ō · O

What it means

ō (ὦ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “O”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. O!, when addressing someone strongly or warmly.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• O ×15
• Omega ×3
• Men ×1
• You ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×4
• Romans×4
• Galatians×1
• 1 Timothy×2
• James×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 15:28

  Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

• Matthew 17:17

  And Jesus answered and said, “O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

• Mark 9:19

  And he answered them and says, “O unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him to me.”

• Luke 9:41

  And Jesus answered and said, “O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

• Luke 24:25

  And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

• Acts 1:1

  The first account I made, O Theophilus, about all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

• Acts 13:10

  and said, “You full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

• Acts 18:14

  But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were some wrongdoing or wicked crime, O Jews, I would with reason have put up with you;

• Acts 27:21

  And as there was much lack of food, then Paul, standing in their midst, said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete and so spared yourselves this damage and loss.

• Romans 2:1

  Therefore you are without excuse, O human being, everyone who judges; for in what you judge the other, you condemn yourself, for you who judge practice the same things.

• Romans 2:3

  And do you suppose this, O human being, you who judge those who practice such things and do them, that you will escape the judgment of God?

• Romans 9:20

  On the contrary, who are you, O human being, who answer back to God? The thing formed will not say to the one who formed it, will it: Why did you make me like this?

• Romans 11:33

  O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways!

• Galatians 3:1

  O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus the Messiah was publicly portrayed as crucified?

• 1 Timothy 6:11

  But you, O man of God, flee these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from the profane empty chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge,

• James 2:20

  But do you want to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is barren?

• Revelation 1:8

  “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, the one who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

• Revelation 21:6

  And he said to me, “They are done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life freely.

• Revelation 22:13

  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.