οὕτω
thus
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G3779 appears in the Book of Colossians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Colossians
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.
“thus” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ουτω (hoútō). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:18. The Greek New Testament uses it across 203 verses — common. Related forms include ουτος, ταυτα and ταυταις. See the sense tree, 203-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3779 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 →
- 203
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 203 distinct verses.
- 21 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 21 of 27 New Testament books.
- #79
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 79 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 203 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 32 verses 16%
- Acts 27 verses 13%
- 1 Corinthians 27 verses 13%
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 203 distinct verses.
- Gospels 78 verses · 38%
- Pauline corpus 70 verses · 34%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 48 verses · 24%
- Johannine 23 verses · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 12 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 9 verses · 4%
- Revelation 7 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: So 165×, Thus 15×, Wise 5×
- American Standard Version: So 142×, Thus 18×, As 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: So 67×, Way 19×, Same way 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thus 85×, So 46×, Way 31×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3779 across 208 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 5 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3779 across 198 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 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 G3779 across 163 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 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 40 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3779 across 211 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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.
- in this manner, thus, so
Word origin
Derived from ουτος (hoûtos) (G3778).
Or before a vowel οὕτως houtō s hoo'-toce . From G3778 ; in this way (referring to what precedes or follows): - after that after (in) this manner as even (so) for all that like (-wise) no more on this fashion (-wise) so (in like manner) thus what.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3779 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οὕτως hoútōs | Adverb | Matthew 1:18 | 202 |
| οὕτω hoútō | Adverb | Acts 23:11 | 3 |
| Οὕτως Hoútōs | Adverb | Acts 19:20 | 2 |
| οὗτως hoûtōs | Adverb | James 2:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3779, 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
- ταυτα taûta G5023 these
- ταυταις taútais G5025 these
- ταυτη taútēi G5026 this
- τουτο toûto G5124 that thing
- τουτοις toútois G5125 these
- τουτον toûton G5126 this
- τουτου toútou G5127 of this
- τουτους toútous G5128 these
- τουτω toútōi G5129 to this
- τουτων toútōn G5130 of these
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 13 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ουτω appears 664 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 621 verses in 33 books.
- 664
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 621
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:6 οὕτως
- Exodus 2:14 οὕτως
- Leviticus 4:20 οὕτως
- Numbers 1:54 οὕτως
- Deuteronomy 3:21 οὕτως
- Joshua 1:5 οὕτως
- Judges 1:7 οὕτως
- 1 Samuel 1:7 οὕτως
- 2 Samuel 3:9 οὕτως
- 1 Kings 1:30 οὕτως
- 2 Kings 1:4 οὕτως
- 1 Chronicles 13:4 οὕτως
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3779) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 621. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:6 οὕτως God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:9 οὕτως God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11 οὕτως 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 1:15 οὕτως and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:20 οὕτως God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:24 οὕτως God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:30 οὕτως 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 4:15 οὕτως Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
- Genesis 6:15 οὕτως This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 6:22 οὕτως Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
- Genesis 15:5 οὕτως Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
- Genesis 18:5 οὕτως I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
- Genesis 24:30 οὕτως It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 25:22 οὕτως The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
- Genesis 29:26 οὕτως Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born.
- Genesis 29:28 οὕτως Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
- Genesis 30:15 οὕτως She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
- Genesis 31:8 οὕτως If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
- Genesis 32:5 οὕτως I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
- Genesis 34:7 οὕτως The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Genesis 39:19 οὕτως It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 41:13 οὕτως It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."
- Genesis 42:20 οὕτως Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
- Genesis 42:25 οὕτως Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Genesis 43:11 οὕτως Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
- Genesis 44:10 οὕτως He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."
- Genesis 45:21 οὕτως The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
- Genesis 48:18 οὕτως Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
- Genesis 50:3 οὕτως Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
- Genesis 50:12 οὕτως His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
- Genesis 50:17 οὕτως "So you shall tell Joseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
- Exodus 2:14 οὕτως He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
- Exodus 2:20 οὕτως He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
- Exodus 3:14 οὕτως God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: "I AM has sent me to you."
- Exodus 3:15 οὕτως God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Exodus 5:15 οὕτως Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
- Exodus 6:9 οὕτως Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Exodus 7:6 οὕτως Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
- Exodus 7:10 οὕτως Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
- Exodus 7:20 οὕτως Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
- Exodus 8:20 οὕτως Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water; and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 8:22 οὕτως I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the earth.
- Exodus 10:10 οὕτως He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
- Exodus 10:11 οὕτως Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
- Exodus 10:14 οὕτως The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
- Exodus 12:11 οὕτως This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
- Exodus 12:28 οὕτως The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- Exodus 12:50 οὕτως Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- Exodus 14:4 οὕτως I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.
- Exodus 16:17 οὕτως The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3779) 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.
