Strong’s G3704 · Greek

ὅπως
hópōs

Definition

what(-ever) how, i.e. in the manner that (as adverb or conjunction of coincidence, intentional or actual)

Etymology

from G3739 (ὅς) and G4459 (πῶς);

Where the KJV renders it

  • because
  • how
  • (so) that
  • to
  • when

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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