hou · where

What it means

hou (οὗ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “where”.

"Where", "to where".

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. Points to the place where something is or to which one goes.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• where ×24
• wherever ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Luke×5
• Acts×9
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 2:9

  And they, having heard the king, went on their way; and look, the star that they had seen at its rising was going ahead of them until it came and stopped over where the child was.

• Matthew 18:20

  For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them.”

• Matthew 28:16

  Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them.

• Luke 4:16

  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and according to his custom he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

• Luke 4:17

  And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:

• Luke 10:1

  Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy-two others also, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

• Luke 23:53

  And taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a tomb cut in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

• Luke 24:28

  And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he were going farther.

• Acts 1:13

  And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

• Acts 2:2

  And suddenly there came from heaven a roar like that of a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

• Acts 7:29

  And at this word Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

• Acts 12:12

  And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and praying.

• Acts 16:13

  And on the day of the Sabbath we went out outside the gate beside a river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and sitting down, we were speaking to the women who had gathered.

• Acts 20:6

  But we sailed away after the days of Unleavened Bread from Philippi, and came to them at Troas within five days, where we stayed seven days.

• Acts 20:8

  And there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.

• Acts 25:10

  And Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you also know very well.

• Acts 28:14

  where we found brothers and were urged to stay with them seven days; and so we came to Rome.

• Romans 4:15

  For the law brings about wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

• Romans 5:20

  Now the law came in alongside so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

• Romans 9:26

  And it will be that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be called sons of the living God.

• 1 Corinthians 16:6

  and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

• 2 Corinthians 3:17

  Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

• Colossians 3:1

  So if you were raised with the Messiah, seek the things above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

• Hebrews 3:9

  where your fathers tested me by putting me to the proof, and saw my works

• Revelation 17:15

  And he says to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.