ὥστε
so that
‘so that’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Conjunction
- A joining word linking words or clauses.
Every verse where G5620 appears in the Book of Romans — 5 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.
Romans
- Romans 7:4 ὥστε conj Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
- Romans 7:6 ὥστε conj But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
- Romans 7:12 ὥστε conj Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Romans 13:2 ὥστε conj Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
- Romans 15:19 ὥστε conj in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ;
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
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.
- #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
- Matthew 15 verses 18%
- 1 Corinthians 14 verses 17%
- Mark 13 verses 15%
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- so that, insomuch that
- so then, therefore, wherefore
Word origin
Derived from ως (hōs) (G5613) — as.
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
- Genesis 1:15 ὥστε
- Exodus 5:2 ὥστε
- Leviticus 5:22 ὥστε
- Numbers 5:8 ὥστε
- Deuteronomy 4:35 ὥστε
- Joshua 8:3 ὥστε
- Judges 3:1 ὥστε
- Ruth 4:5 ὥστε
- 1 Samuel 3:11 ὥστε
- 2 Samuel 2:17 ὥστε
- 2 Kings 9:37 ὥστε
- 2 Chronicles 6:6 ὥστε
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.
- Genesis 1:15 ὥστε and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 ὥστε God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 9:15 ὥστε 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 15:7 ὥστε He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
- Genesis 23:8 ὥστε He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 34:22 ὥστε Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 34:30 ὥστε Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
- Genesis 45:27 ὥστε They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
- Exodus 5:2 ὥστε Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
- Exodus 6:4 ὥστε I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
- Exodus 6:13 ὥστε Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:2 ὥστε You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
- Exodus 7:24 ὥστε All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 12:4 ὥστε and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:42 ὥστε It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
- Exodus 15:22 ὥστε Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
- Exodus 23:2 ὥστε You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
- Exodus 25:27 ὥστε the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
- Exodus 29:1 ὥστε "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
- Exodus 29:36 ὥστε Every day shall you offer the bull of sin-offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
- Exodus 29:42 ὥστε It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Exodus 30:4 ὥστε You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
- Exodus 30:18 ὥστε "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
- Exodus 30:38 ὥστε Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."
- Exodus 36:2 ὥστε Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
- Exodus 36:10 ὥστε He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
- Exodus 36:38 ὥστε and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.
- Exodus 38:4 ὥστε He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
- Exodus 38:10 ὥστε their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
- Exodus 38:24 ὥστε All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
- Exodus 39:12 ὥστε and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
- Exodus 40:15 ὥστε You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 5:22 ὥστε
- Leviticus 7:30 ὥστε With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:34 ὥστε What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
- Leviticus 14:21 ὥστε "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
- Leviticus 15:32 ὥστε This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
- Leviticus 16:10 ὥστε But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
- Leviticus 17:4 ὥστε and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
- Leviticus 20:5 ὥστε then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:6 ὥστε "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 22:33 ὥστε who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh."
- Leviticus 23:37 ὥστε "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
- Leviticus 25:28 ὥστε But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his propery.
- Leviticus 25:38 ὥστε I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
- Leviticus 26:15 ὥστε and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
- Leviticus 26:44 ὥστε Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
- Leviticus 27:2 ὥστε "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation.
- Numbers 5:8 ὥστε But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
- Numbers 7:1 ὥστε It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
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.
