King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5599
Transliteration: ō
Phonetic Spelling: (o)
Part of Speech: Interjection
Short Definition: O, oh!
Meaning: O, oh!
ὦ, an interjection, prefixed to vocatives (on its use in the N. T. cf. Buttmann, 140 (122); (Winers Grammar, § 29, 3)), O; it is used a. in address: ὦ Θεόφιλε, Acts 1:1; add, Acts 18:14; Acts 27:21 (here Tdf. ὦ (ex errore); on the passages which follow cf. Buttmann, as above); Romans 2:1, 3; Romans 9:20; 1 Timothy 6:20; and, at the same time, reproof, James 2:20.
Word Summary
ō: O, oh!
Original Word: ὦTransliteration: ō
Phonetic Spelling: (o)
Part of Speech: Interjection
Short Definition: O, oh!
Meaning: O, oh!
Strong's Concordance
O. A primary interjection; as a sign of the vocative case, O; as a note of exclamation, oh -- O.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5599: ὦὦ, an interjection, prefixed to vocatives (on its use in the N. T. cf. Buttmann, 140 (122); (Winers Grammar, § 29, 3)), O; it is used a. in address: ὦ Θεόφιλε, Acts 1:1; add, Acts 18:14; Acts 27:21 (here Tdf. ὦ (ex errore); on the passages which follow cf. Buttmann, as above); Romans 2:1, 3; Romans 9:20; 1 Timothy 6:20; and, at the same time, reproof, James 2:20.
b. in exclamation: and that of admiration, Matthew 15:28; Romans 11:33 (here Rec.st Lachmann ὦ; cf. Chandler §§ 902 and especially 904); of reproof, Luke 24:25; Acts 13:10; Galatians 3:1; with the nominative (Winer's Grammar, § 29, 2), Matthew 17:17; Mark 9:19; Luke 9:41. ((From Homer down.))