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ὅσος

how much

G3745 Strong's Greek
hósos Transliteration
/hos'-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 108 appearances

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About this entry

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“how much” is the headline sense of the Greek word οσος (hósos). Where the King James Version says “many as,” newer translations reach for “whatever” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 98 verses across 17 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. First canonically at Matthew 7:12, it enters the text early. Related forms include ος, ο εστι and οθεν. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
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Modern gloss
how much
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3745 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 →

98
distinct verses
The word appears in 98 distinct verses.
17 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 7:12
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 7:12.
Revelation 21:16
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:16.
#153
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 153 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 98 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 45 · 46%
  • Acts 17 · 17%
  • Pauline Epistles 19 · 19%
  • General Epistles 10 · 10%
  • Revelation 7 · 7%

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 98 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 45 verses · 46%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 26 verses · 27%
  • Pauline corpus 19 verses · 19%
  • Johannine 15 verses · 15%
  • Hebrews 8 verses · 8%
  • Revelation 7 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 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: Many as 26×, Whatsoever 14×, That 8×
  • American Standard Version: Many as 23×, Whatsoever 16×, As 10×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Whatever 13×, All who 11×, All 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Many as 36×, Much as 30×, Whatever 10×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3745 across 103 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Many as” 26×
  • “Whatsoever” 14×
  • “That” 8×
  • “As” 7×
  • “Whatsoever things” 7×
  • “How great things” 5×
  • “What” 5×
  • “All” 3×
  • “Ever” 3×
  • “How much” 3×
  • “All things” 2×
  • “Many” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 14 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 13 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3745 across 109 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Many as” 23×
  • “Whatsoever” 16×
  • “As” 10×
  • “That” 7×
  • “Whatsoever things” 7×
  • “Many” 5×
  • “What” 5×
  • “How great things” 4×
  • “All things that” 3×
  • “Long as” 3×
  • “How many things” 2×
  • “How much” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 18 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 G3745 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Whatever” 13×
  • “All who” 11×
  • “All” 6×
  • “How much” 6×
  • “What” 6×
  • “Who” 5×
  • “As” 4×
  • “Long as” 4×
  • “All that” 3×
  • “Many as” 3×
  • “Much as” 3×
  • “That” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 11 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 22 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3745 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Many as” 36×
  • “Much as” 30×
  • “Whatever” 10×
  • “How much” 5×
  • “All that” 4×
  • “As” 4×
  • “Long as” 3×
  • “Much” 3×
  • “That” 3×
  • “How many” 2×
  • “Very” 2×
  • “What” 2×

Plus 10 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. as great as, as far as, how much, how many, whoever

Word origin

Derived from ος (hós) (G3739) — who.

By reduplication from G3739 ; as ( much great long etc.) as : - all (that) as (long many much) (as) how great (many much) [in-] asmuch as so many as that (ever) the more those things what (great -soever) wheresoever wherewithsoever which X while who (-soever).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G3745 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὅσα hósa Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 7:12 53
ὅσοι hósoi Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 14:36 28
ὅσον hóson Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 9:15 17
ὅσους hósous Correlative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 22:9 4
ὅσῳ hósō Correlative pronoun, Dative, Singular, Neuter Hebrews 1:4 3
ὅσαι hósai Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 2 Corinthians 1:20 1
ὅσων hósōn Correlative pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Luke 11:8 1
Ὅσοι Hósoi Correlative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Timothy 6:1 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3745, 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.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word οσος appears 503 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 463 verses in 31 books.

503
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
463
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
31 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3745) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 463. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3745) 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.

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