ὅπως
how
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G3704 appears in the Book of Romans — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Romans
- Romans 3:4 ὅπως adv May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment."
- Romans 9:17 ὅπως ὅπως adv adv For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."
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.
The Greek word οπως centers on the idea of “how.” Debuting at Matthew 2:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 52 verses in 14 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Matthew dominates its distribution — 17 of 52 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ος, ο εστι and οθεν. Dig into 52-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3704 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 →
- 52
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 52 distinct verses.
- 14 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 14 of 27 New Testament books.
- #300
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 300 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 52 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 52 distinct verses.
- Gospels 26 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 21 verses · 40%
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 15%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 4%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 4%
- Johannine 1 verse · 2%
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: That 46×, How 4×, To 4×
- American Standard Version: That 43×, How 4×, To 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: That 23×, To 11×, So 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 49×, How 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3704 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3704 across 56 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3704 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3704 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- how, that
Word origin
Derived from ος (hós) (G3739) — who.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3704, 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
- ο εστι hó esti G3603 which is
- οθεν hóthen G3606 from which
- οποιος hopoîos G3697 what sort
- οποτε hopóte G3698 when
- οπου hópou G3699 where
- οσακις hosákis G3740 as often as
- οσος hósos G3745 how much
- οσπερ hósper G3746 whomever
- οστις hóstis G3748 whoever
- οτε hóte G3753 when
- ου hoû G3757 where
- ποσος pósos G4214 how much
- ως hōs G5613 as
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οπως appears 167 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 165 verses in 30 books.
- 167
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 165
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:13 ὅπως
- Exodus 2:20 ὅπως
- Leviticus 17:5 ὅπως
- Numbers 15:40 ὅπως
- Deuteronomy 4:10 ὅπως
- Joshua 4:24 ὅπως
- 1 Samuel 6:5 ὅπως
- 2 Samuel 10:3 ὅπως
- 1 Kings 6:6 ὅπως
- 2 Kings 22:17 ὅπως
- 1 Chronicles 19:3 ὅπως
- 2 Chronicles 1:11 ὅπως
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3704) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 165. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:13 ὅπως Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
- Genesis 18:19 ὅπως For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 27:4 ὅπως Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
- Genesis 27:10 ὅπως You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
- Genesis 27:19 ὅπως Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:31 ὅπως He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 29:21 ὅπως Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
- Genesis 37:22 ὅπως Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
- Genesis 50:20 ὅπως As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
- Exodus 2:20 ὅπως He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
- Exodus 5:3 ὅπως They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 9:16 ὅπως but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
- Exodus 10:2 ὅπως and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
- Exodus 10:7 ὅπως Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
- Exodus 11:7 ὅπως But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
- Exodus 13:9 ὅπως It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 14:12 ὅπως Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
- Exodus 16:4 ὅπως Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 20:20 ὅπως Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
- Exodus 20:26 ὅπως Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
- Exodus 23:20 ὅπως "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- Exodus 33:13 ὅπως Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
- Leviticus 17:5 ὅπως This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 18:30 ὅπως Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Leviticus 23:43 ὅπως that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Numbers 15:40 ὅπως that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
- Numbers 17:5 ὅπως It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 27:20 ὅπως You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
- Numbers 32:9 ὅπως For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
- Deuteronomy 4:10 ὅπως the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.
- Deuteronomy 4:40 ὅπως You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 ὅπως You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:3 ὅπως Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 8:2 ὅπως You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Deuteronomy 17:16 ὅπως Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
- Deuteronomy 17:20 ὅπως that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
- Joshua 4:24 ὅπως that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.
- Joshua 11:20 ὅπως For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Joshua 23:7 ὅπως that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
- 1 Samuel 6:5 ὅπως Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 ὅπως He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
- 1 Samuel 13:9 ὅπως Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace-offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
- 1 Samuel 15:15 ὅπως Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
- 2 Samuel 10:3 ὅπως But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
- 2 Samuel 13:5 ὅπως Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.
- 2 Samuel 17:13 ὅπως Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there not be one small stone found there.
- 2 Samuel 17:14 ὅπως Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
- 1 Kings 6:6 ὅπως The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 8:40 ὅπως that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
- 1 Kings 8:43 ὅπως hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3704) 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.
