ος
who
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
- Relative pronoun
- Introduces a relative clause (“who,” “which,” “that”).
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
54 verses where G3739 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 1:73 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc The oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,
- Luke 2:15 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."
- Luke 2:31 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
- Luke 2:50 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.
- Luke 5:25 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
- Luke 6:2 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"
- Luke 6:3 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;
- Luke 6:4 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"
- Luke 6:13 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
- Luke 6:14 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
- Luke 6:46 ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
- Luke 7:22 ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Luke 8:18 ὃς ὃς ὃ rel.pron nom sg masc rel.pron nom sg masc rel.pron acc sg neut Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."
- Luke 8:47 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
- Luke 9:4 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.
- Luke 9:31 οἳ ἣν rel.pron nom pl masc rel.pron acc sg fem who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
- Luke 9:33 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
- Luke 10:5 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'
- Luke 10:8 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
- Luke 10:10 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into the streets of it and say,
- Luke 10:23 ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
- Luke 10:24 ἃ ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut rel.pron acc pl neut for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."
- Luke 10:35 ὅ rel.pron acc sg neut On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
- Luke 11:6 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,'
- Luke 11:27 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"
- Luke 12:3 ὧν ὃ rel.pron gen pl neut rel.pron acc sg neut Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
- Luke 12:12 ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."
- Luke 12:20 ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
- Luke 12:37 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
- Luke 12:42 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
- Luke 12:43 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
- Luke 13:4 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
- Luke 13:16 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
- Luke 13:19 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
- Luke 13:21 ἣν οὗ rel.pron acc sg fem rel.pron gen sg masc It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."
- Luke 13:34 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
- Luke 14:22 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.'
- Luke 15:9 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'
- Luke 17:10 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"
- Luke 19:20 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
- Luke 19:21 ὃ ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut rel.pron acc sg neut for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
- Luke 19:22 ὃ ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut rel.pron acc sg neut "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
- Luke 19:30 ᾗ ὃν rel.pron dat sg fem rel.pron acc sg masc saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.
- Luke 20:17 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
- Luke 20:18 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc "Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, But it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
- Luke 21:4 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."
- Luke 21:6 ἃ αἷς ὃς rel.pron acc pl neut rel.pron dat pl fem rel.pron nom sg masc "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."
- Luke 22:10 ἣν rel.pron acc sg fem He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.
- Luke 22:60 ὃ rel.pron acc sg neut But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
- Luke 23:25 ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
- Luke 23:33 ὃν ὃν rel.pron acc sg masc rel.pron acc sg masc When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
- Luke 24:1 ἃ rel.pron acc pl neut But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
- Luke 24:17 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"
- Luke 24:44 οὓς rel.pron acc pl masc He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
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, ος (hós) means “who.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:16. It appears 1,225 verses across 27 books of the Greek New Testament, among its most common vocabulary. It clusters with ο, τανυν and οδε under a shared root. Dig into 1,225-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3739 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 →
- 1,225
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,225 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #12
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 12 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1,225 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 1,225 distinct verses.
- Gospels 480 verses · 39%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 362 verses · 30%
- Pauline corpus 331 verses · 27%
- Johannine 235 verses · 19%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 81 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 69 verses · 6%
- Revelation 64 verses · 5%
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 394×, Whom 256×, That 126×
- American Standard Version: Which 325×, Whom 247×, That 139×
- Berean Standard Bible: Whom 124×, Which 116×, What 114×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Which 272×, Whom 262×, That 227×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3739 across 1,256 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 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 147 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3739 across 1,259 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 91 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3739 across 866 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 50 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 496 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3739 across 1,431 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 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.
- who, which, what, that Wigram's count is 1309 not 1393.
Word origin
Derived from ο (ho) (G3588).
Forms in the corpus
The 25 distinct written forms G3739 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 G3739, 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
- οιος hoîos G3634 what sort of
- 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
- 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
- οπως hópōs G3704 how
- 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
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 31 — 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 ος appears 3,959 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3,406 verses in 38 books.
- 3,959
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3,406
- 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 1:7 ὅς
- Exodus 1:8 ὅς
- Leviticus 2:8 ὅς
- Numbers 1:19 ὅς
- Deuteronomy 1:1 ὅς
- Joshua 1:2 ὅς
- Judges 1:12 ὅς
- Ruth 1:13 ὅς
- 1 Samuel 1:15 ὅς
- 2 Samuel 2:10 ὅς
- 1 Kings 1:9 ὅς
- 2 Kings 1:4 ὅς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3739) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 3,406. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:7 ὅς 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 1:11 ὅς 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 ὅς 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 1:21 ὅς 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 1:29 ὅς 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 ὅς 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 2:2 ὅς 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 ὅς 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 ὅς 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 2:8 ὅς Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:11 ὅς The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:15 ὅς Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Genesis 2:17 ὅς 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 2:19 ὅς 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 2:22 ὅς He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- Genesis 2:25 ὅς They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:1 ὅς Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:3 ὅς but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:5 ὅς for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:8 ὅς They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:11 ὅς God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:12 ὅς The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:17 ὅς To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:19 ὅς By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 3:23 ὅς Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- Genesis 4:11 ὅς Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 4:25 ὅς Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 5:1 ὅς This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
- Genesis 5:2 ὅς He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 5:5 ὅς All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:27 ὅς All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:29 ὅς and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 6:2 ὅς that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:7 ὅς Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:17 ὅς I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 6:21 ὅς Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 7:4 ὅς In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 7:15 ὅς They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
- Genesis 7:19 ὅς The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
- Genesis 7:22 ὅς All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
- Genesis 7:23 ὅς Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:6 ὅς It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
- Genesis 8:13 ὅς It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 9:3 ὅς Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Genesis 9:12 ὅς God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:15 ὅς and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:16 ὅς The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 9:17 ὅς God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 11:4 ὅς They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 11:5 ὅς Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3739) 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.
