For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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αὐτός
Vocabulary form:
aujtovV, -hv, -ov
Definition:
he, she, it; him/her/itself; same
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
5,597
GK:
899
Root:
aujto
Cognates:
An autocrat (aujtokrathvV) is a ruling by oneself.
Mnemonic Singing:
Only trust Him,
only trust Him,
only trust Him now.
Verse:
“αὐτός will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” (Matt 3:11)
Notes:
We will see in chapter 12 that aujtovV can also mean "self" and "same," which is reflected in most English cognates and derivatives.
Biblical Concordance
| Matthew 12:18 | “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd), and he will proclaim justice to the nations. |
| Matthew 12:19 | He will not quarrel, nor will he cry out, nor will anyone hear his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) voice in the streets. |
| Matthew 12:21 | And in his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) name the nations will put their hope.” |
| Matthew 12:22 | Then a blind and mute demoniac was brought to him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), and he healed him (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd) so that the mute could both speak and see. |
| Matthew 12:25 | But he knew their (autōn | αὐτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) thoughts and said to them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd), “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to ruin, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. |
| Matthew 12:26 | So if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) kingdom stand? |
| Matthew 12:27 | And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they (autoi | αὐτοί | nom pl masc) will be your judges. |
| Matthew 12:29 | Or how can someone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) belongings, unless he first ties up the strong man? And then he will ransack his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) house. |
| Matthew 12:32 | And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, neither in this age nor in the age to come. |
| Matthew 12:33 | “Either make the tree good and its (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg neut3rd) fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg neut3rd) fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit. |
| Matthew 12:36 | But I say to you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every careless word they speak. |
| Matthew 12:38 | Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” |
| Matthew 12:39 | But he answered them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd), “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it (autē | αὐτῇ | dat sg fem3rd) except the sign of Jonah the prophet. |
| Matthew 12:41 | The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it (autēn | αὐτήν | acc sg fem3rd), for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and look, something greater than Jonah is here! |
| Matthew 12:42 | The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it (autēn | αὐτήν | acc sg fem3rd), because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look, something greater than Solomon is here! |
| Matthew 12:46 | While he (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) was still speaking to the people, his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) mother and his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd). |
| Matthew 12:47 | |
| Matthew 12:48 | But he answered, saying to the one who had told him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), “Who is my mother? And who are my brothers?” |
| Matthew 12:49 | And stretching out his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) hand toward his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) disciples, he said, “Look, here are my mother and my brothers! |
| Matthew 12:50 | For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he (autos | αὐτός | nom sg masc) is my brother and sister and mother.” |
| Matthew 13:2 | And great crowds gathered around him (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd) so that he (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd) got into a boat and sat down, and all the crowd stood on the beach. |
| Matthew 13:3 | And he told them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. |
| Matthew 13:4 | And as he (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd) sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them (auta | αὐτά | acc pl neut3rd). |
| Matthew 13:7 | Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it (auta | αὐτά | acc pl neut3rd). |
| Matthew 13:10 | And the disciples came to (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) and said, “Why do you speak to (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) in parables?” |
| Matthew 13:11 | He answered them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd), saying, “Because to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. |
| Matthew 13:12 | For to (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) the one (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. |
| Matthew 13:13 | This is why I speak to (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) in parables, because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear nor do they understand. |
| Matthew 13:14 | And in them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled that says: ‘You will surely hear but never understand, and you will surely see but never perceive. |
| Matthew 13:15 | For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and their (autōn | αὐτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ (autous | αὐτούς | acc pl masc3rd) |
| Matthew 13:19 | When anyone hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which was sown in his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) heart. This is what was sown along the path. |
| Matthew 13:20 | As for the one who was sown on rocky places, this is the one who hears the message and immediately receives it (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd) with joy; |
| Matthew 13:24 | Jesus put another parable before them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd), saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man sowing good seed in his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) field. |
| Matthew 13:25 | But while everyone was sleeping, his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. |
| Matthew 13:27 | And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Why then does it have weeds?’ |
| Matthew 13:28 | And he said to them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd), ‘An enemy has done this!’ And the servants said to him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), ‘So do you want us to go and gather them?’ (auta | αὐτά | acc pl neut3rd) |
| Matthew 13:29 | But he replied, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you uproot the wheat along with them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl neut3rd). |
| Matthew 13:30 | Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the harvesters, “First gather the weeds and bind them (auta | αὐτά | acc pl neut3rd) into bundles to be burned, then gather the wheat into my barn.”’” |
| Matthew 13:31 | He gave them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) another parable, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) field. |
| Matthew 13:32 | It is the smallest of all the seeds; but when it is grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and nest in its (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg neut3rd) branches.” |
| Matthew 13:33 | He spoke another parable to them: (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and put into three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” |
| Matthew 13:34 | All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he told them (autois | αὐτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) nothing; |
| Matthew 13:36 | Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) disciples came to him (autō | αὐτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” |
| Matthew 13:39 | and the enemy who sowed them (auta | αὐτά | acc pl neut3rd) is the devil; and the harvest is the end of the age; and the harvesters are the angels. |
| Matthew 13:41 | The Son of Man will send his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) angels, and they will gather out of his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) kingdom everything that causes sin and those who break his laws. |
| Matthew 13:42 | And they will throw them (autous | αὐτούς | acc pl masc3rd) into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Matthew 13:43 | Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their (autōn | αὐτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) Father. He who has ears, let him hear! |
| Matthew 13:44 | “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field that a man found and covered up. Then in his (autou | αὐτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. |
| Matthew 13:46 | and when he found one pearl of great value, he went away and sold all that he had and bought it (auton | αὐτόν | acc sg masc3rd). |
| Matthew 13:50 | and cast them (autous | αὐτούς | acc pl masc3rd) into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
Mnemonics
autos mnemonic
|Ow, Taws!| Mom, |he| hit |himself| with the |same| brick again!