τοσοῦτος
so great
‘so great’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Demonstrative pronoun
- Points something out (“this,” “that”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 verses where G5118 appears in the Accusative 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.
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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.
τοσουτος (tosoûtos) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “so great.” Its English rendering has broadened — “much” classically, “many” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 18 verses — uncommon. Hebrews dominates its distribution — 5 of 18 verses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5118 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #622
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 622 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 18 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 18 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 44%
- Johannine 6 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 28%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 11%
- Revelation 2 verses · 11%
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: Much 6×, Great 5×, Many 4×
- American Standard Version: Great 6×, Many 6×, Much 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Many 4×, Great 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Many 6×, Much 5×, Great 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5118 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G5118 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5118 across 20 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5118 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 2 senses 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.
- of quantity: so great, so many
- of time: so long
Word origin
Derived from ο (ho) (G3588).
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G5118 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τοσαῦτα tosaûta | Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 15:29 | 4 |
| τοσοῦτον tosoûton | Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 15:33 | 4 |
| τοσούτῳ tosoútō | Demonstrative pronoun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | John 14:9 | 3 |
| τοσαύτην tosaútēn | Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 8:10 | 2 |
| τοσούτου tosoútou | Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Acts 5:8 | 2 |
| τοσούτους tosoútous | Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | John 6:9 | 1 |
| τοσούτων tosoútōn | Demonstrative pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | John 21:11 | 1 |
| τοσοῦτο tosoûto | Demonstrative pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 7:22 | 1 |
| τοσοῦτοι tosoûtoi | Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 15:33 | 1 |
| τοσοῦτος tosoûtos | Demonstrative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 18:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5118, 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
- τανυν tanŷn G3569 present
- οδε hóde G3592 this
- οιος hoîos G3634 what sort of
- ος hós G3739 who
- ουτος hoûtos G3778 this
- σημερον sḗmeron G4594 this day
- ταυτα tautá G5024 thus
- τηλικουτος tēlikoûtos G5082 of such size
- τοι toí G5104 truly
- τοτε tóte G5119 then
- του toû G5120 his
- τουναντιον tounantíon G5121 on the contrary
- τουνομα toúnoma G5122 by name
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- θεος theós G2316 God
- ο ων και ο ην και ο ερχομενος ho ṑn kaí ho ēn kaí ho erchómenos G3801 He who is
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 17 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τοσουτος appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 1:12 τοσοῦτος
- Numbers 15:5 τοσοῦτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5118) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 1:12 τοσοῦτος But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 15:5 τοσοῦτος and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5118) 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.
