To come to
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G2658 describes coming to a destination and can move from ordinary travel to reaching maturity, seeing a promise fulfilled, or attaining resurrection hope. The destination can be a city, person, historical moment, communal unity, or hoped-for outcome, so physical arrival and theological attainment must remain related by imagery but distinct in meaning.
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G2658 describes coming to a destination and can move from ordinary travel to reaching maturity, seeing a promise fulfilled, or attaining resurrection hope. The destination can be a city, person, historical moment, communal unity, or hoped-for outcome, so physical arrival and theological attainment must remain related by imagery but distinct in meaning.
The BSB source-word alignment has 13 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [Paul] came (1), and came (1), came (1), came down (1), has come (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 16:1. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (9), 1 Corinthians (2), Ephesians (1), Philippians (1).
G2658 describes coming to a destination and can move from ordinary travel to reaching maturity, seeing a promise fulfilled, or attaining resurrection hope. The destination can be a city, person, historical moment, communal unity, or hoped-for outcome, so physical arrival and theological attainment must remain related by imagery but distinct in meaning. In Acts.
16. 1, Paul arrives in Derbe and Lystra and encounters Timothy, whose local reputation and family setting become part of the next missionary stage. In Eph. 4. 13, christs gifts equip the saints until all together reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son and grow toward His mature stature. G2658 opens teaching on destinations that shape faithful movement, from Paul arriving where he meets Timothy to the church reaching shared maturity and believers pressing toward resurrection hope.
It corrects instant-maturity expectations and triumphal language that treats spiritual attainment as private superiority, predictable timing, or freedom from weakness and uncertainty. G2658 keeps arrival both ordinary and hopeful: Paul comes to Lystra and finds Timothy within an unfolding missionary journey, Ephesians looks toward all believers reaching unity and mature knowledge of the Son, and Paul longs somehow to attain the resurrection from the dead.
Travel reaches places; Christian formation and resurrection depend on Gods gifts, communal growth, and persevering hope. For G2658, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable. G2658 does not promise a timetable for maturity, turn unity into enforced sameness, or suggest that resurrection is earned by achievement, suffering, travel, or superior spiritual effort.
G2658 appears across passages that develop journey, communal maturity, fulfilled ages, resurrection hope, vocation, and patient arrival. For G2658, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
Paul arrives in Derbe and Lystra and encounters Timothy, whose local reputation and family setting become part of the next missionary stage.
Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
Christs gifts equip the saints until all together reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son and grow toward His mature stature.
And so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Paul shares Christs sufferings in hope that he may somehow attain the resurrection from the dead, speaking as one who still presses forward.
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Greek word. To reach a destination or goal; metaphorically, to attain spiritual maturity or fulfillment in Christ.
To reach a destination or goal; metaphorically, to attain spiritual maturity or fulfillment in Christ.
to come to, arrive at: before εἰς, with accusative loc., Act.16:1 18:19, 24 21:7 25:13 (see M, Pr., 132) Act.27:12 28:13; before ἀντικρύ, with genitive, Act.20:15. Metaphorical, before εἰς, with accusative of person(s), 1Co.10:11 14:36; id. with accusative of thing(s), to attain to: Act.26:7, Eph.4:13, Php.3:11.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
13 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 13 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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καταντάω is built from these roots:
G2658 keeps arrival both ordinary and hopeful: Paul comes to Lystra and finds Timothy within an unfolding missionary journey, Ephesians looks toward all believers reaching unity and mature knowledge of the Son, and Paul longs somehow to attain the resurrection from the dead. Travel reaches places; Christian formation and resurrection depend on Gods gifts, communal growth, and persevering hope.
G2658 describes coming to a destination and can move from ordinary travel to reaching maturity, seeing a promise fulfilled, or attaining resurrection hope. The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: Acts. 16. 1 shows that paul arrives in Derbe and Lystra and encounters Timothy, whose local reputation and family setting become part of the next missionary stage, while Eph.
4. 13 Shows that christs gifts equip the saints until all together reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son and grow toward His mature stature. Php. 3. 11 adds that paul shares Christs sufferings in hope that he may somehow attain the resurrection from the dead, speaking as one who still presses forward. G2658 opens teaching on destinations that shape faithful movement, from Paul arriving where he meets Timothy to the church reaching shared maturity and believers pressing toward resurrection hope.
It corrects instant-maturity expectations and triumphal language that treats spiritual attainment as private superiority, predictable timing, or freedom from weakness and uncertainty. A church teaching G2658 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support.
G2658 does not promise a timetable for maturity, turn unity into enforced sameness, or suggest that resurrection is earned by achievement, suffering, travel, or superior spiritual effort.
Acts.16.1
G2658 is a Greek verb for coming to or arriving at a point; with abstract destinations it can express reaching or attaining a state, goal, or promised outcome.
Scripture traces journeys toward promised land, temple, exile, return, and restored presence. The New Testament locates the churchs path in Christ, Spirit-given gifts, shared maturity, mission, and final resurrection while retaining the patience and uncertainty of travelers who have not yet arrived.