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αὐτός

he

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G846 Strong's Greek
autós Transliteration
/ow-tos'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 5,556 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.

αυτος (autós) is a Greek word most often rendered “he.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:2. It turns up in 3,709 verses across 27 books, one of the most common footprint. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It clusters with αηρ, αετος and ανεμος under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
her
Modern gloss
he
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 G846 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 →

3,709
distinct verses
The word appears in 3,709 distinct verses.
27 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:2.
Revelation 22:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:19.
#3
by frequency
Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 3 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 3,709 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2,275 · 61%
  • Acts 504 · 14%
  • Pauline Epistles 429 · 12%
  • General Epistles 258 · 7%
  • Revelation 243 · 7%

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 3,709 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 2,275 verses · 61%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1,196 verses · 32%
  • Johannine 831 verses · 22%
  • Pauline corpus 429 verses · 12%
  • Revelation 243 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 160 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 98 verses · 3%

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: Him 1,940×, Them 1,129×, His 1,081×
  • American Standard Version: Him 1,799×, Them 1,045×, His 997×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Him 1,170×, His 883×, Them 707×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Him 1,901×, Them 1,133×, His 1,045×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G846 across 5,665 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Him” 1,940×
  • “Them” 1,129×
  • “His” 1,081×
  • “Their” 313×
  • “He” 246×
  • “Her” 244×
  • “It” 187×
  • “They” 117×
  • “Same” 75×
  • “Own” 47×
  • “Himself” 43×
  • “Thereof” 30×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 67 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 122 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G846 across 5,555 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Him” 1,799×
  • “Them” 1,045×
  • “His” 997×
  • “Their” 302×
  • “He” 245×
  • “Her” 240×
  • “It” 170×
  • “They” 115×
  • “Same” 51×
  • “Himself” 49×
  • “The” 41×
  • “Thereof” 35×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 208 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 22 further occurrences.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G846 across 4,053 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Him” 1,170×
  • “His” 883×
  • “Them” 707×
  • “Their” 276×
  • “Her” 183×
  • “He” 144×
  • “It” 141×
  • “They” 106×
  • “Its” 57×
  • “To” 43×
  • “Same” 40×
  • “Himself” 32×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 61 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 1,464 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G846 across 5,591 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Him” 1,901×
  • “Them” 1,133×
  • “His” 1,045×
  • “Their” 322×
  • “Her” 256×
  • “It” 249×
  • “He” 210×
  • “They” 113×
  • “Himself” 71×
  • “Same” 64×
  • “Its” 52×
  • “Themselves” 21×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 26 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 3 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. himself, herself, themselves, itself
  2. he, she, it
  3. the same

Word origin

Derived from αηρ (aḗr) (G109) — air.

From the particle αὖ au (perhaps akin to the base of G109 through the idea of a baffling wind; backward ); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438 ) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons : - her it (-self) one the other (mine) own said ([self-] the) same ([him- my- thy-]) self [your-] selves she that their (-s) them ([-selves]) there [-at -by -in -into -of -on -with] they (these) things this (man) those together very which. Compare G848 .

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


Forms in the corpus

The 29 distinct written forms G846 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
αὐτοῦ autoû Personal pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:2 1,404
αὐτῷ autō̂ Personal pronoun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:20 854
αὐτὸν autòn Personal pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:5 645
αὐτῶν autō̂n Personal pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 1:21 564
αὐτοῖς autoîs Personal pronoun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 3:7 552
αὐτόν autón Personal pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 3:15 306
αὐτοὺς autoùs Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 1:18 216
αὐτῆς autē̂s Personal pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 1:19 166
αὐτὸς autòs Personal pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:21 145
αὐτούς autoús Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 4:21 143
αὐτῇ autē̂ Personal pronoun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 1:20 110
αὐτοὶ autoì Personal pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:4 82
αὐτὸ autò Personal pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 5:46 75
αὐτήν autḗn Personal pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 1:19 69
αὐτὴν autḕn Personal pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 1:19 68
αὐτὰ autà Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 10:1 33
αὐτό autó Personal pronoun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 2:13 32
αὐτά autá Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 6:26 22
αὐτός autós Personal pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 11:14 19
αὐταῖς autaîs Personal pronoun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 28:9 17
αὐτὴ autḕ Personal pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 10:12 11
αὐτὰς autàs Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Mark 16:8 9
Αὐτὸς Autòs Personal pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 6:17 4
αὐτάς autás Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Luke 24:5 3
αὐτοί autoí Personal pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 20:10 3
Αὐτοὶ Autoì Personal pronoun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Thessalonians 2:1 1
Αὐτῶν Autō̂n Personal pronoun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 9:32 1
αυτου autou Personal pronoun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine John 7:53 1
σὐτούς sytoús Personal pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 17:14 1


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αυτος appears 22,367 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11,866 verses in 38 books.

22,367
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
11,866
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

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G846) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 11,866. 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 (G846) 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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