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Strong's G5600 (o)

O means “might” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5600 — cephinah (“ship”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5600
Language Greek
Linked Usages 61
Books 18

Strong's G5600 Quick Answer

Strong's G5600 ὦ (o) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. o (o) (including the oblique forms, as well as es ace; e ay; etc) v. 1. may be, (might, can, could, would, should, must, etc.) be {also with G1487 and its comparative, as well as with other particles} It has 61 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include may, should, might, can, and would. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament.

Meaning
o (o) (including the oblique forms, as well as es ace; e ay; etc) v. 1. may be, (might, can, could, would, should, must, etc.) be {also with G1487 and its comparative, as well as with other particles}
Usage
61 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament
Usage Words
may, should, might, can, and would

Meaning and Definition

o (o) (including the oblique forms, as well as es ace; e ay; etc) v. 1. may be, (might, can, could, would, should, must, etc.) be {also with G1487 and its comparative, as well as with other particles} [subjunctive of G1510] KJV: + appear, are, (may, might, should) be, X have, is, + pass the flower of her age, should stand, were Root(s): G1510

Original Word
Transliteration
o
Derivation
Root: εἰμί R1: 1510
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5600. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

may be

Usage: εἰμί, with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be. __I. As substantive verb. __1. Of persons and things, to be, exist: Act.17:28, Jhn.1:1, 8:58, 17:5, al; ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν (for past ptcp.), Rev.1:4, 8, 4:8, 11:17, 16:5 (see Swete, Ap., 5; M, Pr., 228); τὰ (μὴ) ὄντα, Rom.4:17, 1Co.1:28. __2. Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place: Mat.24:3, Mrk.14:2, 15:42, Luk.21:23, Jhn.4:6, 23, 5:10, al. __3.

to be present, be in a place, have come: Mat.2:13, 15, Mrk.1:45, 5:21, 15:40, Luk.1:80, 5:29, Jhn.7:30, al.; before εἰς, Mrk.2:1; before ἐκ, (ἐξ), Mat.1:20, 21:25, Mrk.11:30, Jhn.3:31, al. __4. Impers., ἔστι, ἦν, etc.; __(a) there is (Fr. il y a), was, etc.: Mat.16:28, Luk.16:19, Jhn.3:1, 5:2, Rom.3:10, al.; with dative (of the possessor; Bl., §37, 3), Mat.16:22, Luk.1:7, Jhn.18.10, Rom.9:2, al.; ἔστιν ὅς, ὅστις (chiefly in pl), Mat.16:28, 19:2, Mrk.9:1, al.;

__(b) with inf., = ἔξεστιν (which see), it is possible: Heb.9:5, 1Co.11:20, RV (but see ICC, in l.). __II. As copula uniting subject and predicate. __1. Expressing simply identity or equivalence: Mat.5:13, 14:15, Luk.1:18, 19, Jhn.1:1, 4:19, Rev.3:9, al. mult. __2. Explicative, as in parable, figure, type, etc.: Mat.13:19, 1Co.9:2, 10:4, 11:25, Gal.4:24, Rev.17:15, al.; ταῦτ᾽ ἔστιν, Mat.27:46, Mrk.7:2, Rom.7:18 al.; ὅ ἐστιν, Mrk.3:17, Col.1:24, Heb.7:2, al.;

akin to this is the sacramental usage: Mat.26:26-28, Mrk.14:22, 24, Luk.22:19, 1Co.11:24 (see ICC on Mk, I Co, ll. with; DB, iii, 148 f.). __3. C. genitive: qual., etc., Mrk.5:42, Luk.3:23, 1Co.14:33, Heb.12:11, al.; part., 1Ti.1:20, 2Ti.1:15; poss., Mat.5:3, 10, Mrk.12:7, Luk.4:7; of service or partisanship, Rom.8:9, 1Co.1:12, 2Co.10:7, 2Ti.2:19. __4. C. dative (BL, §37, 3): Act.1:8, 9:15, Rom.4:12, 1Co.1:18, 2:14, Rev.21:7, al. __5. C. ptcp., as a periphrasis for the simple verb (Bl., §62, 1, 2; M, Pr., 225 ff.);

__(a) with ptcp. pf. (cl.): Mat.10:30, Luk.9:32, Jhn.3:24, Act.21:35, 1Co.15:19, al; __(b) with ptcp. pr. (esp. in impf., as in Heb. and Aram.; Dalman, Words, 35 f.), Mat.7:29, Mrk.1:22, Luk.4:31, 14:1, Act.1:10, al. mult., id. for imper. (M, Pr., 180f., 182f.), with ellipsis of εἰμί, Rom.12:9, 10, Heb.13:5, al.; __(with) with ptcp. aor. (cl), Luk.23:9. __6. Seq. εἰς (cf. Heb. הָיָה לְ), a vernac. usage (M, Pr., 71): Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, Heb.8:10, al. __7. C. adv.: Mat.19:20, Mrk.4:26, Luk.18:11, al. __8. Ellipses;

__(a) of the copula (Bl., §30, 3): Mat.8:29, 24:32, Jhn.21:22, 23, Heb.6:4, al.; __(b) of the predicate: ἐγώ εἰμί, Mat.14:27, Mrk.6:50, al.; absol. (cf. Deu.32:39; אֲנִי הוּא), Mrk.13:6, Jhn.4:26, al. (cf. ἄπ-, ἔν-, πάρ-, συμ-πάρ-, σύν-ειμι). (AS)

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How Strong's G5600 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render o, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

may Matthew 6:4 23× should 1 Corinthians 2:5 might Mark 3:14 can John 3:2 would Romans 11:25

How Strong's G5600 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 61 linked usages.

Strong's G5600 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5600 in the New Testament

61 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 6:4 KJV

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Matthew 6:22 KJV

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Matthew 6:23 KJV

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Usage Excerpts

First 61 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5600.

Matthew 6:4 New Testament, KJV
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:22 New Testament, KJV
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew 6:23 New Testament, KJV
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 10:13 New Testament, KJV
And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Matthew 20:4 New Testament, KJV
And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Matthew 20:7 New Testament, KJV
They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Matthew 24:28 New Testament, KJV
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Mark 3:14 New Testament, KJV
And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
Mark 5:18 New Testament, KJV
And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
Luke 10:6 New Testament, KJV
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Luke 11:34 New Testament, KJV
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke 14:8 New Testament, KJV
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
John 3:2 New Testament, KJV
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
John 3:27 New Testament, KJV
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
John 6:65 New Testament, KJV
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
John 9:5 New Testament, KJV
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John 9:31 New Testament, KJV
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John 14:3 New Testament, KJV
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 16:24 New Testament, KJV
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
John 17:11 New Testament, KJV
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:19 New Testament, KJV
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
John 17:21 New Testament, KJV
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 17:22 New Testament, KJV
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John 17:23 New Testament, KJV
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:24 New Testament, KJV
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:26 New Testament, KJV
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Acts 5:38 New Testament, KJV
And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
Romans 9:27 New Testament, KJV
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 11:25 New Testament, KJV
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
1 Corinthians 1:10 New Testament, KJV
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 2:5 New Testament, KJV
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 5:7 New Testament, KJV
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Corinthians 7:29 New Testament, KJV
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians 7:34 New Testament, KJV
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:36 New Testament, KJV
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Corinthians 12:25 New Testament, KJV
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1 Corinthians 14:28 New Testament, KJV
But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
1 Corinthians 15:28 New Testament, KJV
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians 16:4 New Testament, KJV
And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
2 Corinthians 1:9 New Testament, KJV
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians 1:17 New Testament, KJV
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
2 Corinthians 4:7 New Testament, KJV
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Corinthians 9:3 New Testament, KJV
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
2 Corinthians 13:7 New Testament, KJV
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2 Corinthians 13:9 New Testament, KJV
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Galatians 5:10 New Testament, KJV
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Ephesians 4:14 New Testament, KJV
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Ephesians 5:27 New Testament, KJV
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Philippians 1:10 New Testament, KJV
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
Philippians 2:28 New Testament, KJV
I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
1 Timothy 4:15 New Testament, KJV
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1 Timothy 5:7 New Testament, KJV
And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
2 Timothy 3:17 New Testament, KJV
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Titus 1:9 New Testament, KJV
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Titus 3:14 New Testament, KJV
And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
Philemon 1:14 New Testament, KJV
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
James 1:4 New Testament, KJV
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 2:15 New Testament, KJV
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
James 5:15 New Testament, KJV
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
1 John 1:4 New Testament, KJV
And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
2 John 1:12 New Testament, KJV
Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5600, grouped by book.

Matthew 7 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
John 14 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 10 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 6 usages, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 2 usages, New Testament
Philippians 2 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 2 usages, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 2 usages, New Testament
Philemon 1 usage, New Testament
James 3 usages, New Testament
1 John 1 usage, New Testament
2 John 1 usage, New Testament

Strong's G5600 FAQ

What does o (ὦ) mean?

O (Strong's G5600) is a Greek word most simply glossed "might". o (o) (including the oblique forms, as well as es ace; e ay; etc) v. 1. may be, (might, can, could, would, should, must, etc.) be {also with G1487 and its comparative, as well as with other particles}

How many times is o (ὦ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 61 linked usages for Strong's G5600 across 18 books.

Where can I study o (ὦ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5600 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament.

What English words translate o (ὦ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as may, should, might, can, and would. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.