Strong’s G3739 · Greek
ὅς
hós
Definition
the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
Etymology
probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article G3588 (ὁ));
Where the KJV renders it
- one
- (an-
- the) other
- some
- that
- what
- which
- who(-m
- -se)
- 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
A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.