ὅπου (from
ποῦ and the relative
ὁ) (from
Homer down),
where;
1. adverb of place,
a. in which place, where;
α. in relative sentences with the indicative it is used to refer to a preceding noun of place; as,
ἐπί τῆς γῆς,
ὅπου etc.
Matthew 6:19; add,
Matthew 6:20;
Matthew 13:5;
Matthew 28:6;
Mark 6:55;
Mark 9:44,
46 (which verses
T WH omit;
Tr brackets), 48;
Luke 12:33;
John 1:28;
John 4:20,
46;
John 6:23;
John 7:42;
John 10:40;
John 11:30;
John 12:1;
John 18:1,
20;
John 19:18,
20,
41;
John 20:12;
Acts 17:1;
Revelation 11:8;
Revelation 20:10. it refers to
ἐκεῖ or
ἐκεῖσε to be mentally supplied in what precedes or follows:
Matthew 25:24,
26;
Mark 2:4;
Mark 4:15;
Mark 5:40;
Mark 13:14;
John 3:8;
John 6:62;
John 7:34;
John 11:32;
John 14:3;
John 17:24;
John 20:19;
Romans 15:20;
Hebrews 9:16;
Hebrews 10:18;
Revelation 2:13. it refers to
ἐκεῖ expressed in what follows:
Matthew 6:21;
Luke 12:34;
Luke 17:37;
John 12:26;
James 3:16. in imitation of the Hebrew
שָׁם אֲשֶׁר (
Genesis 13:3;
Ecclesiastes 9:10, etc.):
ὅπου ἐκεῖ,
Revelation 12:6 (
G T Tr WH), 14 (see
ἐκεῖ, a.);
ὅπου...
ἐπ' αὐτῶν,
Revelation 17:9.
ὅπου also refers to men, so that it is equivalent to
with (among) whom, in whose house:
Matthew 26:57; (add,
Revelation 2:13; cf.
Winers Grammar, § 54, 7 at the end);
in which state (viz. of the renewed man),
Colossians 3:11. it is loosely connected with the thought to which it refers, so that it is equivalent to
wherein (
A. V. whereas),
2 Peter 2:11 (in the same sense in indirect question,
Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 1).
ὅπου ἄν,
wherever — with imperfect indicative (see
ἄν, II. 1),
Mark 6:56 (
Tdf. ἐάν); with aorist subjunctive (Latin future perfect),
Mark 9:18 (where
L T Tr WH ὅπου ἐάν);
Mark 14:9 (here too
T WH ὅπου ἐάν); also
ὅπου ἐάν (see
ἐάν, II.),
Matthew 26:13;
Mark 6:10;
Mark 14:14a (in both of the last two passages,
L Tr ὅπου ἄν); with subjunctive present
Matthew 24:28.
β. in indirect questions (yet cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 57, 2 at the end), with subjunctive aorist:
Mark 14:14b;
Luke 22:11.
b. joined to verbs signifying motion into a place instead of
ὅποι,
into which place, whither (see
ἐκεῖ, b.): followed by the indicative,
John 8:21;
John 13:33,
36;
John 14:4;
John 21:18; (
James 3:4 T Tr WH (see below));
ὅπου ἄν,
where (whither) soever, with indicative present,
Revelation 14:4 L Tr WH (cf. below), cf.
Buttmann, § 139, 30; with subjunctive present,
Luke 9:57 R G T WH (others,
ὅπου ἐάν, see below);
James 3:4 (
R G L);
Revelation 14:4 R G T (see above);
ὅπου ἐάν, with subjunctive present,
Matthew 8:19, and
L Tr in
Luke 9:57.
2. It gets the force of a conditional particle
if (
in case that, in so far as (
A. V. whereas (cf.
2 Peter 2:11 above))):
1 Corinthians 3:3 (
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 43, 1 [ET], and often in Greek writings; cf. Grimm on 4 Macc. 2:14; Meyer on
1 Corinthians 3:3; (Müller on the Epistle of Barnabas 16, 63).
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