οἷος
what sort of
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Correlative pronoun
- Pairs with another term (“such… as,” “as many… as”).
- Relative pronoun
- Introduces a relative clause (“who,” “which,” “that”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (21%)
- Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (14%)
- Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (14%)
- Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (14%)
- Relative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter 2 times (14%)
- Relative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (14%)
- Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3634 appears — 11 distinct verses across 9 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 9:3 οἷα rel.pron nom pl neut His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
- Mark 13:19 οἵα rel.pron nom sg fem For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 10:11 οἷοί corr.pron nom pl masc Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
- 2 Corinthians 12:20 οἵους οἷον corr.pron acc pl masc corr.pron acc sg masc For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
Philippians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
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, οιος (hoîos) means “what sort of.” First canonically at Matthew 24:21, it enters the text early. It appears 11 verses across 9 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. It shares a root with ο, τανυν and οδε. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3634 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Mark 2 verses 18%
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 18%
- Matthew 1 verse 9%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 64%
- Gospels 3 verses · 27%
- Johannine 1 verse · 9%
- Revelation 1 verse · 9%
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: As 9×, Which 2×
- American Standard Version: As 8×, What 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: As 4×, What 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: As 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3634 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G3634 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G3634 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3634 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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.
- what sort of, what manner of, such as
Word origin
Derived from ο (ho) (G3588).
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G3634 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἷον hoîon | Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 12:20 | 3 |
| οἷος hoîos | Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 15:48 | 3 |
| οἵα hoía | Relative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 24:21 | 2 |
| οἵους hoíous | Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 12:20 | 2 |
| οἷά hoîá | Relative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | 2 Timothy 3:11 | 1 |
| οἷα hoîa | Relative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Mark 9:3 | 1 |
| οἷοί hoîoí | Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 10:11 | 1 |
| οἷοι hoîoi | Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Thessalonians 1:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3634, 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
- τανυν tanŷn G3569 present
- οδε hóde G3592 this
- 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
Derived from this word
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 18 — 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 οιος appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 6 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 41:19 οἷος
- 1 Kings 18:13 οἷος
- Ezra 2:57 οἱός
- Esther 2:1 οἷος
- Job 33:27 οἷος
- Daniel 9:12 οἷος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3634) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 41:19 οἷος and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
- Genesis 44:15 οἷος Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
- 1 Kings 18:13 οἷος Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- Ezra 2:57 οἱός the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
- Esther 2:1 οἷος After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Job 33:27 οἷος He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn't profit me.
- Daniel 9:12 οἷος He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.
- Daniel 12:1 οἷος "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3634) 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.
