2001 Translation

EMA, ema

Sounds Like: eh-MAH

Translations: (to) myself, (for) myself

From the root: ἘΓΩ

Part of Speech: Pronoun

Explanation: This word is a contracted or shortened form of the reflexive pronoun 'ἐμαυτῷ' (emautō), meaning 'to myself' or 'for myself'. It is used when the action of the verb is directed back to the speaker. It functions as a dative case, indicating the indirect object or benefit.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G1683 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 24:20, 29:7

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 22:8

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 31:31, 31:43
• 1 Kings — 21:3, 21:4
• Psalms — 49:10
• Proverbs — 8:19, 23:16
• Isaiah — 66:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 15:31
• John — 10:14, 10:27, 16:15, 17:10
• Philemon — 1:12
• 3 John — 1:4

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΓΩ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἘΓ — I, me
• ἘΓΩ — I, me
• ἘΓΩΓ — I, me, I myself, indeed I
• ἘΓΩΓ' — I, me
• ἘΓΩΓΕ — I, I myself, indeed I, as for me
• ἘΓΩΓΕΤΟ — I, I indeed, I for my part, I myself
• ἘΜΕ — me
• ἘΜΟΙ — (to) me, (for) me, (by) me, (with) me
• ἘΜΟΥ — (of) me, my

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