ὥστε
hṓste · G5620 · Greek · 84 occurrences
Meanings
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A marker of result, often in contexts implying an intended or indirect purpose (therefore, (so) accordingly, as a result, so that, so then, and so)
ExamplesMatthew 8:24 And behold, a violent storm developed on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.
Matthew 8:28 And when He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men confronted Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.
Matthew 12:12 “How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
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then, in order to, so that
A marker of purpose, with the implication that what has preceded serves as a means
ExamplesMatthew 10:1 Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
Matthew 27:1 Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;
Luke 4:29 and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and brought Him to the crest of the hill on which their city had been built, so that they could throw Him down from the cliff.
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher · H834 · that, which, where
- Greek ὥστε specifically marks result/consequence clauses ('so that', 'with the result that'), while Hebrew אֲשֶׁר is a broader relative/subordinating particle that can introduce various clause types including result but primarily functions as a relative pronoun ('which', 'that', 'who') or general subordinator; the overlap occurs in consequential/causal contexts where both languages mark logical relationships, but ὥστε is narrower and more specialized for result-marking than the multipurpose אֲשֶׁר.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Therefore, (so) accordingly, as a result, so that, so then, and so89.52
- Matthew 8:24 recounts that “a violent storm developed on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep”.
- Then, in order to, so that89.61
- Matthew 12:12 has Jesus conclude, “How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from ὡς and the enclitic τέ (Tdf. Proleg., p. 110)), a consecutive conjunction, i. e.…
1. so that (A. V. frequently insomuch that);
a. with an infinitive (or accusative and infinitive) (Buttmann, § 142, 3; the neg. in this construction is μή, Buttmann, § 148, 6; Winer's Grammar, 480 (447)): preceded by the demonstrative οὕτως, Acts 14:1; τοσοῦτος, Mt 15:33 (so many loaves as to fill etc.); without a demonstrative preceding (where ὥστε defines more accurately the magnitude, extent, or quantity), Mt 8:24, Mt 8:28; Mt 12:22; Mt 13:2, Mt 13:32, Mt 13:54; Mt 15:31; Mt 27:14; Mk 1:27, Mk 1:45; Mk 2:2, Mk 2:12; Mk 3:10, Mk 3:20; Mk 4:1, Mk 4:32, Mk 4:37; Mk 9:26; Mk 15:5; Lk 5:7; Lk 12:1; Acts 1:19; Acts 5:15; Acts 15:39; Acts 16:26; Acts 19:10, Acts 19:12, Acts 19:16; Rom 7:6; Rom 15:19; 1 Cor 1:7; 1 Cor 5:1; 1 Cor 13:2; 2 Cor 1:8; 2 Cor 2:7; 2 Cor 3:7; 2 Cor 7:7; Phm 1:13; 1 Thess 1:7; 2 Thess 1:4; 2 Thess 2:4; Heb 13:6; 1 Pet 1:21; it is used also of a designed result, so as to equivalent to in order to, for to, Mt 10:1; Mt 24:24 (their design); ; Lk 4:29 (Rec. εἰς τό); (L marginal reading WH ὡς, which see III.); and L T Tr WH in Lk 20:20 (R G εἰς τό) (1 Macc. 1:49 1 Macc. 4:2, 28 1 Macc. 10:3; 2 Macc. 2:6; Thucydides 4, 23; Xenophon, Cyril 3, 2, 16; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 5, 10; Eus. h. e. 3, 28, 3 (cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word, 5)); cf. Winers Grammar, 318 (298); Buttmann, § 139, 50 Rem.
b. so that, with the indicative (Buttmann, 244 (210); cf. Winer's Grammar, 301 (283); Meyer or Ellicott on Galatians, as below): Gal 2:13, and often in secular authors; preceded by οὕτως, Jn 3:16.
2. so then, therefore, wherefore: with the indicative (cf. Passow, under the word, II. 1 b., vol. ii., p. 2639{b}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word B. II. 2; the neg. in this construction is οὐ, Buttmann, § 148, 5)), Mt 12:12; Mt 19:6; Mt 23:31; Mk 2:28; Mk 10:8; Rom 7:4, Rom 7:12; Rom 13:2; 1 Cor 3:7; 1 Cor 7:38; 1 Cor 11:27; 1 Cor 14:22; 2 Cor 4:12; 2 Cor 5:16; Gal 3:9, Gal 3:24; Gal 4:7, Gal 4:16; once with a hortatory subjunctive, 1 Cor 5:8 (here L marginal reading indicative). before an imperative: 1 Cor 3:21; (); 1 Cor 10:12; 1 Cor 11:33; 1 Cor 14:39; ; Phm 2:12; Phm 4:1; 1 Thess 4:18; Jas 1:19 (L T Tr WH read ἴστε; cf. p. 174{a} top); 1 Pet 4:19.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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