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.
44 verses where G4771 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 1:3 σοι pron 2 dat sg it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
- Luke 1:13 σου σου σοι pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 dat sg But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
- Luke 1:14 σοι pron 2 dat sg You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.
- Luke 1:19 σὲ σοι pron 2 acc sg pron 2 dat sg The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
- Luke 1:35 σέ σοι pron 2 acc sg pron 2 dat sg The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
- Luke 3:22 σὺ σοὶ pron 2 nom sg pron 2 dat sg and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased."
- Luke 4:6 σοὶ pron 2 dat sg The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
- Luke 4:34 σοί σε pron 2 dat sg pron 2 acc sg saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
- Luke 5:20 σοι σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
- Luke 5:23 σοι σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'
- Luke 5:24 σοὶ σου σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."
- Luke 7:14 σοὶ pron 2 dat sg He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
- Luke 7:40 σοί pron 2 dat sg Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."
- Luke 7:47 σοι pron 2 dat sg Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
- Luke 8:28 σοί σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"
- Luke 8:30 σοι pron 2 dat sg Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.
- Luke 8:39 σου σοι pron 2 gen sg pron 2 dat sg "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
- Luke 9:33 σοὶ pron 2 dat sg It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
- Luke 9:57 σοι pron 2 dat sg As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord."
- Luke 9:61 σοι pron 2 dat sg Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."
- Luke 10:12 ὑμῖν pron 2 dat pl I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
- Luke 10:13 σοι σοι pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- Luke 10:21 σοι σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."
- Luke 10:35 σοι pron 2 dat sg On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
- Luke 10:36 σοι pron 2 dat sg Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
- Luke 10:40 σοι pron 2 dat sg But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
- Luke 11:7 σοι pron 2 dat sg and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?
- Luke 11:35 σοὶ pron 2 dat sg Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.
- Luke 12:59 σοι pron 2 dat sg I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."
- Luke 14:9 σὲ σοι pron 2 acc sg pron 2 dat sg and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
- Luke 14:10 σε σοι σοι σοι pron 2 acc sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
- Luke 14:12 σου σου σου σε σοι pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 acc sg pron 2 dat sg He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
- Luke 14:14 σοι σοι pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."
- Luke 15:29 σοι σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
- Luke 18:11 σοι pron 2 dat sg The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Luke 18:22 σοι pron 2 dat sg When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
- Luke 18:28 σοι pron 2 dat sg Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
- Luke 18:41 σοι pron 2 dat sg "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again."
- Luke 19:43 σέ σου σοι σε σε pron 2 acc sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 acc sg pron 2 acc sg For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
- Luke 19:44 σε σου σοί σοί σου pron 2 acc sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
- Luke 20:2 σοι pron 2 dat sg They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
- Luke 22:11 σοι pron 2 dat sg Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
- Luke 22:34 σοι pron 2 dat sg He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."
- Luke 23:43 σοι pron 2 dat sg Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
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.
