Word Summary
ontōs: really, truly
Original Word: ὄντωςTransliteration: ontōs
Phonetic Spelling: (on'-toce)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: really, truly
Meaning: really, truly
Strong's Concordance
certainly, clean, indeed, verily.
Adverb of the oblique cases of on; really -- certainly, clean, indeed, of a truth, verily.
see GREEK on
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3689: ὄντωςὄντως (from
ὄν; on adverbs formed from participles cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 115 a. Anm. 3; Kühner, § 335 Anm. 2), adverb,
truly, in reality, in point of fact, as opposed to what is pretended, fictitious, false, conjectural:
Mark 11:32 (see
ἔχω, I. 1 f.);
Luke 23:47;
Luke 24:34;
John 8:36;
1 Corinthians 14:25;
Galatians 3:21 and
Rec. in
2 Peter 2:18;
ὁ,
ἡ,
τό ὄντως followed by a noun,
that which is truly etc., that which is indeed (
τά ὄντως ἀγατα ἤ καλά, P'lat. Phaedr., p. 260 a.;
τήν ὄντως καί ἀληθῶς φιλίαν,
Plato, Clit., p. 409 e.;
οἱ ὄντως βασιλεῖς,
Josephus, Antiquities 15, 3, 5): as
ἡ ὄντως (
Rec. αἰώνιος)
ζωή,
1 Timothy 6:19;
ἡ ὄντως χήρα, a widow that is a widow indeed, not improperly called a widow (as
παρθένος ἡ λεγομένη χήρα, i. e., a virgin that has taken a vow of celibacy, in
Ignatius ad Smyrn. 13 [ET] (cf.
Lightfoot, in the place cited); cf. Baur, Die sogen. Pastoralbriefe, p. 46ff),
1 Timothy 5:3, 5, 16. (
Euripides,
Aristophanes,
Xenophon,
Plato, and following; the
Sept. for
אֻמְנָם,
Numbers 22:37; for
אָכֵן,
Jeremiah 3:23; for
אַך,
Jeremiah 10:19.)