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ἐκεῖνοςStrong’s G1565

ekeinos

Appears in 245 verses of the New Testament

In short

Ekeinos is the Greek word usually translated “that”, “he” and “those”. It appears in 245 verses of the New Testament.

“When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”
2 Thessalonians 1:10 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “that”, “he” and “those”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • that 112
  • he 39
  • those 33
  • they 9
  • same 6
  • that one 5
  • of those 5
  • him 5

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

Where it's used most
  • John 72
  • Matthew 51
  • Luke 35
  • Mark 23
  • Acts 23
  • Hebrews 8

17 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 245 verses, by book
1 Corinthians 4
9:2510:1110:2815:11
2 Corinthians 4
7:88:98:1410:18
Ephesians 1
2:12
2 Thessalonians 1
1:10
Titus 1
3:7
James 2
1:74:15
2 Peter 1
1:16
Revelation 3
9:611:1316:14
Greek dictionary

ἐκεῖνος ekeinos · that

ἐκεῖνος, -η, -ο (ἐκεῖ), [in LXX chiefly for הַהוּא ,הוּא, and cogn. forms ;] demonstr. pron., that person or thing (ille), implying remoteness as compared with οὗτος (hic); 1. absol., emphatic he, she, it: opposite to οὗτος, Luk.18:14, Jas.4:15; ἡμεῖς, Heb.12:25; ὑμεῖς, Mrk.4:11; ἄλλοι, Jhn.9:9; ἐγώ, Jhn.3:30; to persons named, Mk 16:[10, 13, 20], Jhn.2:21; of one (absent) who is not named, contemptuously (Abbott, JG, §§2385, 2732), Jhn.7:11 9:28; with respect, of Christ, 1Jo.2:6 3:3, al.; referring to a preceding noun, Mrk.16:[10], Jhn.7:45; resumption of a participial subject, Jhn.1:33 9 …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

HE, pronoun

of the third person; nom. he; poss.his; obj. him. [Latin id, for hid; hic.]

  1. A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before.“Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” Genesis 3:16“Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve” Deuteronomy 6:13
  2. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. he is the man.
  3. he is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description.“HE that walketh with wise men, shall be wise” Proverbs 13:20
  4. he when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.“My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh” Genesis 6:3
All definitions
  1. Man; a male.
  2. he is sometimes prefixed to the names of animals to designate the male kind, as a he-goat, a he-bear.

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.