Strong G3699ὅπου
where(-ever)
- Transliteration
- hopou
- Pronunciation
- hop'-oo
- Morphology
- Greek Conjunction
Definition
Detailed definition
ὅπου
adv.
of place, correlat. of ποῦ (which see), where.
I. Prop., of place,
1. where;
__(a) in relative sentences, with indic: Mat.25:24, 26, Mrk.2:4 4:5, 15 5:40 13:14, Jhn.3:8 6:62 7:34, 36 11:32 14:3 17:24 20:19, Rom.15:20, Rev.2:13; after nouns of place, for relat. prepositional phrase (ἐν ᾧ., etc.), Mat.6:19-20 13:5 26:57 28:6, Mrk.6:55 9:48 Luk.12:33, Jhn.1:28 4:20, 46 6:23 7:42 10:40 11:30 12:1 18:1, 20 19:18, 20 19:41 20:12, Act.17:1, Rev.2:13 11:8 20:10; before ἐκεῖ., Mat.6:21, Luk.12:34 17:37 Jhn.12:26; id. pleonast. (= Heb. שָׁם... אֲשֶׁר; Aram. תַּמָּן.. דּ; of. Gen.13:3), ὅ.... ἐκεῖ, Rev.12:6, 14; ὅ.... ἐπ᾽ αὐτῶν, Rev.17:9; ὅ. ἄν, wherever (M, Pr., 168), with imperfect indic., Mrk.6:56; with Pres. subjc., Mat.24:28; ὅ. ἐάν, Mat.26:13, Mrk.6:10 9:18 14:9, 14 a;
__(b) in quaest. indir., with aor. subjc.: Mrk.14:14 b, Luk.22:11.
2. In late writers (sometimes also in cl.; Bl., § 25, 2), with verbs of motion, = ὅποι, whither: with indic., Jhn.8:21-22 13:33, 36 14:4 21:18, Heb.6:20, Jas.3:4; ὅ. ἄν, whithersoever, with present ind., Rev.14:4; subjc., Luk.9:57; ὅ. ἐάν, Mat.8:19.
II. Without strict local sense,
1. of time or condition: Col.3:11, Heb.9:16 10:18, Jas.3:16, 2Pe.2:11.
2. Of cause or reason (AV, whereas): 1Co.3:3.†
(AS)
adv.
of place, correlat. of ποῦ (which see), where.
I. Prop., of place,
1. where;
__(a) in relative sentences, with indic: Mat.25:24, 26, Mrk.2:4 4:5, 15 5:40 13:14, Jhn.3:8 6:62 7:34, 36 11:32 14:3 17:24 20:19, Rom.15:20, Rev.2:13; after nouns of place, for relat. prepositional phrase (ἐν ᾧ., etc.), Mat.6:19-20 13:5 26:57 28:6, Mrk.6:55 9:48 Luk.12:33, Jhn.1:28 4:20, 46 6:23 7:42 10:40 11:30 12:1 18:1, 20 19:18, 20 19:41 20:12, Act.17:1, Rev.2:13 11:8 20:10; before ἐκεῖ., Mat.6:21, Luk.12:34 17:37 Jhn.12:26; id. pleonast. (= Heb. שָׁם... אֲשֶׁר; Aram. תַּמָּן.. דּ; of. Gen.13:3), ὅ.... ἐκεῖ, Rev.12:6, 14; ὅ.... ἐπ᾽ αὐτῶν, Rev.17:9; ὅ. ἄν, wherever (M, Pr., 168), with imperfect indic., Mrk.6:56; with Pres. subjc., Mat.24:28; ὅ. ἐάν, Mat.26:13, Mrk.6:10 9:18 14:9, 14 a;
__(b) in quaest. indir., with aor. subjc.: Mrk.14:14 b, Luk.22:11.
2. In late writers (sometimes also in cl.; Bl., § 25, 2), with verbs of motion, = ὅποι, whither: with indic., Jhn.8:21-22 13:33, 36 14:4 21:18, Heb.6:20, Jas.3:4; ὅ. ἄν, whithersoever, with present ind., Rev.14:4; subjc., Luk.9:57; ὅ. ἐάν, Mat.8:19.
II. Without strict local sense,
1. of time or condition: Col.3:11, Heb.9:16 10:18, Jas.3:16, 2Pe.2:11.
2. Of cause or reason (AV, whereas): 1Co.3:3.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3699 appears in 77 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- where55
- whither8
- wheresoever6
- whithersoever5
- whereas2
- place1
First verses
- Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- Matthew 6:20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
- Matthew 6:21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- Matthew 8:19And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- Matthew 13:5Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
- Matthew 24:28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
- Matthew 25:24Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
- Matthew 25:26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
- Matthew 26:13Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
- Matthew 26:57And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
- Matthew 28:6He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
- Mark 2:4And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
- Mark 4:5And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
- Mark 4:15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
- Mark 5:40And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
- Mark 6:10And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
- Mark 6:55And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
- Mark 6:56And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
- Mark 9:18And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
- Mark 9:44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὅπου,
Ionic dialect ὅκου, Relat., indirect interrogative, and indefinite adverb of Place, correlated to ποῦ:
I as a Relat., sometimes with genitive loci, τῆς πόλεως ὅπου κάλλιστον στρατοπεδεύσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 415d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.172; ὅπου βούλοιτο τοῦ δρόμου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.27; ἔσθ᾽ ὅπου)]in some places, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 517 (Lyric poetry), “fragment” 302: standing for the Relat.)] adjective, μέλη, ὅπου (i. e. ἐν οἷς)[Refs 5th c.BC+ (χελιδὼν ἦν τις ἐμπεποιημένη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1301)]: with other Particles, ὅκου δή somewhere or other, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.129)]; ὅπου ἄν wherever, with subjunctive, [Refs (“IG” 12.76.11, etc.)]; in Trag. the ἄν may be omitted, as ὅπου δ᾽ Ἀπόλλων σκαιὸς ᾖ, τίνες σοφο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 972, etc. (never in _Attic dialect_ Prose))]: with genitive, ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ τῶν λεγομένων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 342e; ὁπουοῦν)]anywheresoever, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cra.” 403c)]; ὅπουπερ with optative, wherever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.5; ὅπου ποτέ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 12)]; ὁπουδάν, ={ὅπου δὲ ἄν}, anywhere, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 109.21)]; ὁπουδήποτε, = ubicumque, Dosith.p.410 K.; ὁπουδηποτοῦν anywheresoever, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 2.15.)]
I.2 in indirect questions, ὄφρα πύθηαι πατρός, ὅπου κύθε γαῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.16, compare 16.306, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 924, etc.)]: with Verbs of motion in pregnant sense, ὅκου ἐτράπετο, οὐκέτι εἶχον εἰπεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.119; κεῖνος δ᾽ ὅπου βέβηκεν, οὐδεὶς οἶδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 40, variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.37, etc.: in many passages editors have in this sense restored ὅποι,)] mostly from codices; in repeating a question, ἡ Λακεδαίμων ποῦ 'στι; Answ. ὅπου 'στί; (do you ask) where it is? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 214: with _genitive_, εἰδότες ὅκου γῆς εἴη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.150, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 403e.)]
II the strict local sense occasionally passes into,
II.1 a sense involving Time or Occasion, ὅ. τιν᾽ ἴδῃ [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 922, compare 999, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.6; σιγᾶν θ᾽ ὅ. δεῖ καὶ λέγειν τὰ καίρια 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 582, compare “Eu.” 277)]; οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὅ. there is no case in which, i.e. in no case. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 448, “Aj.” 1069, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 186, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.35)]; so ἔστιν ὅ.; as a question, [Refs ([prev. author] 18.22.)]
II.2 of Cause, whereas, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.68, 4.195, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.7; ὅ. γὰρ ἐγὼ.. ὁμολογῶ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.205)]; ὅκου γε, Latin quandoquidem or quippe, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.118; ὅπου γε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.11, etc.)]
B later as a demonstrative adverb, only in the phrase ὅ. μέν.., ὅ. δέ.. here.., there.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.427c, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.53, etc.)]
Ionic dialect ὅκου, Relat., indirect interrogative, and indefinite adverb of Place, correlated to ποῦ:
I as a Relat., sometimes with genitive loci, τῆς πόλεως ὅπου κάλλιστον στρατοπεδεύσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 415d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.172; ὅπου βούλοιτο τοῦ δρόμου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.27; ἔσθ᾽ ὅπου)]in some places, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 517 (Lyric poetry), “fragment” 302: standing for the Relat.)] adjective, μέλη, ὅπου (i. e. ἐν οἷς)[Refs 5th c.BC+ (χελιδὼν ἦν τις ἐμπεποιημένη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1301)]: with other Particles, ὅκου δή somewhere or other, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.129)]; ὅπου ἄν wherever, with subjunctive, [Refs (“IG” 12.76.11, etc.)]; in Trag. the ἄν may be omitted, as ὅπου δ᾽ Ἀπόλλων σκαιὸς ᾖ, τίνες σοφο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 972, etc. (never in _Attic dialect_ Prose))]: with genitive, ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ τῶν λεγομένων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 342e; ὁπουοῦν)]anywheresoever, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cra.” 403c)]; ὅπουπερ with optative, wherever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.5; ὅπου ποτέ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 12)]; ὁπουδάν, ={ὅπου δὲ ἄν}, anywhere, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 109.21)]; ὁπουδήποτε, = ubicumque, Dosith.p.410 K.; ὁπουδηποτοῦν anywheresoever, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 2.15.)]
I.2 in indirect questions, ὄφρα πύθηαι πατρός, ὅπου κύθε γαῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.16, compare 16.306, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 924, etc.)]: with Verbs of motion in pregnant sense, ὅκου ἐτράπετο, οὐκέτι εἶχον εἰπεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.119; κεῖνος δ᾽ ὅπου βέβηκεν, οὐδεὶς οἶδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 40, variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.37, etc.: in many passages editors have in this sense restored ὅποι,)] mostly from codices; in repeating a question, ἡ Λακεδαίμων ποῦ 'στι; Answ. ὅπου 'στί; (do you ask) where it is? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 214: with _genitive_, εἰδότες ὅκου γῆς εἴη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.150, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 403e.)]
II the strict local sense occasionally passes into,
II.1 a sense involving Time or Occasion, ὅ. τιν᾽ ἴδῃ [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 922, compare 999, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.6; σιγᾶν θ᾽ ὅ. δεῖ καὶ λέγειν τὰ καίρια 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 582, compare “Eu.” 277)]; οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὅ. there is no case in which, i.e. in no case. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 448, “Aj.” 1069, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 186, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.35)]; so ἔστιν ὅ.; as a question, [Refs ([prev. author] 18.22.)]
II.2 of Cause, whereas, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.68, 4.195, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.7; ὅ. γὰρ ἐγὼ.. ὁμολογῶ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.205)]; ὅκου γε, Latin quandoquidem or quippe, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.118; ὅπου γε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.11, etc.)]
B later as a demonstrative adverb, only in the phrase ὅ. μέν.., ὅ. δέ.. here.., there.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.427c, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.53, etc.)]