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ἵνα

that

G2443 Strong's Greek
hína Transliteration
/hin'-ah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 664 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, ινα (hína) means “that.” It first appears in Matthew 1:22. Spanning 621 verses in 26 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. Sharing its root, it stands alongside εαυτου, αυτου and ινατι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
albeit
Modern gloss
that
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 G2443 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 →

621
distinct verses
The word appears in 621 distinct verses.
26 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:22
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:22.
Revelation 22:14
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:14.
#29
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 29 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 621 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 276 · 44%
  • Acts 16 · 3%
  • Pauline Epistles 228 · 37%
  • General Epistles 64 · 10%
  • Revelation 37 · 6%

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 621 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 276 verses · 44%
  • Pauline corpus 228 verses · 37%
  • Johannine 194 verses · 31%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 62 verses · 10%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 44 verses · 7%
  • Revelation 37 verses · 6%
  • Hebrews 20 verses · 3%

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 478×, To 72×, See that 2×
  • American Standard Version: That 510×, To 54×, Him 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: That 321×, To 163×, So 16×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 597×, Order that 35×, Order 7×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2443 across 570 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 478×
  • “To” 72×
  • “See that” 2×

Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2443 across 641 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 510×
  • “To” 54×
  • “Him” 3×
  • “It” 3×
  • “End that” 2×
  • “Feast” 2×
  • “He might put to” 2×
  • “Intent that” 2×
  • “Lest” 2×
  • “Pass” 2×
  • “See that” 2×
  • “They might” 2×

Plus 55 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 2 further occurrences.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2443 across 585 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 321×
  • “To” 163×
  • “So” 16×
  • “Order that” 13×
  • “For” 8×
  • “Order” 7×
  • “Then” 6×
  • “Have” 4×
  • “Why” 4×
  • “As” 3×
  • “Or” 3×
  • “Order to” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 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 74 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2443 across 670 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 597×
  • “Order that” 35×
  • “Order” 7×
  • “Order to” 6×
  • “So” 5×
  • “For” 3×
  • “Why” 3×
  • “To” 2×
  • “Was so that” 2×

Plus 10 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. that…

Word origin

Derived from εαυτου (heautoû) (G1438) — himself.

Part of speech: Conjunction TDNT: 08:23,4

Probably from the same as the former part of G1438 (through the demonstrative idea; compare G3588 ); in order that (denoting the purpose or the result ): - albeit because to the intent (that) lest so as (so) that (for) to. Compare G3363 .

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G2443 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἵνα hína Conjunction Matthew 1:22 663
Ἵνα Hína Conjunction Ephesians 6:21 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2443, 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

Shares the same root

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ινα appears 451 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 422 verses in 29 books.

451
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
422
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
29 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 29 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2443) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 422. 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 (G2443) 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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