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.
50 verses where G3739 appears in the Nominative 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 1:61 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."
- Luke 2:11 ὅς rel.pron nom sg masc For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
- Luke 2:37 ἣ rel.pron nom sg fem and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
- Luke 5:3 ὃ rel.pron nom sg neut He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
- Luke 5:10 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."
- Luke 5:17 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
- Luke 5:18 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
- Luke 5:21 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
- Luke 5:29 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
- Luke 6:16 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.
- Luke 6:17 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
- Luke 6:48 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
- Luke 7:2 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.
- Luke 7:23 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
- Luke 7:27 οὗ ὃς rel.pron gen sg masc rel.pron nom sg masc This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.'
- Luke 7:49 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
- Luke 8:2 αἳ ἧς rel.pron nom pl fem rel.pron gen sg fem and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
- Luke 8:5 ὃ rel.pron nom sg neut "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
- Luke 8:13 οἳ οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc rel.pron nom pl masc Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
- Luke 8:17 ὃ ὃ rel.pron nom sg neut rel.pron nom sg neut For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.
- 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 9:24 ὃς ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc rel.pron nom sg masc For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
- Luke 9:26 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
- Luke 9:27 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Kingdom of God."
- 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 9:48 ὃς ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc rel.pron nom sg masc and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."
- Luke 9:50 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Jesus said to him, "Don't forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us."
- Luke 10:30 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 10:39 ἣ rel.pron nom sg fem She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
- Luke 12:2 ὃ ὃ rel.pron nom sg neut rel.pron nom sg neut But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
- Luke 12:8 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
- Luke 12:10 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
- Luke 13:30 οἳ οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc rel.pron nom pl masc Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."
- Luke 14:33 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
- Luke 16:1 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
- Luke 17:7 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
- Luke 17:12 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
- Luke 17:31 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
- Luke 17:33 ὃς ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc rel.pron nom sg masc Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
- Luke 18:17 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
- Luke 18:29 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
- Luke 18:30 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
- Luke 19:26 ὃ rel.pron nom sg neut 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
- Luke 20:47 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
- 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 23:27 αἳ rel.pron nom pl fem A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
- 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 23:51 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:
- Luke 24:19 ὃς rel.pron nom sg masc He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
- Luke 24:23 οἳ rel.pron nom pl masc and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
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.
