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οὖν

therefore

G3767 Strong's Greek
oûn Transliteration
/oon/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 489 appearances

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About this entry

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ουν (oûn) is a Greek word most often rendered “therefore.” Debuting at Matthew 1:17, it then recurs through the corpus. With 480 verses in 23 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in John, which alone accounts for 39% of its uses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
and
Modern gloss
therefore
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 G3767 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 →

480
distinct verses
The word appears in 480 distinct verses.
23 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 23 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:17.
Revelation 3:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 3:19.
#41
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 41 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 280 · 58%
  • Acts 60 · 13%
  • Pauline Epistles 109 · 23%
  • General Epistles 27 · 6%
  • Revelation 4 · 1%

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 480 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 280 verses · 58%
  • Johannine 193 verses · 40%
  • Pauline corpus 109 verses · 23%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 92 verses · 19%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 14 verses · 3%
  • Hebrews 13 verses · 3%
  • Revelation 4 verses · 1%

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: Therefore 244×, Then 187×, So 12×
  • American Standard Version: Therefore 274×, Then 87×, So 30×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Then 133×, So 122×, Therefore 76×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Therefore 250×, Then 178×, So 56×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3767 across 488 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Therefore” 244×
  • “Then” 187×
  • “So” 12×
  • “Now” 8×
  • “Wherefore” 7×
  • “And” 5×
  • “But” 4×
  • “Seeing then” 2×

Plus 19 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 38 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3767 across 473 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Therefore” 274×
  • “Then” 87×
  • “So” 30×
  • “And” 13×
  • “The” 7×
  • “When” 7×
  • “Said therefore” 6×
  • “They” 4×
  • “But” 3×
  • “Being therefore” 2×
  • “Ezekiel therefore” 2×
  • “Now” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 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 14 further occurrences.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3767 across 374 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Then” 133×
  • “So” 122×
  • “Therefore” 76×
  • “This” 10×
  • “Now” 6×
  • “Meanwhile” 5×
  • “And” 4×
  • “Result” 2×

Plus 16 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 119 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3767 across 494 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Therefore” 250×
  • “Then” 178×
  • “So” 56×
  • “Now” 4×
  • “But” 3×

Plus 3 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. then, therefore, accordingly, consequently, these things being so

Word origin

Origin: apparently a root word

Apparently a primary word; (adverbially) certainly or (conjugationally) accordingly : - and (so truly) but now (then) so (likewise then) then therefore verily wherefore.

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


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ουν appears 132 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 130 verses in 17 books.

132
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
130
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
17 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3767) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 130. 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 (G3767) 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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