself (heautē | ἑαυτῇ | dat sg fem3rd) as a son. |
| Acts 8:9 | Now there was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic in the city and amazing the people of Samaria, saying that he himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) was someone great. |
| Acts 8:34 | And in answer the eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) or about someone else?” |
| Acts 10:17 | Now while Peter was perplexed within himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate |
| Acts 12:11 | When Peter came to himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.” |
| Acts 13:46 | Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd) worthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the Gentiles. |
| Acts 15:29 | that you abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd) from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.” |
| Acts 16:27 | When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd), for he thought the prisoners had escaped. |
| Acts 19:31 | And also some of the Asiarchs, being friendly to him, sent to him and urged him not to commit himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) to the theater. |
| Acts 20:28 | Watch out for yourselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc2nd) and for all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with the blood of his own Son. |
| Acts 21:11 | He came to us and, taking Paul’s belt, he tied his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says this: ‘This is how the Jews will tie up in Jerusalem the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” |
| Acts 21:23 | So, then, do what we tell you. There are with us four men who have taken upon themselves (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) a vow. |
| Acts 23:12 | When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) by an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. |
| Acts 23:14 | These went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc1st) by an oath to taste no food until we have killed Paul. |
Mnemonics
ἑαυτοῦ mnemonic
HEY! OUT TO the shack that is OF THEMSELVES!
ἑαυτοῦ
Hey you two, remember it's every man for himself