Word study

Thus

14 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “thus”. 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.

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

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • כֹּה kôhthus, heretranslated this way 16 times of its 534 uses · Strong’s H3541Adverb  ·  Translated: this is what 369, that this is what 74, Thus 16, and ever so 12

    Isaiah 43:14 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.

    Jeremiah 7:3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

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  • 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 →
  • אֱדַיִן ĕdayinthen, thereupontranslated this way 4 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H116Adverb  ·  Translated: then 18, so 11, Thus 4, when 3

    Ezra 4:24 Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

    Daniel 5:3 Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

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  • כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 3 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun  ·  Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
  • דָּוִד DâvidDavidtranslated this way 3 times of its 1,046 uses · Strong’s H1732Noun  ·  Translated: David 902, David's 67, made david 4, Thus David 3

    1 Samuel 17:50 Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

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  • נְאֻם neumutterancetranslated this way 3 times of its 376 uses · Strong’s H5002Noun  ·  Translated: declares 359, prophecy 6, oracle 3, Thus declares 3

    Isaiah 56:8 Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

    Ezekiel 13:6 They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

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  • עַל alheighttranslated this way 2 times of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition  ·  Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216

    Genesis 50:11 When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.

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  • יְהֹוָה YehôvâhYahwehtranslated this way 2 times of its 6,473 uses · Strong’s H3068Noun  ·  Translated: lord 6,171, LORD's 127, surely as the lord 39, god 10Full study and all 5,509 verses →
  • טָמֵא ṭâmêbe or become uncleantranslated this way 2 times of its 158 uses · Strong’s H2930Verb  ·  Translated: unclean 47, defiled 38, defile 23, pronounce him unclean 10

    Leviticus 18:20 You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

    Leviticus 18:23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

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  • עָזַב âzableave, forsake, loosetranslated this way 2 times of its 214 uses · Strong’s H5800Verb  ·  Translated: forsaken 47, forsake 36, leave 23, abandoned 22

    Judges 2:12 Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

    Judges 10:6 And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.

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  • אָרוֹן ârônchest, arktranslated this way 2 times of its 195 uses · Strong’s H727Noun  ·  Translated: ark 183, chest 6, Thus the ark 2, coffin 1

    2 Samuel 6:11 Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.

    1 Chronicles 13:14 Thus the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed his household and everything he owned.

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  • קוּם qûmarise, stand up, standtranslated this way 2 times of its 594 uses · Strong’s H6965Verb  ·  Translated: rise 68, got 61, set 44, Get 42Full study and all 570 verses →
  • יֵהוּא YêhûJehutranslated this way 2 times of its 58 uses · Strong’s H3058Noun  ·  Translated: Jehu 52, Thus Jehu 2, Jehu's 2, Next 1

    2 Kings 9:14 Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

    2 Kings 10:28 Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,

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  • מֶלֶךְ melekkingtranslated this way 2 times of its 2,416 uses · Strong’s H4428Noun  ·  Translated: king 1,810, kings 267, king's 134, royal 58Full study and all 1,901 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

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  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.
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  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.
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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.