Greek · G3748 · unreviewed

ὅστις

Who/which

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ὅστις G3748

Pronunciation hóstis

What does ὅστις (hóstis) mean in the Bible?

ὅστις (hóstis) is a Greek word meaning "who/which". ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ τι (also written ὅ, τι and ὅτι; see LS, see word; WH, §411; Tdf.

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Meaning

who/which

Extended definition

whoever, anyone who;

aof an indef. person or thing: in general statements, Mat.5:39, 41 13:12, and freq., Luk.14:27, Gal.5:4, al.; in relative sentences, Mat.7:26, Luk.15:7, Php.3:7, al.; πᾶς, with indic., Mat.7:24 10:32; ὅ ἄν (ἐάν), with subjc., Mat.12:50 13:12, Jhn.14:13, 1Co.16:2, Gal.5:10, al.;

bof a definite person or thing, indicating quality, "either generic, which, as other like things, or essential, which by its very nature" (Hort on 1Pe.2:11), who is such as: Mat.2:6 7:26, Luk.2:10 7:37, Jhn.8:53, Act.7:53, Rom.6:2, 1Co.3:17, Gal.4:24, Eph.1:23, al.; __(with) where the relative sentence expresses a reason, consequence, etc. (M, Pr., 92), seeing that he (it, they), and he (it, they): Luk.8:3 10:42, Act.10:47 11:28, Php.4:3, al.;

das in Ionic and late Greek (Bl., §50, 1; M, Pr., l.with), differing but little from ὅς: Luk.2:4 9:30, Act.17:10, Rev.12:13.

Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith

Grammatical Forms

How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.

Nominative · Plural · Masculine Matt 7:15 · Matt 16:28 · Matt 19:12 · Matt 21:41 · Matt 23:27 · Mark 4:20 · Mark 9:1 · Mark 12:18 · Mark 15:7 · Luke 1:20 · Luke 8:15 · Luke 9:30 · Luke 15:7 · Acts 5:16 · Acts 7:53 · Acts 8:15 60×

Nominative · Singular · Feminine Matt 27:62 · Luke 2:4 · Luke 2:10 · Luke 7:37 · Luke 7:39 · Luke 8:26 · Luke 8:43 · Luke 10:42 · Luke 12:1 · Acts 3:23 · Acts 11:28 · Acts 12:10 · Acts 16:12 · Acts 16:16 · Rom 16:6 · Rom 16:12 38×

Nominative · Singular · Masculine Matt 2:6 · Matt 5:39 · Matt 5:41 · Matt 7:24 · Matt 7:26 · Matt 10:32 · Matt 10:33 · Matt 12:50 · Matt 13:12 · Matt 13:52 · Matt 18:4 · Matt 19:29 · Matt 20:1 · Matt 21:33 · Matt 22:2 · Matt 23:12 26×

Nominative · Plural · Feminine Matt 25:1 · Matt 27:55 · Luke 8:3 · Luke 23:55 · Phil 4:3 · 1 Tim 1:4 · 1 Tim 6:9 · Heb 10:8 · Heb 10:11 · 1 Pet 2:11 10×

Nominative · Plural · Neuter John 21:25 · Gal 4:24 · Gal 5:19 · Phil 3:7 · Col 2:23 5×

Genitive · Singular · Masculine Matt 5:25 · Luke 12:50 · Luke 13:8 · Luke 22:16 · John 9:18 5×

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Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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