Bible word study

Hopoios (Strong’s G3697): Meaning in the Bible

Hopoios (ὁποῖος) is the Greek word numbered G3697 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as of what kind that, i.e. how (as) great (excellent) (specially, as an indefinite correlative to the definite antecedent G5108 of quality). In the King James Bible it is translated what manner (sort) of, such as whatsoever..

• Original wordὁποῖος
• Transliterationhopoîos
• Pronunciationhop-oy'-os
• Strong’s numberG3697
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G3739 and G4169;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Hopoios appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Hopoios (G3697) stands behind 5 English renderings in 5 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (1), 1 Corinthians (1), Galatians (1).

How the King James Bible renders Hopoios, by count

• as1 of 5 (20 percent)
• man1 of 5 (20 percent)
• of1 of 5 (20 percent)
• sort1 of 5 (20 percent)
• whatsoever1 of 5 (20 percent)

Three places to read Hopoios

• Acts 26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
• 1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Hopoios in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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