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GreekG0846Pronoun

αὐτός

autos

3,811Occurrences
G0846Strong's #
PronounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons

from the particle (perhaps akin to the base of G109 (ἀήρ) through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
determinative pron., in late Gk. much more frequently than in cl. 1. Emphatic (so always in nom. exc. when preceded by the art., see infr., iii); (1) self (ipse), expressing opposition, distinction, exclusion, etc., αὐ. ἐκχυθήσεται; αὐ. ἐγινώσκεν; αὐ.ὑμεῖς; καὶ αὐ. ἐγώ; αὐ. Ἰησοῦς; αὐ. καὶ οἱ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ; ὑμεῖς αὐ.; esp. (as freq in cl.) αὐ. ὁ, in late Gk., sometimes weakened, ἐν αὐτῇ ὥρᾳ, in that hour; (2) emphatic, he, she, it, pointing to some one as master, αὐ., καὶ αὐ. = οὗτος, ὁ *δε *(BL, §48, 1), 2. In oblique cases, for the simple pron. of 3rd of person(s), he, she, it, with ptcp. in genitive absol., (for irreg. constructions
V
Bl., §74, 5); pleonastically after the relative, in constr. ad sensum, without proper subject expressly indicated, genitive *αὐτοῦ *= ἐκείνου.
3.ὁ, ἡ, τὸ αὐ., the same

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Pronoun

Morphology Code

G:P

Full Description

Greek Pronoun

Occurrences

αὐτός appears 3,811 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
712
Matthew
635
John
537
Acts
520
Mark
465
Revelation
244
Romans
113
Hebrews
99

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 1:2BSB

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Acts 7:38BSB

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

John 7:29BSB

but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

Luke 9:14BSB

(There were about five thousand men.)He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

Mark 11:33BSB

So they answered, “We do not know.”And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.