interrogative or indefinite pronoun
hopoios
Strong’sG3697
of what kind or manner
stem hopoi-5 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὁποῖος, -οία, -οῖον,
[in LXX: Ca 5:10, II Mac 11:37*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3697 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhop-oy'-os
of what kind that, i.e. how (as) great (excellent) (specially, as an indefinite correlative to the definite antecedent G5108 of quality)
King Jameswhat manner (sort) of, such as whatsoever.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect ὁπποῖος, η, ον, Refs 8th c.BC+; Ionic dialect ὁκοῖος, η, ον, Refs 7th c.BC+; Cretan dialect ὀτεῖος (which see): correlated to ποῖος: replaced by οἷος in Attic dialect Inscrr. after Refs 4th c.BC+
1 as Relat., of what sort or quality, ὁπποῖόν κ᾽ εἴπῃσθα ἔπος, τοῖόν κ᾽ ἐπακούσαις as [is] the word thou hast spoken, such shalt thou hear again, Refs 8th c.BC+; τοίῳ ὁποῖος ἔοι such as he might be, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 in indirect questions, Refs 8th c.BC+: in direct questions only as Refs 5th c.BC+ in the same clause, οὐ γὰρ αἰσθάνομαί σου ὁποῖον νόμιμον ἢ ποῖον δίκαιον λέγεις Refs 5th c.BC+
II with indefinite words added, ὁποῖός τις Refs 8th c.BC+ of what sort, for ὁποῖά τινα, Refs 8th c.BC+of what kind soever, Refs; ὁποῖος δή, δήποτε, δηποτοῦν, and οὖν δή, as ὁποία δὴ φλέψ Refs 5th c.BC+; πόλιν.. οὐδ᾽ ὁποίας ἥττω inferior to none, Refs 4th c.BC+ (c); μηδὲ καθ᾽ ὁποῖον τρόπον Refs 2nd c.BC+; μηδ᾽ ὁτίη or μηδοτίη, see at {μηδοτίη}.
III neuter plural used as adverb, like as, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV adverb ὁποίως, qualiter, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hopoios2×ὁποῖος | hopoias | hopoiem1×ὁποῖόν | hopoiois1×ὁποῖοί | hopoiais | hopoieim |
| object accusative | hopoion | hopoian1×ὁποίαν | hopoioin | hopoiain | ||
| direct address vocative | hopoior | hopoiar | hopoioir | hopoiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hopoiou | hopoiau | hopoieu | hopoioiu | hopoiaiu | hopoieiu |
| to, for dative | hopoio | hopoia | hopoie | hopoioi | hopoiai | hopoiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hopoi is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
hopoios“what”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 26:29… toin akouarōntoin mu sēmeron genera toioutoin hopoios kai mis amō parektos toiu desmoiu …… hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”
James 1:24… heauton kai aperchatē kai eutheōs epilatheta hopoios ate.… himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
hopoian“what kind of”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Thessalonians 1:9autois gar peri nu apangelalō hopoian eisodan echana pros vin, kai pōs …For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how …
hopoiem“quality”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Corinthians 3:13… pure apokaluptotō, kai hekastou tem ergem hopoiem atō tem purem autem dokimazati.… and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
hopoiois“what”subjectnominative plural1×
Galatians 2:6“what”apo de toiu dokarōntoiu arō tinem hopoiois pote ale oudenem mi diaferatō; prosōpem …But as for the highly esteemed— whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does …