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ὥστε

so that

‘so that’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G5620 Strong's Greek
hṓste Transliteration
/hoce'-teh/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 84 appearances

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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.

“so that” is the headline sense of the Greek word ωστε (hṓste). The King James Version also renders it “wherefore,” a usage modern versions have dropped for “that” — see the renderings breakdown. It appears 84 verses across 14 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 8:24. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 84-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
as
Modern gloss
so that
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 G5620 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 →

84
distinct verses
The word appears in 84 distinct verses.
14 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 14 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 8:24
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 8:24.
1 Peter 4:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 4:19.
#204
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 204 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 84 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 34 · 40%
  • Acts 8 · 10%
  • Pauline Epistles 39 · 46%
  • General Epistles 3 · 4%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 84 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 39 verses · 46%
  • Gospels 34 verses · 40%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 15%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 1%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 1%

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: That 17×, Wherefore 17×, So 16×
  • American Standard Version: That 28×, Wherefore 16×, Insomuch that 15×
  • Berean Standard Bible: That 26×, So 18×, Therefore 13×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 39×, Then 16×, Therefore 13×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5620 across 82 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 17×
  • “Wherefore” 17×
  • “So” 16×
  • “Insomuch that” 11×
  • “Therefore” 8×
  • “Insomuch” 5×
  • “To” 3×
  • “Then” 2×

Plus 3 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 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5620 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 28×
  • “Wherefore” 16×
  • “Insomuch that” 15×
  • “So” 9×
  • “To” 4×
  • “Then” 3×

Plus 6 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 G5620 across 77 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 26×
  • “So” 18×
  • “Therefore” 13×
  • “Result” 4×
  • “Then” 4×
  • “To” 4×
  • “Consequently” 2×
  • “Order” 2×

Plus 4 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 4 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5620 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 39×
  • “Then” 16×
  • “Therefore” 13×
  • “As” 8×
  • “Result” 4×
  • “So” 2×

Plus 3 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.

  1. so that, insomuch that
  2. so then, therefore, wherefore

Word origin

Derived from ως (hōs) (G5613) — as.

From G5613 and G5037 ; so too that is thus therefore (in various relations of consecution as shown): - (insomuch) as so that (then) (insomuch) that therefore to wherefore.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G5620 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὥστε hṓste Conjunction Matthew 8:24 82
Ὥστε Hṓste Conjunction Philippians 2:12 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5620, 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

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ωστε appears 120 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 114 verses in 21 books.

120
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
114
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
21 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 21 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5620) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 114. 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 (G5620) 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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