Vocabulary Form
ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅτι
Definition

whoever, whichever, whatever

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ὁ - τιν
Frequency
144
GK
4015
Mnemonics

Who's this?

Mnemonics

Notes

This word is the combination of the relative and the indefinite pronouns (ὅς + τις). As such, both halves decline. See the Appendix for the full paradigm, page 350. If you are following Track Two, just memorize this word for now; its forms will be explained in chapter 10.

Because ὅστις is formed with the relative pronoun, it will only occur in a dependent clause; the ὅστις clause cannot contain the main subject and verb.

In Koine Greek, this relative indefinite pronoun was starting to shift so that it could also be used as the relative pronoun. In other words, its indefinite significance can be lost and ὅστις can be translated the same as ὅς if required by the context.

Biblical Concordance

John 9:18 The Jews did not believe the report about him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
John 21:25 Now there are many other things which Jesus did as well; if they were written down one after the other, I imagine that not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
Acts 3:23 And it will be that every soul who (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) does not obey that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 5:16 A great number of people from the towns around Jerusalem also came, bringing the sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and they (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) were healed, all of them.
Acts 7:53 You, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) received the law by decrees given by angels and did not keep it.”
Acts 8:15 who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) went down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,
Acts 9:35 And all who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) turned to the Lord.
Acts 10:41 not to all the people but to witnesses who had been previously chosen by God, to us, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts 10:47 “Surely no one is able to withhold water so that these people cannot be baptized who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) received the Holy Spirit just as we did,
Acts 11:20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) on coming to Antioch began to speak also to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11:28 And one of them stood up, named Agabus, and indicated by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (which (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) took place in the days of Claudius).
Acts 12:10 When they had passed the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) of its own accord opened for them, and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel left him.
Acts 13:31 and he was seen for many days by those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) are now his witnesses to the people.
Acts 13:43 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts followed Paul and Barnabas, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc), as they spoke with them, were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.
Acts 16:12 and from there to Philippi, which (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We remained in that city for several days.
Acts 16:16 Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl who had a spirit of divination, met us. She (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) brought great profit to her masters by fortune-telling.
Acts 16:17 She followed after Paul and us, crying out, saying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) proclaim to you the way of salvation.”
Acts 17:10 And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas off by night to Berea. When they (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) got there, they went to the synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:11 These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) received the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day to see if these things were so.
Acts 21:4 After locating the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.
Acts 23:14 These (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed Paul.
Acts 23:21 But you should not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in wait for him and have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. And now they are ready, awaiting your consent.”
Acts 23:33 When the horsemen (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and turned over Paul to him.
Acts 24:1 And after five days the high priest Ananias went down with some elders and a prosecuting attorney, one Tertullus; and they (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) laid before the governor their case against Paul.
Acts 28:18 They (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.