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Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: εἰσέρχομαι; fut.; εἰσελεύσομαι; εἰσέρχομαι; aor.; εἰσῆλθον; εἰσέρχομαι; pf.; εἰσελήλυθα

Related lemmas: έρχομαι

Sense 1: to move into, to come into, to go into, to enter

Semantic entry: 15.93

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Come/Go Into

Definition: to move into a space, either two-dimensional or three-dimensional

Notes: εἰσέρχομαι[a] is also used in the NT in speaking of the entrance of demons or Satan into animate beings, for example, λέγοντες, Πέμψον ἡμᾶς εἰς τοὺς χοίρους, ἵνα εἰς αὐτοὺς εἰσέλθωμεν saying, Send us into the swine so we may enter them RV MRK 5:12 · LV MRK 5:12 · Read together MRK 5:12. In a number of languages one cannot speak of such supernatural beings ‘entering’ an object. It may be necessary to use such expressions as ‘to grab’ or ‘to control’ or ‘to command.’

MAT 2:21: RV MAT 2:21 · LV MAT 2:21 · Read together MAT 2:21

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OET-RV MAT 2:21

21 So Yosef packed up and took the child and his mother and went back to Yisrael.

OET-LV MAT 2:21

21 And he having _been _raised, took the little _child and the mother of _him, and came _in into the_land of _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl).

MAT 6:6: RV MAT 6:6 · LV MAT 6:6 · Read together MAT 6:6

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OET-RV MAT 6:6

6 Instead, when you pray, go into a private room and shut the door, then pray to your father who’s not visible to you. Then your father who sees everything will reward you.

OET-LV MAT 6:6

6 But you whenever you _may _be _praying, come _in into the private _room of _you and having _shut the door of _you, pray to _the father of _you, who is in the secret, and the father of _you, the one seeing in the secret, will _be _giving _back to _you.

All 148 recorded passages for this sense

CO1: RV CO1 14:23–24 · LV CO1 14:23–24 · Read together CO1 14:23–24

JAM: RV JAM 2:2 · RV JAM 5:4 · LV JAM 2:2 · LV JAM 5:4 · Read together JAM 2:2 · Read together JAM 5:4

REV: RV REV 3:20 · RV REV 11:11 · RV REV 15:8 · RV REV 21:27 · RV REV 22:14 · LV REV 3:20 · LV REV 11:11 · LV REV 15:8 · LV REV 21:27 · LV REV 22:14 · Read together REV 3:20 · Read together REV 11:11 · Read together REV 15:8 · Read together REV 21:27 · Read together REV 22:14

Sense 2: to happen, to come into

Semantic entry: 13.110

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: Happen

Definition: to happen, with the focus upon the initial aspect

Notes: In some languages it may be impossible to speak of ‘sin coming’ (RV ROM 5:12 · LV ROM 5:12 · Read together ROM 5:12), and therefore one may have to restructure the relationships, for example, ‘people began to sin.’

ROM 5:12: RV ROM 5:12 · LV ROM 5:12 · Read together ROM 5:12

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12 Sin came into the world through one man, and death came as a result of sin, so death spread to everyone because everyone has disobeyed God.

OET-LV ROM 5:12

12 Because _of this, as by one man the sin into the world came _in, and by the sin the death, also thus to all people the death passed _through, because/for that all sinned,

ROM 11:25: RV ROM 11:25 · LV ROM 11:25 · Read together ROM 11:25

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OET-RV ROM 11:25

25 Brothers and sisters, I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, otherwise you might end up becoming proud: There’s a partial hardening coming to the Yehudim (Jews) until the fullness of the non-Jews comes,

OET-LV ROM 11:25

25 For/Because not I _am _wanting you _all to _be _not _knowing, brothers, the mystery this, in _order _that not you _all _may _be in yourselves prudent, that a_hardening in part to_ the _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl) has _become, until of _which the fullness of _the pagans may _come _in,

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: RV ROM 5:12 · RV ROM 11:25 · LV ROM 5:12 · LV ROM 11:25 · Read together ROM 5:12 · Read together ROM 11:25

HEB: RV HEB 10:5 · LV HEB 10:5 · Read together HEB 10:5

Sense 3: to begin, to commence

Semantic entry: 68.7

Semantic domains: Aspect

Subdomains: Begin, Start

Definition: to begin, with the focus upon the initial stages of an activity

Notes: In the first clause of RV LUK 9:46 · LV LUK 9:46 · Read together LUK 9:46, it is clear that the event is to be found in the noun διαλογισμός, while the verb εἰσῆλθεν merely contributes an aspect of the event.

LUK 9:46: RV LUK 9:46 · LV LUK 9:46 · Read together LUK 9:46

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46 Then the apprentices got themselves into a discussion about which of them might hopefully be considered the greatest.

OET-LV LUK 9:46

46 And a_speculation came _in among them, who wishfully might _be the_ greater _one of _them.

Sense 4: to begin to experience, to come into an experience, to attain

Semantic entry: 90.70

Semantic domains: Case

Subdomains: Experiencer

Definition: to begin to experience an event or state

MAT 5:20: RV MAT 5:20 · LV MAT 5:20 · Read together MAT 5:20

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20 Let me tell all of you, unless you’re more godly than the religious teachers and the Farisaios, there’s no way that you’ll get to enter the heavenly kingdom.

OET-LV MAT 5:20

20 For/Because I _am _saying to _you _all that if the righteousness of _you _all not may _be _plentiful more of _the scribes and Farisaios_party, by _no _means you _all _may_ not _come _in into the kingdom of _the heavens.

MAT 7:13: RV MAT 7:13 · LV MAT 7:13 · Read together MAT 7:13

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OET-RV MAT 7:13

13 “Come in through the narrow gate, because there’s a big gateway and a wide path that leads away to destruction, and lots of people go that way.

OET-LV MAT 7:13

13 Come _in through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is broad which leading _away to the destruction, and many are the ones coming _in through it,

All 30 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 9:43 · RV MRK 9:45 · RV MRK 9:47 · RV MRK 10:15 · RV MRK 10:23–25 · LV MRK 9:43 · LV MRK 9:45 · LV MRK 9:47 · LV MRK 10:15 · LV MRK 10:23–25 · Read together MRK 9:43 · Read together MRK 9:45 · Read together MRK 9:47 · Read together MRK 10:15 · Read together MRK 10:23–25

LUK: RV LUK 11:52 · RV LUK 13:24 · RV LUK 18:17 · RV LUK 18:25 · RV LUK 22:40 · RV LUK 22:46 · RV LUK 24:26 · LV LUK 11:52 · LV LUK 13:24 · LV LUK 18:17 · LV LUK 18:25 · LV LUK 22:40 · LV LUK 22:46 · LV LUK 24:26 · Read together LUK 11:52 · Read together LUK 13:24 · Read together LUK 18:17 · Read together LUK 18:25 · Read together LUK 22:40 · Read together LUK 22:46 · Read together LUK 24:26

JHN: RV JHN 3:5 · RV JHN 4:38 · LV JHN 3:5 · LV JHN 4:38 · Read together JHN 3:5 · Read together JHN 4:38

ACT: RV ACT 14:22 · LV ACT 14:22 · Read together ACT 14:22

Sense 5: to live with, to live among

Semantic entry: 41.24

Semantic domains: Behavior and Related States

Subdomains: Behavior, Conduct

Definition: (idiom, literally: to go in and to go out) to live or to conduct oneself in relationship to some community or group

Notes: The semantic focus of this idiom in RV ACT 1:21 · LV ACT 1:21 · Read together ACT 1:21 appears to be the manner in which a person conducts himself in relationship to others, but it is possible to imply a certain amount of movement. For example, in RV ACT 1:21 · LV ACT 1:21 · Read together ACT 1:21, it is possible to translate ‘during the whole time the Lord Jesus travelled about with us.’

Collocations: εἰσέρχομαι καὶ ἐξέρχομαι

ACT 1:21: RV ACT 1:21 · LV ACT 1:21 · Read together ACT 1:21

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OET-RV ACT 1:21

21 So now it’s appropriate for one of the men that has been with us for the whole time that the master Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was interacting with us,

OET-LV ACT 1:21

21 Therefore it _is _fitting of _the men having _come _together with _us, at all the_time that the master Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) came _in and came _out with us,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

εἰσέρχομαι

Form 1

Sense 1: to move into, to come into, to go into, to enter

Sense 2: to happen, to come into

Sense 3: to begin, to commence

Sense 4: to begin to experience, to come into an experience, to attain

Sense 5: to live with, to live among