ο
the
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Article
- The Greek definite article (“the”), agreeing with its noun in case, number, and gender.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
34 verses where G3588 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of 1 Thessalonians. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Thessalonians
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2 τῷ τῶν art dat sg masc art gen pl fem We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 τοῦ τῆς τοῦ τῆς τῆς τῆς τοῦ τοῦ art gen sg neut art gen sg fem art gen sg masc art gen sg fem art gen sg fem art gen sg fem art gen sg masc art gen sg masc remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:4 τοῦ τὴν art gen sg masc art acc sg fem We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:6 τοῦ τὸν art gen sg masc art acc sg masc You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:8 ὁ τοῦ τῇ τῇ ἡ ἡ τὸν art nom sg masc art gen sg masc art dat sg fem art dat sg fem art nom sg fem art nom sg fem art acc sg masc For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we need not to say anything.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 τὸν τῶν art acc sg masc art gen pl neut For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
- 1 Thessalonians 1:10 τὸν τῶν τῶν τὸν τῆς τῆς art acc sg masc art gen pl masc art gen pl masc art acc sg masc art gen sg fem art gen sg fem and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:2 τῷ τὸ τοῦ art dat sg masc art acc sg neut art gen sg masc but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Gospel of God in much conflict.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4 τοῦ τὸ τῷ τὰς art gen sg masc art acc sg neut art dat sg masc art acc pl fem But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:8 τὸ τοῦ τὰς art acc sg neut art gen sg masc art acc pl fem Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9 τὸν τὸν τὸ τὸ τοῦ art acc sg masc art acc sg masc art acc sg neut art acc sg neut art gen sg masc For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:12 τὸ τοῦ τοῦ τὴν art acc sg neut art gen sg masc art gen sg masc art acc sg fem to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 τῷ τοῦ τοῖς art dat sg masc art gen sg masc art dat pl masc For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14 τῶν τοῦ τῶν τῇ τὰ τῶν τῶν art gen pl fem art gen sg masc art gen pl fem art dat sg fem art acc pl neut art gen pl masc art gen pl masc For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 τῶν τὸν τοὺς art gen pl masc art acc sg masc art acc pl masc who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:19 τοῦ τῇ art gen sg masc art dat sg fem For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2 τὸν τοῦ τῷ τοῦ τὸ τῆς art acc sg masc art gen sg masc art dat sg neut art gen sg masc art acc sg neut art gen sg fem and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:7 τῇ τῆς art dat sg fem art gen sg fem for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:9 τῷ τῇ τοῦ art dat sg masc art dat sg fem art gen sg masc For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:10 τὸ τὸ τὰ τῆς art acc sg neut art acc sg neut art acc pl neut art gen sg fem night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 τὸ τὰς τοῦ τῇ τοῦ τῶν art acc sg neut art acc pl fem art gen sg masc art dat sg fem art gen sg masc art gen pl masc to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:2 τοῦ art gen sg masc For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 τοῦ ὁ τῆς art gen sg masc art nom sg masc art gen sg fem For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9 τῆς τὸ art gen sg fem art acc sg neut But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13 τῶν οἱ οἱ art gen pl masc art nom pl masc art nom pl masc But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ὁ τοὺς τοῦ art nom sg masc art acc pl masc art gen sg masc For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:15 οἱ οἱ τὴν τοῦ τοὺς art nom pl masc art nom pl masc art acc sg fem art gen sg masc art acc pl masc For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:17 οἱ οἱ τοῦ art nom pl masc art nom pl masc art gen sg masc then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1 τῶν τῶν art gen pl masc art gen pl masc But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ὁ τοῦ art nom sg masc art gen sg masc For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10 τοῦ art gen sg masc who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14 τοὺς τοὺς τῶν art acc pl masc art acc pl masc art gen pl masc We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ὁ τῆς τὸ ἡ τὸ τῇ τοῦ art nom sg masc art gen sg fem art nom sg neut art nom sg fem art nom sg neut art dat sg fem art gen sg masc May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:28 Ἡ τοῦ art nom sg fem art gen sg masc The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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.
ο (ho) is a Greek word most often rendered “the.” Its English rendering has broadened — “which” classically, “the” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 6,958 verses in 27 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 1:2. Related forms include τανυν, οδε and οιος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3588 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 →
- 6,958
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6,958 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1
- by frequency
- Most frequent Greek word — of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence.
View all 6,958 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 6,958 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3,366 verses · 48%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1,951 verses · 28%
- Pauline corpus 1,635 verses · 23%
- Johannine 1,309 verses · 19%
- Revelation 386 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 371 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 263 verses · 4%
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: Which 391×, Who 79×, Things 12×
- American Standard Version: That 206×, Who 79×, Which 73×
- Berean Standard Bible: The 7,625×, Who 563×, Of 346×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: The 7,661×, God 966×, One 603×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3588 across 542 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 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 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3588 across 1,005 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 68 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 G3588 across 9,912 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 107 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 9,622 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3588 across 20,796 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 1,052 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 3 further occurrences.
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.
- this, that, these, etc.
Word origin
Origin: in all their inflections, the definite article
the masculine feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom): - the this that one he she it etc.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 42 distinct written forms G3588 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3588, 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.
Derived from this word
- τανυν tanŷn G3569 present
- οδε hóde G3592 this
- οιος hoîos G3634 what sort of
- ος hós G3739 who
- ουτος hoûtos G3778 this
- σημερον sḗmeron G4594 this day
- ταυτα tautá G5024 thus
- τηλικουτος tēlikoûtos G5082 of such size
- τοι toí G5104 truly
- τοσουτος tosoûtos G5118 so great
- τοτε tóte G5119 then
- του toû G5120 his
- τουναντιον tounantíon G5121 on the contrary
- τουνομα toúnoma G5122 by name
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- θεος theós G2316 God
- ο ων και ο ην και ο ερχομενος ho ṑn kaí ho ēn kaí ho erchómenos G3801 He who is
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 17 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ο appears 68,018 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19,787 verses in 38 books.
- 68,018
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 19,787
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:1 ὁ
- Exodus 1:1 ὁ
- Leviticus 1:1 ὁ
- Numbers 1:1 ὁ
- Deuteronomy 1:1 ὁ
- Joshua 1:1 ὁ
- Judges 1:1 ὁ
- Ruth 1:1 ὁ
- 1 Samuel 1:2 ὁ
- 2 Samuel 1:1 ὁ
- 1 Kings 1:1 ὁ
- 2 Kings 1:1 ὁ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3588) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 19,787. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:1 ὁ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:2 ὁ Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:3 ὁ God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
- Genesis 1:4 ὁ God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:5 ὁ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
- Genesis 1:6 ὁ God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:7 ὁ God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
- Genesis 1:8 ὁ God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 ὁ God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:10 ὁ God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:11 ὁ God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 ὁ The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:14 ὁ God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:15 ὁ and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:16 ὁ God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 1:17 ὁ God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:18 ὁ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:20 ὁ God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:21 ὁ God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:22 ὁ God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 1:24 ὁ God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25 ὁ God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 ὁ God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:27 ὁ God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:28 ὁ God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
- Genesis 1:29 ὁ God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 1:30 ὁ To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 1:31 ὁ God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:1 ὁ The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:2 ὁ On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3 ὁ God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 2:4 ὁ This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 2:5 ὁ No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:6 ὁ but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- Genesis 2:7 ὁ Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:8 ὁ Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:9 ὁ Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:10 ὁ A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
- Genesis 2:11 ὁ The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 ὁ and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:13 ὁ The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
- Genesis 2:14 ὁ The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 2:15 ὁ Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Genesis 2:16 ὁ Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 2:17 ὁ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 2:18 ὁ Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:19 ὁ Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 2:20 ὁ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Genesis 2:21 ὁ Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 2:22 ὁ He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3588) 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.
