to come/be present
Heko marks a person’s arrival or presence and, for times and events, their impending occurrence.
The verb most often marks people arriving, coming to someone, or being present; it also describes a day, hour, goal, days, or plagues as coming or occurring. Present, perfect, imperfect, future, and subjunctive forms place that arrival or occurrence in differing clause settings without establishing separate lexical meanings.
Senses in use
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Arrival or presence of persons · dominant
The forms describe persons reaching or being at a place or before someone: in Acts 28:23 the APB renders that many "came to him at his lodging," while in Luke 15:27 a brother "has come." In John 8:42, the first-person present form occurs in the speaker’s statement that he "came out from God and ... am present"; future forms likewise concern people who will come, as in Matthew 8:11 and Revelation 3:9.
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Occurrence of times, outcomes, or calamities · common
With non-personal subjects, the verb marks what is due to occur or arrive. In 2 Peter 3:10 the APB renders "the day of the Lord will come," in John 2:4 it says an hour "has not yet arrived," and in Revelation 18:8 plagues "will come in one day." Matthew 24:14 similarly places the goal after the gospel’s proclamation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses forms of "come," and in completed or present situations also uses "has come," "arrived," or "am present." Those renderings confirm the clauses’ overall arrival or occurrence rather than assigning a fixed English equivalent in every verse.