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

James 4:14 You (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are but a mist that appears for a brief moment and then disappears.
1 Peter 2:11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from desires of the flesh, which (haitines | αἵτινες | nom pl fem) wage war against your soul,
2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
1 John 1:2 this life was revealed, and we have seen it and are bearing witness and proclaiming to you the eternal life that (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) existed with the Father and was revealed to us —
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) pierced him; and all the tribes of earth will wail on account of him. So shall it be! Amen.
Revelation 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) was speaking to me, and when I had turned I saw seven golden lampstands,
Revelation 2:24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not follow this teaching (who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) have not learned ‘the deep things of Satan,’ as they call them), to you I say, I lay on you no other burden,
Revelation 9:4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Revelation 11:8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) symbolically is called Sodom, or Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Revelation 12:13 So when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) had given birth to the male child.
Revelation 17:12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) as yet have not received royal power, but will receive ruling authority as kings for one hour, along with the beast.
Revelation 19:2 because true and just are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute who (hētis | ἥτις | nom sg fem) corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants shed by her hand.”
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and seated on them were those who had been given the authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God. These (hoitines | οἵτινες | nom pl masc) had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.