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σύ

you

G4771 Strong's Greek
sý Transliteration
/soo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1,070 appearances

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About this entry

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συ — transliterated sý — is a Greek word carrying the sense “you.” Its English rendering has broadened — “thou” classically, “you” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 712 verses in 21 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:20. Sharing its root, it stands alongside σε, σοι and σος. Dig into 712-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
thou
Modern gloss
you
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 G4771 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 →

712
distinct verses
The word appears in 712 distinct verses.
21 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 21 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:20
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:20.
Revelation 22:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:9.
#17
by frequency
Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 17 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 712 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 439 · 62%
  • Acts 98 · 14%
  • Pauline Epistles 99 · 14%
  • General Epistles 33 · 5%
  • Revelation 43 · 6%

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 712 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 439 verses · 62%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 243 verses · 34%
  • Johannine 167 verses · 23%
  • Pauline corpus 99 verses · 14%
  • Revelation 43 verses · 6%
  • Hebrews 18 verses · 3%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 15 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: Thou 172×, Art thou 3×
  • American Standard Version: Thou 155×, Art thou 4×, Thou wilt 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: You 1,826×, Your 694×, Do you 22×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: You 2,082×, Your 769×, Yourselves 22×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4771 across 178 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Thou” 172×
  • “Art thou” 3×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4771 across 174 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Thou” 155×
  • “Art thou” 4×
  • “Thou wilt” 2×

Plus 13 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 G4771 across 2,656 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “You” 1,826×
  • “Your” 694×
  • “Do you” 22×
  • “Yours” 12×
  • “Among you” 7×
  • “You yourselves” 6×
  • “Are you” 5×
  • “Can you” 5×
  • “Yourselves” 5×
  • “About your” 4×
  • “Let your” 4×
  • “Own” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 40 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 215 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4771 across 2,920 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “You” 2,082×
  • “Your” 769×
  • “Yourselves” 22×
  • “Yours” 15×
  • “Are” 8×
  • “Yourself” 7×
  • “Among you” 3×
  • “Against you” 2×
  • “You are” 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. you

Word origin

Origin: the person pronoun of the second person singular

the personal pronoun of the second person singular; thou : - thou. See also G4571 G4671 G4675 ; and for the plur. G5209 G5210 G5213 G5216 .

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



Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4771, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word συ appears 11,777 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5,911 verses in 38 books.

11,777
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
5,911
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 (G4771) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 5,911. 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 (G4771) 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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