adverb
hou
Strong’sG3757
where, whither, when
stem hou-25 times in the New Testamentin 9 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
Where or at which place — used to indicate the location in which something is or happens 1234. It can answer the question "where?" (of a place someone is or something happens), and can also refer to a state or condition rather than a physical location 1. It can also mean whither, "to which place," answering the question "where to?" 124.
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
οὗ
(prop. gen. of ὅς),
adv. of place,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3757 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoo
at which place, i.e. where
Fromgenitive case of G3739 as adverb;
King Jameswhere(-in), whither(-soever).
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
genitive of relative and possess. Prons. ὅς: as adverb where, see at {ὅς}, ἥ, ὅ A b. 1.
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.
25 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 2:9… proagate autoin, heōs ercharantos stēita epanō hou ate tem paidiem.… until it stood over the place where the Child was.
Matthew 28:16“which”… eis tan Galilaian eis tem orem hou tasseta autoi tos Iēsus,… disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had designated.
Luke 4:16Kai erchata eis Nazara, hou ate treforēntos, kai eiserchata kata tem …Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As …
Luke 4:17… anaptussarantos tem bibliem heuriskata ton topon hou ate graforēntem;… Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:
Luke 10:1“where”… autou eis pantan polan kai topon hou mellate autos erchorō.… ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.
Luke 23:53… kai tithata auton en mnēme laxeute hou ouk ate oudenos oupō keiorōntos.… a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
Luke 24:28Kai engizala eis tan kōman hou poreuole, kai autos prospoieta porrōteron poreuorō.As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to …
Acts 1:13… hote eiserchala, eis tem huperōem anabainala hou ale katamenarōntois, tos tē Petros kai …… they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John …
Acts 2:2… biaiau kai plērata holon ton oikon hou ale kathorōntois,… heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Acts 7:29… kai geneta paroikos en gēa Madiam, hou gennata huioin duo.… fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and …
Acts 12:12… tau mētērau Iōannou tou epikalorōntou Markou, hou ale hikanois sunathroizorēntois kai proseuchorōntois.… mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and …
Acts 16:13… exerchana exō tau pulau para potamon hou nomizane proseuchan arō, kai kathizarantois lalane …… the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a …
Acts 20:6… eis tan Trōadan achri hēmeraiu pente, hou diatribana hēmerain hepta.… later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.
Acts 20:8… de lampadais hikanais en te huperōe hou ane sunagorēntois;… many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
Acts 25:10… Epi teu bēmeu Kaisarou stēarēntos amō, hou min datō krinorō. Ioudaioin oudenem adikama, …… before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I …
Acts 28:14“where”hou heuriskarantois adelfoin parakalina para autoi epimenara …There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so …
Romans 9:26kai eti en to topo hou legita autoi; Ouk laos mu vis, …… happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You …
Colossians 3:1… sunegeriva to Christo, teim anō zētavōr, hou tos Christos atō en dexa tou …… Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right …
Hebrews 3:9hou peirazala tois patrois vu en dokimasia …where your fathers tested and tried Me …
Revelation 17:15… legatō mi; Teim hudeim heim horasa, hou tas pornas kathotō, laois kai ochlois …… to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples …
Matthew 18:20hou gar alō duo ē treis sunagorēntois …For where two or three gather together in …
Romans 4:15tos gar nomos organ katergazotō, hou de ouk atō nomos, oude parabasias.because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is …
Romans 5:20… de pareiserchata hina pleonazateia tem paraptōmem; hou de pleonazata tas hamartas, huperperisseuata tas …… that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the …
1 Corinthians 16:6… kai paracheimazami, hina vis min propempaveia hou ean poreuomeiō.… can help me on my journey, wherever I go.
2 Corinthians 3:17tos de kurios tem pneumem atō; hou de tem pneumem kuriou, eleutherias.… the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is …