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.
40 verses where G3588 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of 1 Timothy. 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 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 1:1 τῆς art gen sg fem Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;
- 1 Timothy 1:2 τοῦ art gen sg masc to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 Timothy 1:5 τὸ τῆς art nom sg neut art gen sg fem but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
- 1 Timothy 1:11 τὸ τῆς τοῦ art acc sg neut art gen sg fem art gen sg masc according to the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- 1 Timothy 1:14 ἡ τοῦ τῆς art nom sg fem art gen sg masc art gen sg fem The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 1:16 τὴν τῶν art acc sg fem art gen pl masc However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
- 1 Timothy 1:17 τῷ τῶν τοὺς τῶν art dat sg masc art gen pl masc art acc pl masc art gen pl masc Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Timothy 2:2 τῶν art gen pl masc for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
- 1 Timothy 2:3 τοῦ art gen sg masc For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
- 1 Timothy 2:15 τῆς art gen sg fem but she will be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
- 1 Timothy 3:4 τοῦ art gen sg masc one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
- 1 Timothy 3:5 τοῦ art gen sg masc (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
- 1 Timothy 3:6 τοῦ art gen sg masc not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
- 1 Timothy 3:7 τῶν τοῦ art gen pl masc art gen sg masc Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
- 1 Timothy 3:9 τὸ τῆς art acc sg neut art gen sg fem holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
- 1 Timothy 3:12 τῶν art gen pl masc Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- 1 Timothy 3:15 τῆς art gen sg fem but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 1 Timothy 3:16 τὸ τῆς art nom sg neut art gen sg fem Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, And received up in glory.
- 1 Timothy 4:1 Τὸ τῆς art nom sg neut art gen sg fem But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
- 1 Timothy 4:6 τοῖς τοῖς τῆς τῆς art dat pl masc art dat pl masc art gen sg fem art gen sg fem If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
- 1 Timothy 4:8 ἡ ἡ τῆς τῆς art nom sg fem art nom sg fem art gen sg fem art gen sg fem For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- 1 Timothy 4:12 τῆς τῶν art gen sg fem art gen pl masc Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
- 1 Timothy 4:14 τοῦ τῶν τοῦ art gen sg neut art gen pl fem art gen sg neut Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
- 1 Timothy 5:4 τὸν τοῖς τοῦ art acc sg masc art dat pl masc art gen sg masc But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
- 1 Timothy 5:8 τῶν τὴν art gen pl masc art acc sg fem But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
- 1 Timothy 5:11 τοῦ art gen sg masc But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
- 1 Timothy 5:15 τοῦ art gen sg masc For already some have turned aside after Satan.
- 1 Timothy 5:18 ἡ ὁ τοῦ art nom sg fem art nom sg masc art gen sg masc For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."
- 1 Timothy 5:21 τοῦ τῶν art gen sg masc art gen pl masc I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
- 1 Timothy 6:1 τοὺς τὸ τοῦ ἡ art acc pl masc art nom sg neut art gen sg masc art nom sg fem Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
- 1 Timothy 6:2 οἱ οἱ τῆς art nom pl masc art nom pl masc art gen sg fem Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
- 1 Timothy 6:3 τοῖς τοῦ τῇ art dat pl masc art gen sg masc art dat sg fem If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
- 1 Timothy 6:5 τὸν τῆς τὴν art acc sg masc art gen sg fem art acc sg fem constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
- 1 Timothy 6:10 τῶν ἡ τῆς art gen pl neut art nom sg fem art gen sg fem For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- 1 Timothy 6:12 τὸν τῆς τῆς τὴν art acc sg masc art gen sg fem art gen sg fem art acc sg fem Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
- 1 Timothy 6:13 τοῦ τὰ τοῦ τὴν art gen sg masc art acc pl neut art gen sg masc art acc sg fem I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
- 1 Timothy 6:14 τὴν τῆς τοῦ art acc sg fem art gen sg fem art gen sg masc that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Timothy 6:15 ὁ ὁ τῶν τῶν art nom sg masc art nom sg masc art gen pl masc art gen pl masc which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- 1 Timothy 6:19 τὸ τῆς art acc sg neut art gen sg fem laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
- 1 Timothy 6:20 τὴν τὰς τῆς art acc sg fem art acc pl fem art gen sg fem Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
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.
