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New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
ὁ (BSG)
Theologian
Bill Mounce
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12 January 2022
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17 December 2025
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ὁ means “the.”
“Are you ὁ teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these things?” (John 3:10).
Mounce's Expository Dictionary:
Adjective: ὁ (ho), GK G3836 (S G3588, G5120]), 19,867x. The prepositive article corresponds somewhat to the english article “the,” but it can also function as the demonstrative (“this, that”) or personal pronoun (“he, she, it”) and also a correlative, ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other (Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24). It can aid it turning an adjective or participle into a substantive.
(The dictionary entry is abridged from “Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words” (https://billmounce.com/dictionary).