σύ
you
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Personal pronoun
- Stands in for a person already named (“I,” “you,” “he”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
54 verses where G4771 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of John. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
John
- John 1:19 σὺ pron 2 nom sg This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
- John 1:21 σύ pron 2 nom sg They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."
- John 1:25 σὺ pron 2 nom sg They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- John 1:43 σὺ σὺ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 nom sg On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
- John 1:50 σὺ σὺ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 nom sg Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"
- John 2:10 σὺ pron 2 nom sg and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
- John 2:20 σὺ pron 2 nom sg The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
- John 3:2 σὺ pron 2 nom sg The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
- John 3:10 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
- John 3:26 σοῦ σὺ pron 2 gen sg pron 2 nom sg They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
- John 4:9 σὺ pron 2 nom sg The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
- John 4:10 σοι σὺ σοι pron 2 dat sg pron 2 nom sg pron 2 dat sg Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
- John 4:12 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle?"
- John 4:19 σύ pron 2 nom sg The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
- John 6:30 σὺ σοι pron 2 nom sg pron 2 dat sg They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
- John 6:69 σὺ pron 2 nom sg We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
- John 7:52 σὺ pron 2 nom sg They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
- John 8:5 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"
- John 8:13 σὺ σου pron 2 nom sg pron 2 gen sg The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
- John 8:25 σὺ pron 2 nom sg They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
- John 8:33 σὺ pron 2 nom sg They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
- John 8:48 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
- John 8:52 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
- John 8:53 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
- John 9:17 σὺ σου pron 2 nom sg pron 2 gen sg Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
- John 9:28 σὺ pron 2 nom sg They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
- John 9:34 σὺ σὺ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 nom sg They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
- John 9:35 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
- John 10:24 σὺ pron 2 nom sg The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
- John 10:33 σε σὺ pron 2 acc sg pron 2 nom sg The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
- John 11:27 σὺ pron 2 nom sg She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."
- John 11:42 σύ pron 2 nom sg I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
- John 12:34 σὺ pron 2 nom sg The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
- John 13:6 σύ pron 2 nom sg Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"
- John 13:7 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."
- John 14:9 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
- John 14:20 ὑμεῖς pron 2 nom pl In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
- John 17:5 σύ σοί pron 2 nom sg pron 2 dat sg Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
- John 17:8 σοῦ σύ pron 2 gen sg pron 2 nom sg for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
- John 17:21 σύ σοί σύ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 nom sg that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
- John 17:23 σὺ σύ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 nom sg I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
- John 17:25 σε σε σύ pron 2 acc sg pron 2 acc sg pron 2 nom sg Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
- John 18:17 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
- John 18:25 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
- John 18:33 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
- John 18:34 σὺ σοι pron 2 nom sg pron 2 dat sg Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"
- John 18:37 σύ σὺ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 nom sg Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
- John 19:9 σύ pron 2 nom sg He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
- John 20:15 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
- John 21:12 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord.
- John 21:15 σὺ σε pron 2 nom sg pron 2 acc sg So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
- John 21:16 σὺ σε pron 2 nom sg pron 2 acc sg He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
- John 21:17 σὺ σὺ σε pron 2 nom sg pron 2 nom sg pron 2 acc sg He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
- John 21:22 σέ σύ pron 2 acc sg pron 2 nom sg Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me."
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- you
Word origin
Origin: the person pronoun of the second person singular
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms G4771 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
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
- Genesis 1:29 σύ
- Exodus 2:7 σύ
- Leviticus 1:2 σύ
- Numbers 1:3 σύ
- Deuteronomy 1:6 σύ
- Joshua 1:2 σύ
- Judges 1:3 σύ
- Ruth 1:8 σύ
- 1 Samuel 1:8 σύ
- 2 Samuel 1:3 σύ
- 1 Kings 1:6 σύ
- 2 Kings 1:3 σύ
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.
- Genesis 1:29 σύ God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 3:5 σύ for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:10 σύ The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:11 σύ God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:14 σύ Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:15 σύ I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
- Genesis 3:16 σύ To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 3:17 σύ To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:18 σύ Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
- Genesis 3:19 σύ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 4:6 σύ Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
- Genesis 4:7 σύ If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
- Genesis 4:9 σύ Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:10 σύ Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 4:11 σύ Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 4:12 σύ From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 4:14 σύ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
- Genesis 6:18 σύ But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 6:20 σύ Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
- Genesis 6:21 σύ Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 7:1 σύ Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:2 σύ You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
- Genesis 8:16 σύ "Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 8:17 σύ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 9:2 σύ The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 9:3 σύ Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Genesis 9:5 σύ I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
- Genesis 9:7 σύ Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
- Genesis 9:9 σύ "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- Genesis 9:10 σύ and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.
- Genesis 9:11 σύ I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
- Genesis 9:12 σύ God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:15 σύ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 12:1 σύ Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
- Genesis 12:2 σύ I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Genesis 12:3 σύ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
- Genesis 12:7 σύ Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 12:12 σύ It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
- Genesis 12:13 σύ Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
- Genesis 12:18 σύ Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- Genesis 12:19 σύ Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 13:8 σύ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Genesis 13:9 σύ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
- Genesis 13:14 σύ Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 13:15 σύ for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Genesis 13:16 σύ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
- Genesis 13:17 σύ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you."
- Genesis 14:20 σύ and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- Genesis 15:1 σύ After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
- Genesis 15:4 σύ Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
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.
