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.
45 verses where G3588 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Colossians. 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.
Colossians
- Colossians 1:4 τὴν τὴν τοὺς art acc sg fem art acc sg fem art acc pl masc having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
- Colossians 1:5 τὴν τὴν τοῖς τῷ τῆς τοῦ art acc sg fem art acc sg fem art dat pl masc art dat sg masc art gen sg fem art gen sg neut because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
- Colossians 1:6 τοῦ τῷ τὴν τοῦ art gen sg neut art dat sg masc art acc sg fem art gen sg masc which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
- Colossians 1:8 ὁ τὴν art nom sg masc art acc sg fem who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
- Colossians 1:9 τὴν τοῦ art acc sg fem art gen sg neut For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
- Colossians 1:11 τὸ τῆς art acc sg neut art gen sg fem strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- Colossians 1:12 τῷ τῷ τὴν τοῦ τῶν τῷ art dat sg masc art dat sg masc art acc sg fem art gen sg masc art gen pl masc art dat sg neut giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
- Colossians 1:13 τῆς τοῦ τὴν τοῦ τῆς art gen sg fem art gen sg neut art acc sg fem art gen sg masc art gen sg fem who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
- Colossians 1:14 τὴν τὴν τῶν art acc sg fem art acc sg fem art gen pl fem in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;
- Colossians 1:20 τὰ τοῦ τοῦ τὰ τῆς τὰ τοῖς art acc pl neut art gen sg neut art gen sg masc art acc pl neut art gen sg fem art acc pl neut art dat pl masc and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
- Colossians 1:23 τῇ τῆς τοῦ τοῦ τῇ τὸν art dat sg fem art gen sg fem art gen sg neut art gen sg neut art dat sg fem art acc sg masc if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
- Colossians 1:24 τοῖς τὰ τῶν τοῦ τῇ τοῦ ἡ art dat pl neut art acc pl neut art gen pl fem art gen sg masc art dat sg fem art gen sg neut art nom sg fem Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;
- Colossians 1:25 τὴν τοῦ τὴν τὸν τοῦ art acc sg fem art gen sg masc art acc sg fem art acc sg masc art gen sg masc of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,
- Colossians 1:26 τὸ τὸ τῶν τῶν τοῖς art acc sg neut art acc sg neut art gen pl masc art gen pl fem art dat pl masc the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
- Colossians 1:29 τὴν τὴν art acc sg fem art acc sg fem for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
- Colossians 2:1 τῶν τὸ art gen pl masc art acc sg neut For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
- Colossians 2:5 τῇ τῷ τὴν τὸ τῆς art dat sg fem art dat sg neut art acc sg fem art acc sg neut art gen sg fem For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
- Colossians 2:6 τὸν τὸν art acc sg masc art acc sg masc As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
- Colossians 2:8 ὁ τῆς τὴν τῶν τὰ τοῦ art nom sg masc art gen sg fem art acc sg fem art gen pl masc art acc pl neut art gen sg masc Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
- Colossians 2:13 τοῖς τῇ τῆς τὰ art dat pl neut art dat sg fem art gen sg fem art acc pl neut You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
- Colossians 2:14 τὸ τοῖς τοῦ τῷ art acc sg neut art dat pl neut art gen sg neut art dat sg masc wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
- Colossians 2:15 τὰς τὰς art acc pl fem art acc pl fem having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
- Colossians 2:19 τὴν τὸ τῶν τὴν τοῦ art acc sg fem art nom sg neut art gen pl fem art acc sg fem art gen sg masc and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
- Colossians 2:22 τῇ τὰ τῶν art dat sg fem art acc pl neut art gen pl masc (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
- Colossians 3:1 τῷ τὰ ὁ τοῦ art dat sg masc art acc pl neut art nom sg masc art gen sg masc If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- Colossians 3:2 τὰ τὰ τῆς art acc pl neut art acc pl neut art gen sg fem Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
- Colossians 3:5 τὰ τὰ τῆς τὴν art acc pl neut art acc pl neut art gen sg fem art acc sg fem Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- Colossians 3:8 τὰ τοῦ art acc pl neut art gen sg neut but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
- Colossians 3:9 τὸν ταῖς art acc sg masc art dat pl fem Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
- Colossians 3:10 τὸν τὸν τοῦ art acc sg masc art acc sg masc art gen sg masc and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- Colossians 3:14 τὴν τῆς art acc sg fem art gen sg fem Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
- Colossians 3:19 οἱ τὰς art nom pl masc art acc pl fem Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
- Colossians 3:21 οἱ τὰ art nom pl masc art acc pl neut Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
- Colossians 3:22 οἱ τοῖς τὸν art nom pl masc art dat pl masc art acc sg masc Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
- Colossians 3:24 τὴν τῆς τῷ art acc sg fem art gen sg fem art dat sg masc knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
- Colossians 4:1 οἱ τὸ τὴν τοῖς art nom pl masc art acc sg neut art acc sg fem art dat pl masc Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
- Colossians 4:3 ὁ τοῦ τὸ τοῦ art nom sg masc art gen sg masc art acc sg neut art gen sg masc praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
- Colossians 4:5 τοὺς τὸν art acc pl masc art acc sg masc Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
- Colossians 4:7 Τὰ ὁ art acc pl neut art nom sg masc All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
- Colossians 4:8 τὰ τὰς art acc pl neut art acc pl fem I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
- Colossians 4:9 τῷ τὰ art dat sg masc art acc pl neut together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.
- Colossians 4:11 ὁ οἱ τὴν τοῦ art nom sg masc art nom pl masc art acc sg fem art gen sg masc and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, men who have been a comfort to me.
- Colossians 4:15 τοὺς τὴν art acc pl masc art acc sg fem Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.
- Colossians 4:16 ἡ τῇ τὴν art nom sg fem art dat sg fem art acc sg fem When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
- Colossians 4:17 τὴν art acc sg fem Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."
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.
