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.
Every verse where G4771 appears in the Book of Revelation — 43 distinct verses. 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 2:2 σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
- Revelation 2:4 σοῦ σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
- Revelation 2:5 σοι σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Revelation 2:9 σου pron 2 gen sg "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
- Revelation 2:10 σοι pron 2 dat sg Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
- Revelation 2:14 σοῦ pron 2 gen sg But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
- Revelation 2:15 σὺ pron 2 nom sg So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.
- Revelation 2:16 σοι pron 2 dat sg Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
- Revelation 2:19 σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
- Revelation 2:20 σοῦ pron 2 gen sg But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
- Revelation 3:1 σου pron 2 gen sg "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
- Revelation 3:2 σου pron 2 gen sg Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
- Revelation 3:3 σέ pron 2 acc sg Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
- Revelation 3:8 σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.
- Revelation 3:9 σου σε pron 2 gen sg pron 2 acc sg Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
- Revelation 3:10 σε pron 2 acc sg Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
- Revelation 3:11 σου pron 2 gen sg I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
- Revelation 3:15 σου pron 2 gen sg "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
- Revelation 3:16 σε pron 2 acc sg So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
- Revelation 3:17 σὺ pron 2 nom sg Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
- Revelation 3:18 σοι σου σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
- Revelation 4:1 σοι pron 2 dat sg After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."
- Revelation 4:11 σὺ σου pron 2 nom sg pron 2 gen sg "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"
- Revelation 5:9 σου pron 2 gen sg They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Revelation 7:14 σὺ pron 2 nom sg I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
- Revelation 10:9 σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."
- Revelation 10:11 σε pron 2 acc sg They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."
- Revelation 11:17 σοι σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
- Revelation 11:18 σου σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
- Revelation 14:15 σου pron 2 gen sg Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"
- Revelation 14:18 σου pron 2 gen sg Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
- Revelation 15:3 σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Revelation 15:4 σου σου σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed."
- Revelation 16:7 σου pron 2 gen sg I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."
- Revelation 17:1 σοι pron 2 dat sg One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
- Revelation 17:7 σοι pron 2 dat sg The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
- Revelation 18:10 σου pron 2 gen sg standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'
- Revelation 18:14 σου σοῦ σοῦ pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
- Revelation 18:22 σοὶ σοὶ σοὶ pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
- Revelation 18:23 σοὶ σοὶ σου σου pron 2 dat sg pron 2 dat sg pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
- Revelation 19:10 σού σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
- Revelation 21:9 σοι pron 2 dat sg One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."
- Revelation 22:9 σού σου pron 2 gen sg pron 2 gen sg He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
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.
