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ὁποῖος

what sort

G3697 Strong's Greek
hopoîos Transliteration
/hop-oy'-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 5 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.

οποιος — transliterated hopoîos — is a Greek word carrying the sense “what sort.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. Debuting at Acts 26:29, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come ος, ο εστι and οθεν. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
what manner of
Modern gloss
what sort
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G3697 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 →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
5 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 26:29
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 26:29.
James 1:24
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in James 1:24.
#1,648
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 20%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 60%
  • General Epistles 1 · 20%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 5 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 60%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 20%

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 1×, Manner 1×, Manner of man 1×
  • American Standard Version: As 1×, Manner of 1×, Manner of man 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Kind 1×, Quality 1×, Whatever 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sort 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3697 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “As” 1×
  • “Manner” 1×
  • “Manner of man” 1×
  • “Sort” 1×
  • “Whatsoever” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3697 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “As” 1×
  • “Manner of” 1×
  • “Manner of man” 1×
  • “Sort” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3697 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Kind” 1×
  • “Quality” 1×
  • “Whatever” 1×

Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3697 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sort” 3×

Plus 2 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. of what sort or quality, what manner of

Word origin

Derived from ος (hós) (G3739) — who.

From G3739 and G4169 ; of what kind that that is how ( as ) great ( excellent ) (specifically as indefinite correlation to antecedent definitely G5108 of quality): - what manner (sort) of such as whatsoever.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G3697 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὁποῖος hopoîos Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Acts 26:29 2
ὁποίαν hopoían Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 Thessalonians 1:9 1
ὁποῖοί hopoîoí Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Galatians 2:6 1
ὁποῖόν hopoîón Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 1 Corinthians 3:13 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3697, 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

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Reading settings

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