Strong G3767οὖν
therefore/then
- Transliteration
- oun
- Pronunciation
- oon
- Morphology
- Greek Conjunction
Definition
Apparently a primary word; (adverbially) certainly or (conjugationally) accordingly: - and (so truly) but now (then) so (likewise then) then therefore verily wherefore.
Detailed definition
οὖν,
particle
expressing consequence or simple sequence (never standing first in a sentence), wherefore, therefore, then: Mat.3:10, Luk.3:9, Jhn.8:38, Act.1:21, Rom.5:9, al.; in exhortations, Mat.3:8, Luk.11:35, Act.3:19, Rom.6:12, al.; in questions, Mat.13:28, Mrk.15:12, Jhn.8:[5], Rom.6:1, al.; continuing a narrative or resuming it after a digression, Mat.1:17, Luk.3:18, Jhn.1:22 2:18 (and very frequently in this Gospel), Act.26:22, al.; ἄρα οὖν (see: ἄρα); ἐπεὶ οὖν, Heb.2:14; οὖν with ptcp. (= ἐπεὶ οὖν), Act.2:30, Rom.5:1, al.; ἐὰν οὖν (where οὖν rather in sense belongs to the apodosis), Mat.5:23, Luk.4:7, Jhn.6:62, Rom.2:26, al.; ὡς οὖν, Jhn.4:1, al.
(AS)
particle
expressing consequence or simple sequence (never standing first in a sentence), wherefore, therefore, then: Mat.3:10, Luk.3:9, Jhn.8:38, Act.1:21, Rom.5:9, al.; in exhortations, Mat.3:8, Luk.11:35, Act.3:19, Rom.6:12, al.; in questions, Mat.13:28, Mrk.15:12, Jhn.8:[5], Rom.6:1, al.; continuing a narrative or resuming it after a digression, Mat.1:17, Luk.3:18, Jhn.1:22 2:18 (and very frequently in this Gospel), Act.26:22, al.; ἄρα οὖν (see: ἄρα); ἐπεὶ οὖν, Heb.2:14; οὖν with ptcp. (= ἐπεὶ οὖν), Act.2:30, Rom.5:1, al.; ἐὰν οὖν (where οὖν rather in sense belongs to the apodosis), Mat.5:23, Luk.4:7, Jhn.6:62, Rom.2:26, al.; ὡς οὖν, Jhn.4:1, al.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3767 appears in 519 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- therefore256
- then193
- so15
- and10
- now8
- wherefore8
- when6
- but5
- forasmuch2
- see2
- be1
- that1
First verses
- Matthew 1:17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
- Matthew 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
- Matthew 3:10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Matthew 5:19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
- Matthew 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- Matthew 6:2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
- Matthew 6:8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
- Matthew 6:9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
- Matthew 6:22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
- Matthew 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
- Matthew 6:31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
- Matthew 6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
- Matthew 7:11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- Matthew 7:12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 7:24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
- Matthew 9:38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
- Matthew 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Matthew 10:26Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
- Matthew 10:31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
οὖν,
Ionic dialect and Doric dialect ὦν (the latter in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.82, +others, but οὖν in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below), 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 18.29,37, 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 4.18, +others))], adverb certainly, in fact, confirming something, frequently in contrast with something which is not confirmed, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only in combination with γε (see. γοῦν), γάρ, οὔτε or μήτε, ὡς, ἐπεί, μέν, etc.:
1 really, φημὶ γὰρ οὖν κατανεῦσαι.. Κρονίωνα for I declare that Zeus did really promise.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.350, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 309b)]; τόφρα γὰρ οὖν ἑπόμεσθα.., ὄφρ᾽ for we followed them up to the very point, where.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.754, compare 15.232, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.123; εἰ δ᾽ οὖν τις ἀκτὶς ἡλίου νιν ἱστορεῖ.. ζῶντα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 676, compare 1042)]; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ᾽ ὦν but they really were spoken, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.80, compare 4.5, 6.82)]; Θηβαῖοι μὲν ταῦτα λέγουσι.., Πλαταιῆς δ᾽ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦσι.., ἐκ δ᾽ οὖν τῆς γῆς ἀνεχώρησαν at all events they did return, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5, compare 1.63, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315e; σωτηρίαν λεπτὴν μὲν.., μόνην δ᾽ οὖν [prev. author] “Lg.” 699b)]; so δ᾽ οὖν after a parenthesis; εἰ δή τις ὑμῶν οὕτως ἔχει,—οὐκ ἀξιῶ μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε,—εἰ δ᾽ οὖν but if he is so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ap.” 34d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.76, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3)]; so ἀλλ᾽ οὖν.. γε but at all events, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 84, “Ph.” 1305)]; ἔμπης οὖν ἐπιμεῖναι ἐς αὔριον to stay nevertheless at least till to-morrow, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.351)]; οὖν concessive, I grant you, τάχ᾽ οὖν τις ἄκων ἔσχε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 305: in apodosi after εἰ or ἐάν, εἰ καὶ σμικρά, ἀλλ᾽ ὦν ἴση γε ἡ χάρις.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.140, compare 9.48, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 498, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 91b, etc.: after ἐπεί and ὡς, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν τὸ πρῶτον ἀνέκραγον but now that I have (emphatic) once spoken up, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.467, compare 17.226, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.333)]; Τληπόλεμος δ᾽, ἐπεὶ οὖν τράφ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ εὐπήκτῳ, αὐτίκα.. κατέκτα when once, i.e. as soon as, he had grown up, [Refs (2.661, compare 15.363, 16.394, +others)]; νεβροί, αἵ τ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἔκαμον.. ἑστᾶσ᾽ which, as soon as they are tired, stand still, [Refs (4.244)]; to indicate that something foreshadowed has actually occurred, ἀγορήνδε καλέσσατο λαὸν Ἀχιλλεύς.., οἱ δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἤγερθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.57, compare 3.340, +others: sometimes οὖν after ἐπεί or ὡς has either no force or approaches signification 11 or 111, οἱ δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν παύσαντο πόνου 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.478, compare 19.213, 251, +others)]; τὸν δ᾽ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.21, +others)]; οὔτ᾽ οὖν.., οὔτε.. or οὔτε.., οὔτ᾽ οὖν.. both = neither.. nor, but preferred according as the first or second clause is to be marked by emphasis,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare 17.20, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.200, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26, with 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.198s q., 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 90, 271, etc.)]; so εἰ.., εἴτ᾽ οὖν.. if.., or if.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 140)]; εἴτ᾽ οὖν, εἴτε μὴ γενήσεται whether it shall be so, or no, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 149, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 491, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 560)]; ξεῖνος αἴτ᾽ ὦν ἀστός, i.e. αἴτε ξ. αἴτ᾽ ὦν ἀ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.78; and doubled, εἴτ᾽ οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτ᾽ οὖν ψεῦδος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 34e, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 683: so also in parenth. Relat. clauses, ἢ σῖγ᾽, ἀτίμως, ὥσπερ οὖν ἀπώλετο πατήρ)] even as, just as, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 96, compare 888, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1307 (variant))]; εἰ δ᾽ ἔστιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔστι, θεός if he is, as he in fact is, a god, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242e; οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι [prev. author] “Ap.” 21d: for γὰρ οὖν, see at {γάρ} 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.5)]; for μὲν οὖν, see at {μέν} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.2.)]
2 added to indefinite Prons. and adverbs, like Latin cunque, ὅστις whoever, ὁστισοῦν whosoever; ὅπως how, ὁπωσοῦν howsoever; ἄλλος ὁστισοῦν another, be he who he may; so ὁποιοσοῦν, ὁποιοστισοῦν, ὁποσοσοῦν, ὁπωσδηποτοῦν, ὁπητιοῦν, ὁποθενοῦν, etc., (see entry).
II to continue a narrative, so, then, καὶ τὰ μὲν οὖν.. θῆκαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.122)]; ὅτ᾽ οὖν since, then,.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 170, “El.” 38, 1318)]; ζεῖ οὖν ἐν τούτῳ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 251c, compare “Prt.” 322b; εὐθὺς οὖν ὁ Κῦρος εἶπεν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.22: in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and _Attic dialect_, μὲν οὖν (which see))] is very common in this sense; so δ᾽ οὖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 34, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 114)]; οὖν is also used alone merely to resume after a parenthesis or long protasis, well, as I was saying, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, χρήσαντος τοῦ θεοῦ.., ὑμεας γὰρ πυνθάνομαι προεστάναι..,—ὑμέας ὦν.. προσκαλέομαι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.69, compare 4.75, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 29d, “Smp.” 201d, etc.: 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus so uses ὦν after a short protasis, 1.144, etc.)]
II.2 ὦν is frequently inserted by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (sometimes without any discernible meaning) between the _preposition_ and its Verb (but only, it seems, in narrative with the _aorist_, which is always the _aorist_ of habitual action except in 2.172), ἐπεὰν δὲ ταῦτα ποιήσωσι, ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδωκαν [prev. work] 87; καὶ ἔπειτα ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδωκαν [prev. work] 88: after a)]participle, οἱ δὲ φέροντες ἐς τὴν ἀγορήν, ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδοντο[Refs ([prev. work] 39; κατευξάμενοι, κοιλίην μὲν κείνην πᾶσαν ἐξ ὦν εἶλον [prev. work] 40; ἤν τις ψαύσῃ.., αὐτοῖσι τοῖσι ἱματίοισι ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔβαψε ἑωυτόν [prev. work] 47; τοῦτον κατ᾽ ὦν κόψας [prev. work] 172)]; so in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus, δι᾽ οὖν ἐφθάρησαν “Morb.” 1.14 (variant), +others; also ἐπ᾽ ὦν ἐπίομες οἶνον 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 124.3)]: this tmesis is rare in Attic dialect, ὥστε γε καὐτόν σε κατ᾽ οὖν ἔβαλεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1047)]; but occurs in later writers, Dorieus cited in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 3 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, “Anthologia Graeca” 12.226 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus).)]
III in inferences, then, therefore, not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, rare in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus, and usually in questions (see. below))]; in a statement, [Refs (“Eu.” 219)]; very common from [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] downwards; so καὶ σὺ οὖν you too therefore, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.20; καὶ γὰρ οὖν [prev. author] “An.” 1.9.8)]; compare οὐ γὰρ οὖν, τοιγαροῦν: strengthened, δὴ οὖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 191c, etc.; οὖν δή [prev. author] “R.” 340e)]: in questions, τίς οὖν ὁ λύσων σ᾽ ἐστίν ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 771, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1191, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 906, 909)], etc.; ἆρ᾽ οὖν δή ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 146a)]; τί οὖν δή ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 873 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 57a.)]
Ionic dialect and Doric dialect ὦν (the latter in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.82, +others, but οὖν in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below), 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 18.29,37, 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 4.18, +others))], adverb certainly, in fact, confirming something, frequently in contrast with something which is not confirmed, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] only in combination with γε (see. γοῦν), γάρ, οὔτε or μήτε, ὡς, ἐπεί, μέν, etc.:
1 really, φημὶ γὰρ οὖν κατανεῦσαι.. Κρονίωνα for I declare that Zeus did really promise.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.350, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 309b)]; τόφρα γὰρ οὖν ἑπόμεσθα.., ὄφρ᾽ for we followed them up to the very point, where.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.754, compare 15.232, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.123; εἰ δ᾽ οὖν τις ἀκτὶς ἡλίου νιν ἱστορεῖ.. ζῶντα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 676, compare 1042)]; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ᾽ ὦν but they really were spoken, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.80, compare 4.5, 6.82)]; Θηβαῖοι μὲν ταῦτα λέγουσι.., Πλαταιῆς δ᾽ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦσι.., ἐκ δ᾽ οὖν τῆς γῆς ἀνεχώρησαν at all events they did return, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5, compare 1.63, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315e; σωτηρίαν λεπτὴν μὲν.., μόνην δ᾽ οὖν [prev. author] “Lg.” 699b)]; so δ᾽ οὖν after a parenthesis; εἰ δή τις ὑμῶν οὕτως ἔχει,—οὐκ ἀξιῶ μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε,—εἰ δ᾽ οὖν but if he is so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ap.” 34d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.76, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3)]; so ἀλλ᾽ οὖν.. γε but at all events, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 84, “Ph.” 1305)]; ἔμπης οὖν ἐπιμεῖναι ἐς αὔριον to stay nevertheless at least till to-morrow, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.351)]; οὖν concessive, I grant you, τάχ᾽ οὖν τις ἄκων ἔσχε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 305: in apodosi after εἰ or ἐάν, εἰ καὶ σμικρά, ἀλλ᾽ ὦν ἴση γε ἡ χάρις.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.140, compare 9.48, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 498, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 91b, etc.: after ἐπεί and ὡς, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν τὸ πρῶτον ἀνέκραγον but now that I have (emphatic) once spoken up, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.467, compare 17.226, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.333)]; Τληπόλεμος δ᾽, ἐπεὶ οὖν τράφ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ εὐπήκτῳ, αὐτίκα.. κατέκτα when once, i.e. as soon as, he had grown up, [Refs (2.661, compare 15.363, 16.394, +others)]; νεβροί, αἵ τ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἔκαμον.. ἑστᾶσ᾽ which, as soon as they are tired, stand still, [Refs (4.244)]; to indicate that something foreshadowed has actually occurred, ἀγορήνδε καλέσσατο λαὸν Ἀχιλλεύς.., οἱ δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἤγερθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.57, compare 3.340, +others: sometimes οὖν after ἐπεί or ὡς has either no force or approaches signification 11 or 111, οἱ δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν παύσαντο πόνου 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.478, compare 19.213, 251, +others)]; τὸν δ᾽ ὡς οὖν ἐνόησε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.21, +others)]; οὔτ᾽ οὖν.., οὔτε.. or οὔτε.., οὔτ᾽ οὖν.. both = neither.. nor, but preferred according as the first or second clause is to be marked by emphasis,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare 17.20, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.200, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26, with 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.198s q., 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 90, 271, etc.)]; so εἰ.., εἴτ᾽ οὖν.. if.., or if.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 140)]; εἴτ᾽ οὖν, εἴτε μὴ γενήσεται whether it shall be so, or no, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 149, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 491, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 560)]; ξεῖνος αἴτ᾽ ὦν ἀστός, i.e. αἴτε ξ. αἴτ᾽ ὦν ἀ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.78; and doubled, εἴτ᾽ οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτ᾽ οὖν ψεῦδος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 34e, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 683: so also in parenth. Relat. clauses, ἢ σῖγ᾽, ἀτίμως, ὥσπερ οὖν ἀπώλετο πατήρ)] even as, just as, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 96, compare 888, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1307 (variant))]; εἰ δ᾽ ἔστιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔστι, θεός if he is, as he in fact is, a god, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242e; οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι [prev. author] “Ap.” 21d: for γὰρ οὖν, see at {γάρ} 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.5)]; for μὲν οὖν, see at {μέν} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.2.)]
2 added to indefinite Prons. and adverbs, like Latin cunque, ὅστις whoever, ὁστισοῦν whosoever; ὅπως how, ὁπωσοῦν howsoever; ἄλλος ὁστισοῦν another, be he who he may; so ὁποιοσοῦν, ὁποιοστισοῦν, ὁποσοσοῦν, ὁπωσδηποτοῦν, ὁπητιοῦν, ὁποθενοῦν, etc., (see entry).
II to continue a narrative, so, then, καὶ τὰ μὲν οὖν.. θῆκαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.122)]; ὅτ᾽ οὖν since, then,.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 170, “El.” 38, 1318)]; ζεῖ οὖν ἐν τούτῳ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 251c, compare “Prt.” 322b; εὐθὺς οὖν ὁ Κῦρος εἶπεν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.22: in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and _Attic dialect_, μὲν οὖν (which see))] is very common in this sense; so δ᾽ οὖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 34, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 114)]; οὖν is also used alone merely to resume after a parenthesis or long protasis, well, as I was saying, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, χρήσαντος τοῦ θεοῦ.., ὑμεας γὰρ πυνθάνομαι προεστάναι..,—ὑμέας ὦν.. προσκαλέομαι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.69, compare 4.75, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 29d, “Smp.” 201d, etc.: 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus so uses ὦν after a short protasis, 1.144, etc.)]
II.2 ὦν is frequently inserted by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (sometimes without any discernible meaning) between the _preposition_ and its Verb (but only, it seems, in narrative with the _aorist_, which is always the _aorist_ of habitual action except in 2.172), ἐπεὰν δὲ ταῦτα ποιήσωσι, ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδωκαν [prev. work] 87; καὶ ἔπειτα ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδωκαν [prev. work] 88: after a)]participle, οἱ δὲ φέροντες ἐς τὴν ἀγορήν, ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδοντο[Refs ([prev. work] 39; κατευξάμενοι, κοιλίην μὲν κείνην πᾶσαν ἐξ ὦν εἶλον [prev. work] 40; ἤν τις ψαύσῃ.., αὐτοῖσι τοῖσι ἱματίοισι ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔβαψε ἑωυτόν [prev. work] 47; τοῦτον κατ᾽ ὦν κόψας [prev. work] 172)]; so in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus, δι᾽ οὖν ἐφθάρησαν “Morb.” 1.14 (variant), +others; also ἐπ᾽ ὦν ἐπίομες οἶνον 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 124.3)]: this tmesis is rare in Attic dialect, ὥστε γε καὐτόν σε κατ᾽ οὖν ἔβαλεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1047)]; but occurs in later writers, Dorieus cited in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 3 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, “Anthologia Graeca” 12.226 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus).)]
III in inferences, then, therefore, not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, rare in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus, and usually in questions (see. below))]; in a statement, [Refs (“Eu.” 219)]; very common from [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] downwards; so καὶ σὺ οὖν you too therefore, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.20; καὶ γὰρ οὖν [prev. author] “An.” 1.9.8)]; compare οὐ γὰρ οὖν, τοιγαροῦν: strengthened, δὴ οὖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 191c, etc.; οὖν δή [prev. author] “R.” 340e)]: in questions, τίς οὖν ὁ λύσων σ᾽ ἐστίν ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 771, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1191, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 906, 909)], etc.; ἆρ᾽ οὖν δή ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 146a)]; τί οὖν δή ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 873 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 57a.)]