Strong’s G5620 · Greek

ὥστε
hṓste

Definition

so too, i.e. thus therefore (in various relations of consecution, as follow)

Etymology

from G5613 (ὡς) and G5037 (τέ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • (insomuch) as
  • so that (then)
  • (insomuch) that
  • therefore
  • to
  • wherefore

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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