Whatever
δήποτεStrong’s G1221dēpote
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Dēpote is the Greek word usually translated “whatever”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”
Meaning
Usually translated “whatever”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- whatever 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
δήποτε dēpote · whatever
δή-ποτε indef. adv. (also written δή ποτε), with generalizing force; 1. absol., sometime. 2. With adv. or relat., -soever: ᾦ δ., Jhn.5:4 (L, οἱῳδηποτοῦν).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whatever” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHATEVER, pronoun
[what and ever.]
- Being this or that; being of one nature or another; being one thing or another; any thing that may be. whatever is read, let it be read with attention. whatever measure may be adopted, let it be with due caution. whatever you do, let it be done with prudence.
- All that; the whole that; all particulars that.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.