Bible word study

Tosoutos (Strong’s G5118): Meaning in the Bible

Tosoutos (τοσοῦτος) is the Greek word numbered G5118 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as apparently from G3588 and G3739) and G3778 (including its variations); so vast as this, i.e. such (in quantity, amount, number of space). In the King James Bible it is translated as large, so great (long, many, much), these many..

• Original wordτοσοῦτος
• Transliterationtosoûtos
• Pronunciationtos-oo'-tos
• Strong’s numberG5118
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from (so much;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tosoutos appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tosoutos (G5118) stands behind 21 English renderings in 19 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Hebrews (5), John (4), Matthew (3).

How the King James Bible renders Tosoutos, by count

• much7 of 21 (33 percent)
• many4 of 21 (19 percent)
• great3 of 21 (14 percent)
• so great2 of 21 (10 percent)
• large1 of 21 (5 percent)
• long1 of 21 (5 percent)

Three places to read Tosoutos

• Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
• John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
• Hebrews 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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 Tosoutos 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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