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3588 ~ὁ~ ho \@ho\@ including the feminine ~ἤ~ he \@hay,\@ and the neuter ~το~ to \@to\@ in all their inflections, the definite article; article AV-which 413, who 79, the things 11, the son 8, misc 32; 543

1) this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

• STRONGS NT 3588: ὁ

ὁ, ἡ, τό, originally τος, τῇ, τό (as is evident from the forms τοι, ται for οἱ, αἱ in Homer and the Ionic writings), corresponds to our definite article the (German der, die, das), which is properly a demonstrative pronoun, which we see in its full force in Homer, and of which we find certain indubitable traces also in all kinds of Greek prose, and hence also in the N. T.

I. As a demonstrative pronoun; Latinhic, hacc, hoc; German der, die, das, emphatic; cf. Winers Grammar, § 17, 1; Buttmann, 101f (89f);

1. in the words of the poet Aratus of Soli, a third-century B.C.E. poet who lived in Cilicia, τοῦ γάρ καί γένος ἐσμεν,(“for we are also his children”) quoted by Paul in Acts 17:28.