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/him/herself

αὑτοῦStrong’s G1438

ahutou

Appears in 303 verses of the New Testament

In short

Ahutou is the Greek word usually translated “himself”, “themselves” and “yourselves”. It appears in 303 verses of the New Testament.

“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
2 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “himself”, “themselves” and “yourselves”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • himself 92
  • themselves 52
  • yourselves 38
  • his own 22
  • their own 21
  • ourselves 19
  • itself 10
  • of himself 9

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 56
  • Matthew 31
  • John 26
  • Mark 25
  • Acts 21
  • Romans 21

25 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 303 verses, by book
Colossians 2
3:133:16
1 Thessalonians 6
2:72:82:112:124:45:13
2 Thessalonians 4
2:42:63:93:12
2 Timothy 3
2:132:214:3
Titus 1
2:14
2 Peter 1
2:1
2 John 1
1:8
Greek dictionary

αὑτοῦ ahutou · /him/herself

αὑτοῦ, -ῆς, -οῦ = ἑαυτοῦ (which see), Mat.6:34, Luk.12:17, al. (MM, see word) (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “own” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

OWN, adjective

[See Owe and Ought.]

  1. Belonging to; possessed; peculiar; usually expressing property with emphasis, or in express exclusion of others.
  2. own often follows a verb; as, the book is not my own that is, my own book.
  3. It is used as a substitute.“That they may dwell in a place of their own” 2 Samuel 7:10
  4. 'He came to his own and his own received him not, ' that is, his own nation or people; own being here used as a substitute, like many other adjectives.
All definitions and other forms of “own”

    OWN, verb transitive

    [from the adjective.]

    1. To have the legal or rightful title to; to have the exclusive right of possession and use.
    2. To have the legal right to, without the exclusive right to use; as, a man owns the land in front of his farm to the middle of the highway.
    3. To acknowledge to belong to; to avow or admit that the property belongs to.
    4. To avow; to confess, as a fault, crime or other act; that is, to acknowledge that one has done the act; as, to own the faults of youth; to own our guilt.
    5. In general, to acknowledge; to confess; to avow; to admit to be true; not to deny; as, to own our weakness and frailty.

    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.