Strong’s G3588 · Greek

ho

Definition

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)

Etymology

the definite article;

Where the KJV renders it

  • the
  • this
  • that
  • one
  • he
  • she
  • it
  • etc

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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