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ουτος

this

G3778 Strong's Greek
hoûtos Transliteration
/hoo'-tos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1,379 appearances

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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, ουτος (hoûtos) means “this.” “same” is the historic King James Version rendering; modern versions use “this.” See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 1,255 verses across 27 books, one of the most common footprint. It first appears in Matthew 1:20. It clusters with ο, τανυν and οδε under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
he
Modern gloss
this
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 G3778 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 →

1,255
distinct verses
The word appears in 1,255 distinct verses.
27 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:20
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:20.
Revelation 22:20
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:20.
#13
by frequency
Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 13 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 1,255 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

  • John 214 verses 17%
  • Acts 213 verses 17%
  • Luke 210 verses 17%

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 625 · 50%
  • Acts 213 · 17%
  • Pauline Epistles 242 · 19%
  • General Epistles 132 · 11%
  • Revelation 43 · 3%

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 1,255 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 625 verses · 50%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 423 verses · 34%
  • Johannine 300 verses · 24%
  • Pauline corpus 242 verses · 19%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 92 verses · 7%
  • Revelation 43 verses · 3%
  • Hebrews 40 verses · 3%

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: This 157×, These 62×, Same 34×
  • American Standard Version: This 245×, These 81×, Same 28×
  • Berean Standard Bible: This 572×, These 138×, Things 103×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: This 745×, Things 237×, These 194×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3778 across 347 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “This” 157×
  • “These” 62×
  • “Same” 34×
  • “He” 29×
  • “Man” 17×
  • “She” 11×
  • “They” 9×
  • “Is this” 5×
  • “Woman” 4×
  • “He that” 2×
  • “Is it which these” 2×

Plus 15 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 9 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3778 across 470 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “This” 245×
  • “These” 81×
  • “Same” 28×
  • “He” 23×
  • “Man” 23×
  • “Is this” 6×
  • “They” 5×
  • “It” 3×
  • “That” 3×
  • “The” 3×
  • “A” 2×
  • “Her” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 42 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 G3778 across 1,042 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “This” 572×
  • “These” 138×
  • “Things” 103×
  • “He” 30×
  • “That” 29×
  • “Him” 18×
  • “They” 13×
  • “Those” 10×
  • “Them” 7×
  • “She” 6×
  • “Such” 5×
  • “Than these” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 49 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 327 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3778 across 1,466 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “This” 745×
  • “Things” 237×
  • “These” 194×
  • “One” 97×
  • “He” 34×
  • “That” 30×
  • “She” 12×
  • “They” 12×
  • “Is” 11×
  • “Those” 9×
  • “Reason” 8×
  • “Are” 6×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 16 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. this, these, etc.

Word origin

Derived from ο (ho) (G3588).

Including the nominative masculine plural (second form) nominative feminine signular (third form) and the nominate feminine plural (fourth form). From the article G3588 and G846 ; the he ( she or it) that is this or that (often with the article repeated): - he (it was that) hereof it she such as the same these they this (man same woman) which who.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 35 distinct written forms G3778 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
τοῦτο toûto Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 6:25 296
ταῦτα taûta Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 1:20 213
οὗτος hoûtos Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:3 126
τούτῳ toútō Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 17:20 89
αὕτη haútē Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 9:26 73
τούτων toútōn Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter Matthew 6:29 71
τούτου toútou Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 13:15 65
οὗτοι hoûtoi Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 4:3 58
οὗτός hoûtós Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:17 58
τοῦτον toûton Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 19:11 58
ταύτην taútēn Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 11:16 49
ταύτης taútēs Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 12:41 34
ταύτῃ taútē Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 10:23 32
τούτους toútous Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 7:24 27
τούτοις toútois Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Plural, Neuter Luke 16:26 19
Ταῦτα Taûta Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 9:18 18
τοῦτ’ toût Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 27:46 17
οὗτοί hoûtoí Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 13:38 15
τοῦτό toûtó Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 26:26 14
ταύταις taútais Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 22:40 11
ταύτας taútas Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 13:53 8
Τοῦτο Toûto Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter John 4:54 6
ταῦτά taûtá Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 15:20 4
Ταύτην Taútēn Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine John 10:6 3
Οὗτός Hoûtós Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 21:24 2
Τούτου Toútou Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Ephesians 3:1 2
Τούτων Toútōn Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 11:7 2
αὗται haûtai Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Acts 20:34 2
Οὗτοί Hoûtoí Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Jude 1:12 1
Οὗτος Hoûtos Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 7:1 1
Ταύτας Taútas Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 2 Corinthians 7:1 1
Ταῦτά Taûtá Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 Timothy 3:14 1
Τούτους Toútous Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 10:5 1
Τοῦτον Toûton Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 7:35 1
αὗταί haûtaí Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Luke 21:22 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3778, 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

Derived from this word

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 29 — not the complete family. 3 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 ουτος appears 3,488 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3,014 verses in 38 books.

3,488
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
3,014
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

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3778) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 3,014. 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 (G3778) 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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