conjunction
hopou
Strong’sG3699
where, whither
stem hopou-81 times in the New Testamentin 12 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
ὅπου is a relative and indefinite adverb meaning "where", used to point to the place in which something is located or happens 1234. It commonly introduces relative clauses of place ("the place where...") and can also follow expressions like "there, where" 1. With verbs of motion it can instead mean "whither", i.e. the place to which someone goes 1234.
Beyond strict location, the word can also be used without a literal spatial sense, marking a time or condition ("in a case where," roughly "since" or "seeing that") 13, or introducing a reason, equivalent to English "whereas" 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
ὅπου,
adv.G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3699 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect ὅκου, Relat., indirect interrogative, and indefinite adverb of Place, correlated to ποῦ:
I as a Relat., sometimes with genitive loci, τῆς πόλεως ὅπου κάλλιστον στρατοπεδεύσασθαι Refs 5th c.BC+in some places, Refs 4th c.BC+ adjective, μέλη, ὅπου (i. e. ἐν οἷς)Refs 5th c.BC+: with other Particles, ὅκου δή somewhere or other, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅπου ἄν wherever, with subjunctive, Refs; in Trag. the ἄν may be omitted, as ὅπου δ᾽ Ἀπόλλων σκαιὸς ᾖ, τίνες σοφο; Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ τῶν λεγομένων Refs 5th c.BC+anywheresoever, Refs; ὅπουπερ with optative, wherever, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁπουδάν, ={ὅπου δὲ ἄν}, anywhere, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὁπουδήποτε, = ubicumque, Dosith.p.410 K.; ὁπουδηποτοῦν anywheresoever, Refs 1st c.AD+
I.2 in indirect questions, ὄφρα πύθηαι πατρός, ὅπου κύθε γαῖα Refs 8th c.BC+: with Verbs of motion in pregnant sense, ὅκου ἐτράπετο, οὐκέτι εἶχον εἰπεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+ mostly from codices; in repeating a question, ἡ Λακεδαίμων ποῦ 'στι; Answ. ὅπου 'στί; (do you ask) where it is? Refs 5th c.BC+
II the strict local sense occasionally passes into,
II.1 a sense involving Time or Occasion, ὅ. τιν᾽ ἴδῃ Refs 6th c.BC+; οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὅ. there is no case in which, i.e. in no case. Refs 5th c.BC+; so ἔστιν ὅ.; as a question, Refs
II.2 of Cause, whereas, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅκου γε, Latin quandoquidem or quippe, Refs 5th c.BC+
B later as a demonstrative adverb, only in the phrase ὅ. μέν.., ὅ. δέ.. here.., there.., Refs 1st c.AD+
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
81 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 6:19… thēsaurizavōr vi thēsauroin epi tau gēau, hopou sētos kai brōsias afanizatō, kai hopou …… up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where …
Matthew 6:19… hopou sētos kai brōsias afanizatō, kai hopou kleptois diorussalō kai kleptalō;… where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew 6:20thēsaurizavōr de vi thēsauroin en ourano, hopou oute sētos oute brōsias afanizatō, kai …… up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy …
Matthew 6:20… oute sētos oute brōsias afanizatō, kai hopou kleptois ouk diorussalō oude kleptalō;… and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and …
Matthew 13:5alloseim de piptata epi teim petrōdeeim hopou ouk echate gēan pollan, kai eutheōs …Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil …
Matthew 26:57… Iēsun apagala pros Kaiafon ton archierevon, hopou tois grammatevois kai tois presbuterois sunagila.… house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.
Matthew 28:6… kathōs legata; deute horavar ton topon hopou keiote;… He said! Come, see the place where He lay.
Mark 2:4“where”… dia ton ochlon apostegazala tan stegan hopou ate, kai exorussarantois chalalō ton krabatton …… Jesus through the crowd, they uncovered the roof above Him, made an opening, and lowered the paralytic on his mat.
Mark 2:4“on which”… ate, kai exorussarantois chalalō ton krabatton hopou tos paralutikos katakeiote.… an opening, and lowered the paralytic on his mat.
Mark 4:5kai allosem piptata epi tem petrōdeem hopou ouk echate gēan pollan, kai euthuos …Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil …
Mark 4:15… de alō tois para tan hodan hopou sperotō tos logos, kai hotan akoualeia …… like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon …
Mark 9:48hopou tos skōlēkos autoiu ouk teleutatō kai …where ‘their worm never dies, and the …
Mark 14:14… legatō; Pou atō tem katalumem mu hopou tem pascha meta toiu mathētoiu mu …… asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with …
Mark 16:6… ouk atō hōde; ide tos topos hopou tithala auton;… is not here! See the place where they put Him.
Luke 12:33… palaiorōnteim, thēsauron anekleipton en toi ouranoi, hopou kleptos ouk engizatō oude sētos diaftheratō;… out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth …
Luke 22:11… tos didaskalos; Pou atō tem katalumem hopou tem pascha meta toiu mathētoiu mu …… asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with …
John 1:28… en Bēthania geneta peran tou Iordanou, hopou ate tos Iōannos baptizarōntos.… happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
John 4:20… hoti en Hierosolumei atō tos topos hopou proskunarō datō.… you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
John 4:46… palin eis tan Kana tau Galilaiau, hopou poiata tem hudem oinon. kai ate …… He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into …
John 6:23… ploiarieim ek Tiberiadau engus tou topou hopou esthiala ton arton eucharistarantou tou kuriou.… from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread …
John 7:42… David, kai apo Bēthleem tau kōmau hopou ate David, erchotō tos christos?… David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
John 10:40… peran tou Iordanou eis ton topon hopou ate Iōannos tem prōtem baptizarōntos, kai …… across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and …
John 11:30… alla ate ēti en to topo hopou hupantata auto tas Marthas.… but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
John 12:1“where”… hēmeraiu teu pascha erchata eis Bēthanian, hopou ate Lazaros, hon egerata ek nekroiu …Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
John 18:1… autou peran tou cheimarrou tou Kedrōn hopou ate kēpos, eis hon eiserchata autos …… His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.
John 18:20… en sunagōga kai en te hiere, hopou pantois tois Ioudaiois sunercholō, kai en …… the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I …
John 19:18hopou auton staurala, kai meta autou allosoin …There they crucified Him, and with Him …
John 19:20… engus ate tos topos tau polau hopou staurita tos Iēsus; kai ate graforēntem …… read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the …
John 19:41ate de en to topo hopou staurita kēpos, kai en to kēpo …… was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the …
John 20:12… kefala kai henon pros toi podoi, hopou keiote tem sōmem tou Iēsu.… saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain …
Acts 17:1… kai tan Apollōnian erchala eis Thessalonikan, hopou ate sunagōgas toiu Ioudaioiu.… and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Hebrews 6:20hopou prodromos huper nu eiserchata Iēsus, kata …where Jesus our forerunner has entered on …
Revelation 2:13Oidamē pou katoikasō, hopou tos thronos tou Satanou, kai kratasō …I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits, yet …
Revelation 2:13… pistos mu, hos apoktenita para vi, hopou tos Satanos katoikatō.… Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.
Revelation 11:8… hotinas kalotō pneumatikōs Sodomeim kai Aiguptas, hopou kai tos kurios autoiu staurita.… city — figuratively called Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord was also crucified.
Revelation 12:6… tas gunaikas fugata eis tan erēman, hopou echatō ekei topon hetoimazorēnton apo tou …… the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for …
Revelation 12:14… tan erēman eis ton topon autau, hopou trefotō ekei kairon kai kairoin kai …… to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time …
Revelation 17:9“which”… tais hepta kefalais hepta oreim alō, hopou tas gunaikas kathotō epi auteiu. kai …… wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Revelation 20:10“where”… tan limnan teu pureu kai theieu, hopou kai tem thērem kai tos pseudoprofētos, …… thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already …
Matthew 6:21hopou gar atō tos thēsauros su, ekei …For where your treasure is, there your heart …
Matthew 8:19… grammatevos legata auto; Didaskalor, akolouthami si hopou ean aperchoseiō.… said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
Matthew 24:28hopou ean ateiō tem ptōmem, ekei sunagili …Wherever there is a carcass, there the …
Matthew 25:24… sin hoti sklēros asō anthrōpos, therizarōntos hopou ouk sperasa kai sunagarōntos hothen ouk …… you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering …
Matthew 25:26… doulor kai oknēror, oidaselē hoti therizamō hopou ouk sperama kai sunagamō hothen ouk …… master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather …
Matthew 26:13amēn legamō vi, hopou ean kērussiteia tem euangeliem houtem en …Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached in all …
Mark 5:40“where”… kai toin meta autou, kai eisporeuotō hopou ate tem paidiem;… and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.
Mark 6:55… toi krabattoi toin kakōs echarōntoin periferarō hopou akouale hoti atō.… carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was.
Mark 6:56kai hopou an eisporeuote eis kōmain ē eis …And wherever He went — villages and towns and …
Mark 9:18“*wherever”kai hopou ean auton katalabateia rēgatō auton, kai …Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the …
Mark 13:14… horaveia tem bdelugmem tau erēmōsiau stēarēnton hopou ouk datō, tos anagnōskarōntos noatōr, tote …… see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the …
Mark 14:9amēn de legamō vi, hopou ean kērussiteia tem euangeliem eis holon …And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all …
Mark 14:14“* wherever”kai hopou ean eiserchateia legavar to oikodespoto hoti …and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The …
Luke 9:57… legata tinos pros auton; Akolouthami si hopou ean aperchoseiō.… to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.”
Luke 12:34hopou gar atō tos thēsauros vu, ekei …For where your treasure is, there your heart …
John 3:8tem pneumem hopou thelatō pnatō, kai tan fōnan auteu …The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound …
John 6:62… theōraveiō ton huion tou anthrōpou anabainarōnton hopou ate tem proterem?… the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
John 7:34zētavi min kai ouk heuriskavi, kai hopou amō mis vis ouk dunovō erchara.… you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
John 7:36… Zētavi min kai ouk heuriskavi, kai hopou amō mis vis ouk dunovō erchara?… you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’ ?”
John 8:21… kai en ta hamarta vu apothnēskevi; hopou mis hupagamō vis ouk dunovō erchara.… you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
John 11:32“where”tas oun Mariam hōs erchata hopou ate Iēsus horarantas auton piptata autou …When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and …
John 12:26… mi tinos diakonateiō mi akolouthatōr, kai hopou amō mis ekei kai tos diakonos …… Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be …
John 14:3… kai paralabemi vin pros miauton, hina hopou amō mis kai vis aveiō.… so that you also may be where I am.
John 14:4kai hopou mis hupagamō oidavē tan hodan.… know the way to the place where I am going.”
John 17:24patror, hem dōasē mi, thelamō hina hopou amō mis kakeinois aleiō meta mu, …… given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see …
John 20:19“where”… hena sabbateiu, kai taiu thuraiu kleiorēntaiu hopou ale tois mathētois dia ton fobon …… was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus …
John 21:18“wherever”… ase neoteros, zōnase siauton kai peripatase hopou thelase; hotan de gēraskaseia, ekteinasi tain …… when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands …
John 21:18… kai allosos sin zōnati kai ferati hopou ouk thelasō.… will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”
Romans 15:20houtōs de filotimorōnton euangelizorō ouk hopou onomazita Christos, hina mē epi allotrion …… have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that …
1 Corinthians 3:3ēti gar sarkikois avō. hopou gar en vi zēlos kai eridas, …for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among …
Colossians 3:11“where”hopou ouk eniatō Hellēnos kai Ioudaios, peritomas …Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised …
Hebrews 9:16“where”hopou gar diathēkas, thanaton anankas ferorō tou …… of a will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one who …
Hebrews 10:18hopou de afesias houtaiu, ouketi prosforas peri …And where these have been forgiven, an offering …
James 3:4… sklēroiu elaunorōnteim, metagotō hupo elachisteu pēdalieu hopou tas hormas tou euthunarōntou boulotō;… steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.
James 3:16hopou gar zēlos kai eritheias, ekei akatastasias …For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there …
2 Peter 2:11“whereas”hopou angelois ischua kai dunamia megoterois arōntois …… not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to …
Revelation 14:4… alō; houtois tois akoloutharōntois te arnie hopou an hupagateiō; houtois agorazila apo toiu …… are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed …
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Mark 6:10“wherever”kai legate autoi; Hopou ean eiserchaveia eis oikian, ekei menavōr …And He told them, “When you enter a house, stay there until you …
Luke 17:37“where”… Pou, kurior? tos de legata autoi; Hopou tem sōmem, ekei kai tois aetois …“Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”
John 8:22… Ioudaiois; Mēti apoktenati heauton hoti legatō; Hopou mis hupagamō vis ouk dunovō erchara?… He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’ ?”
John 13:33… kai kathōs legama toi Ioudaioi hoti Hopou mis hupagamō vis ouk dunovō erchara, …… so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
John 13:36… Petros; Kurior, pou hupagasō? apokrinita Iēsus; Hopou hupagamō ouk dunosō mi nun akolouthara, …… going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow …