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ἐκεῖνος

that one

G1565 Strong's Greek
ekeînos Transliteration
/ek-i'-nos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 240 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

At its core, εκεινος (ekeînos) means “that one.” The King James Version’s older “same” has given way to “that” in modern versions, as the renderings breakdown shows. Spanning 234 verses in 17 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in John (30% of all occurrences). It first appears in Matthew 3:1. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
he
Modern gloss
that one
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1565 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

234
distinct verses
The word appears in 234 distinct verses.
17 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:1.
Revelation 11:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 11:13.
#67
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 67 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 234 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 172 · 74%
  • Acts 21 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 21 · 9%
  • General Epistles 18 · 8%
  • Revelation 2 · 1%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 234 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 172 verses · 74%
  • Johannine 79 verses · 34%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 52 verses · 22%
  • Pauline corpus 21 verses · 9%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 8 verses · 3%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 1%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: That 92×, Those 38×, He 36×
  • American Standard Version: That 109×, He 36×, Those 33×
  • Berean Standard Bible: That 87×, Those 28×, He 23×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 117×, One 48×, Those 46×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1565 across 245 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 92×
  • “Those” 38×
  • “He” 36×
  • “Same” 21×
  • “They” 14×
  • “Them” 8×
  • “Him” 6×
  • “His” 5×
  • “She” 4×
  • “Is that” 2×
  • “State of that” 2×
  • “Their” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1565 across 245 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 109×
  • “He” 36×
  • “Those” 33×
  • “They” 13×
  • “Them” 7×
  • “Him” 6×
  • “His” 5×
  • “Same” 5×
  • “The” 5×
  • “Are those” 2×
  • “He that” 2×
  • “Is that” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1565 across 185 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 87×
  • “Those” 28×
  • “He” 23×
  • “They” 7×
  • “Him” 6×
  • “Them” 5×
  • “Very” 5×
  • “She” 4×
  • “His” 3×
  • “This” 3×
  • “The” 2×
  • “Their” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 54 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1565 across 246 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 117×
  • “One” 48×
  • “Those” 46×
  • “Ones” 8×
  • “He” 7×
  • “Them” 5×
  • “She” 3×
  • “This” 3×
  • “They” 2×

Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. he, she it, etc.

Word origin

Derived from εκει (ekeî) (G1563) — there.

From G1563 ; that one (or [neuter] thing); often intensified by the article prefixed : - he it the other (same) selfsame that (same very) X their X them they this those. See also G3778 .

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 21 distinct written forms G1565 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐκεῖνος ekeînos Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 18:26 50
ἐκείνῃ ekeínē Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 7:22 38
ἐκείνου ekeínou Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:45 22
ἐκείνης ekeínēs Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 8:28 19
ἐκείναις ekeínais Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 3:1 15
ἐκεῖνοι ekeînoi Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 22:10 15
ἐκεῖνον ekeînon Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 13:44 11
ἐκείνην ekeínēn Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 9:26 10
ἐκείνη ekeínē Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 3:24 9
ἐκείνῳ ekeínō Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 11:25 9
ἐκείνων ekeínōn Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 25:19 8
ἐκείνοις ekeínois Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 13:11 8
ἐκεῖνός ekeînós Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 1:33 8
ἐκείνους ekeínous Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 22:7 5
ἐκεῖναι ekeînai Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 24:22 4
ἐκεῖνο ekeîno Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Acts 1:19 3
ἐκείνας ekeínas Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Hebrews 8:10 2
ἐκεῖνα ekeîna Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Acts 20:2 1
ἐκεῖναί ekeînaí Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine John 5:39 1
ἐκεῖνοί ekeînoí Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 4:20 1
Ἐκεῖνο Ekeîno Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 24:43 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1565, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εκεινος appears 576 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 546 verses in 31 books.

576
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
546
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
31 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1565) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 546. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1565) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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