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.
36 verses where G3739 appears in the Dative 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 1:25 αἷς rel.pron dat pl fem "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."
- Luke 1:26 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
- Luke 1:27 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.
- Luke 1:78 οἷς rel.pron dat pl neut Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
- Luke 2:20 οἷς rel.pron dat pl neut The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
- Luke 2:25 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
- Luke 4:6 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
- Luke 5:9 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;
- Luke 5:34 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
- Luke 6:38 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg neut "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."
- Luke 6:49 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
- Luke 7:4 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him,
- Luke 7:43 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
- Luke 7:47 οὗ ᾧ rel.pron gen sg neut rel.pron dat sg masc Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
- Luke 8:41 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into his house,
- Luke 9:43 οἷς rel.pron dat pl neut They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
- Luke 10:22 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
- Luke 11:22 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
- Luke 12:1 οἷς rel.pron dat pl masc Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Luke 12:24 οἷς rel.pron dat pl masc Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
- Luke 12:40 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
- Luke 12:46 ᾗ ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem rel.pron dat sg fem then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
- Luke 12:48 ᾧ ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc rel.pron dat sg masc but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
- Luke 13:14 αἷς rel.pron dat pl fem The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
- Luke 17:29 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
- Luke 17:30 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
- Luke 19:13 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
- Luke 19:15 οἷς rel.pron dat pl masc "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
- 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 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 21:15 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
- Luke 22:7 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
- Luke 23:29 αἷς αἳ οἳ rel.pron dat pl fem rel.pron nom pl fem rel.pron nom pl masc For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
- Luke 24:13 ᾗ rel.pron dat sg fem Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.
- Luke 24:18 ᾧ rel.pron dat sg masc One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"
- Luke 24:25 οἷς rel.pron dat pl neut He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
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.
