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Strong's G3704 · Greek

ὅπως

hopos · hop'-oce

from 3739 and 4459; what(-ever) how, i.e. in the manner that (as adverb or conjunction of coincidence, intentional or actual)


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ὅπως (G3704)

53 ὅπως . Relat. adv. of manner, as , how : c. indic., Lk 24:20 . Conj., c. subjc. (in cl. also c. opt., indic.: so in Mt 26:59 , LT, Tr.), in order that , to the end that , that ; final, denoting purpose or design (in which the original idea of modality has been merged): after pres., Mt 6:2 , al.; pf., Ac 9:17 , al.; impf., Ac 9:24 ; aor., Ac 9:2 , al.; plpf., Jo 11:57 ; fut., Mt 23:35 ; imperat., Mt 2:8 , al.; ὅ. μή (M, Pr. , 185), Mt 6:18 , Lk 16:26 , Ac 20:16 , I Co 1:29 ; ὅ. πληρωθῇ , Mt 2:23 8:17 13:35 ; ὅ. ἄν (Bl., § 65, 2; WM, § 42, 5), Lk 2:35 , Ac 3:19 15:17 , Ro 3:4 (cf. Ge 12:13 , Ps 59:7 , I Mac 10:32 , al.). After verbs of asking, exhorting, etc.: Mt 9:38 , Lk 7:3 , Ja 5:16 , al. (in late writers its place is often taken by the correl. πῶς , q.v.).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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