Word study

Ours

6 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “ours”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “ours” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • בֵּן bênsontranslated this way 4 times of its 4,587 uses · Strong’s H1121Noun  ·  Translated: son 1,843, sons 892, Israelites 422, descendants 358Full study and all 3,473 verses →
  • מַיִם mayimwater, juice, urinetranslated this way 1 time of its 533 uses · Strong’s H4325Noun  ·  Translated: water 298, waters 176, like water 15, flood 3

    Genesis 26:20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

    Full study and all 497 verses →
  • חָם châmhottranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H2525Adjective  ·  Translated: ours was warm 1, get hot 1

    Joshua 9:12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But look, it is now dry and moldy.

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  • מוֹדַעַת môdaathkindred, kinshiptranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H4130Noun  ·  Translated: relative of ours 1

    Ruth 3:2 Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

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  • פָּקַד pâqadattend to, visit, muster, appointtranslated this way 1 time of its 294 uses · Strong’s H6485Verb  ·  Translated: punish 41, numbered 26, appointed 15, counted 14

    1 Samuel 25:15 Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.

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  • פָּנִים pânîmface, beforetranslated this way 1 time of its 1,836 uses · Strong’s H6440Noun  ·  Translated: before 448, face 222, presence 147, before you 123Full study and all 1,671 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

  • ἐγώ egṓItranslated this way 5 times of its 2,450 uses · Strong’s G1473Personal / Possessive Pronoun  ·  Translated: me 622, my 472, i 392, us 267Full study and all 1,768 verses →
  • ἡμέτερος hēméterosour, our owntranslated this way 2 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s G2251Personal / Possessive Pronoun  ·  Translated: our 3, ours 2, our own 1, of our 1

    1 John 1:3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

    1 John 2:2 He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

    Full study and all 7 verses →
  • ἔχω échōI have, hold, possesstranslated this way 1 time of its 624 uses · Strong’s G2192Verb  ·  Translated: has 63, have 52, with 35, you have 29Full study and all 560 verses →
How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.