Word

ἤτοι

ḗtoi · G2273 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. either … or

    A marker of double alternatives

    Examples

    Romans 6:16 Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
εἴτε eíte · G1535 · if … if, whether … or
εἴτε is a disjunctive particle expressing alternatives ('whether...or') that can function similarly to ἤτοι in introducing alternatives, though εἴτε more commonly appears in paired constructions (εἴτε...εἴτε)
Semantic domains 1 entry
Either … or89.140
In Romans 6:16, Paul asks, “you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness,” using this word in its correlative form to introduce an alternative.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see ἤ, 4 e.
see ἤ, 4 e.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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