Definition

demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because

Etymology

neuter of G3748 (ὅστις) as conjunction;

Word family

• ὅστις hóstis

How the KJV renders it

• as concerning that
• as though
• because (that)
• for (that)
• how (that)
• (in) that
• though
• why

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.