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οὗτος

Vocabulary form: 
ou|toV, au{th, tou:to
Definition: 

sg: this; he, she, it;
pl: these; they

Erasmian: 
Modern: 
Frequency: 
1,387
GK: 
4047
Root: 
ouJto
Mnemonic Singing: 

This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears

Notes: 

There is much more to this word than we are presenting here. Its form changes considerably in its different genders. ou|toV is covered in detail in chapter 13. As an adjective it means "this" (singular) and "these" (plural), and as a noun it means "this one."

Mnemonics

Submitted by AWOL on Wed, 2018-09-05 10:19

WHO TOSSed THIS brick!? IT hurt THESE people!

Submitted by bentap on Wed, 2024-07-10 08:06

WHO TOSSed THIS to me?

Biblical Concordance

2 Peter 1:10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election. For by doing these things (tauta | ταῦτα | acc pl neut) you will never come to ruin.
2 Peter 1:12 Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of these things (toutōn | τούτων | gen pl neut), even though you know them and are established in the truth that you now have.
2 Peter 1:13 Indeed, I consider it the right thing to do, as long as I am in this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) body, to keep refreshing your memory,
2 Peter 1:15 And I will also do my best to see that you will always be able to recall these (toutōn | τούτων | gen pl neut) things (toutōn | τούτων | gen pl neut) after my decease.
2 Peter 1:17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when a voice borne to him by the Majestic Glory proclaimed: “This (houtos | οὗτος | nom sg masc) is my Son, my Beloved, on whom my favor rests.”
2 Peter 1:18 We ourselves heard this (tautēn | ταύτην | acc sg fem) voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
2 Peter 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture arises from the prophet’s own interpretation,
2 Peter 2:12 But these (houtoi | οὗτοι | nom pl masc) people, like irrational animals, born creatures of instinct to be captured and destroyed, are ignorant of those whom they slander, and in their destruction will themselves also be destroyed,
2 Peter 2:17 These people (houtoi | οὗτοι | nom pl masc) are wells without water, mists driven by a squall. For them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) he is enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them (toutois | τούτοις | dat pl neut) and overcome, the last state has become for them worse than the first.
2 Peter 3:1 This (tautēn | ταύτην | acc sg fem), dear friends, is now the second letter I have written to you (in both of them I have been trying to arouse your pure minds with a reminder)
2 Peter 3:3 Above all you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following their own lusts
2 Peter 3:5 For in maintaining this (touto | τοῦτο | nom sg neut), they overlook the fact that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.
2 Peter 3:8 But do not let this (touto | τοῦτο | nom sg neut) one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a single day.
2 Peter 3:11 Since all these things (toutōn | τούτων | gen pl neut) are thus to be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
2 Peter 3:14 So then, dear friends, since you await these things (tauta | ταῦτα | acc pl neut), strive to be found without spot or blemish, at peace in him.
2 Peter 3:16 as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters (toutōn | τούτων | gen pl neut), in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
1 John 1:4 These things (tauta | ταῦτα | acc pl neut) we are writing that our joy may be complete.
1 John 1:5 Now this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is the message that we have heard from him and are proclaiming to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him.
1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things (tauta | ταῦτα | acc pl neut) to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.
1 John 2:3 Now this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) is how we can be sure that we know God: if we keep his commandments.
1 John 2:4 The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg masc).
1 John 2:5 But whoever keeps his word, truly in that person (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg masc) is the love of God brought to fulfillment. This is how we can be sure that we are in him:
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one (houtos | οὗτος | nom sg masc) is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:25 And this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is the promise that he made to us — eternal life.
1 John 2:26 I have written these things (tauta | ταῦτα | acc pl neut) to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God — and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this (tautēn | ταύτην | acc sg fem) hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
1 John 3:8 The one who continues to sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this (touto | τοῦτο | acc sg neut) purpose — that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:10 By this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:11 For this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is the message that you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.
1 John 3:16 By this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) we have come to know love: that he laid down his life on our behalf. And we are obligated to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:19 And by this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) we will know that we are of the truth and will set our conscience at rest in his presence,
1 John 3:23 And this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.
1 John 3:24 And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) we know that he abides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.
1 John 4:2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
1 John 4:3 but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This (touto | τοῦτο | nom sg neut) is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world.
1 John 4:5 They are of the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:6 We are from God. The person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this (toutou | τούτου | gen sg neut) we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:9 By this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) the love of God is revealed to us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:10 In this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:13 By this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) we know that we abide in God and he in us: because he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:17 By this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut), love is fully realized among us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because just as he is, so also are we in this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg masc) world.
1 John 4:21 And the commandment we have from him is this: (tautēn | ταύτην | acc sg fem) the one who loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 5:2 By this (toutō | τούτῳ | dat sg neut) we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
1 John 5:3 For this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
1 John 5:4 because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. And this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is the victorious power that has conquered the world — our faith.
1 John 5:6 This (houtos | οὗτος | nom sg masc) is the one who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
1 John 5:9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this (hautē | αὕτη | nom sg fem) is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.

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