◄ 3689. ontós ►
Strong's Concordance
ontós: really, truly
Original Word: ὄντως
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: ontós
Phonetic Spelling: (on'-toce)
Short Definition: really, truly
Definition: really, truly, actually.
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3689 óntōs (the adverbial form of 1510 /eimí, "to be") – properly, exist; really be (exist, as reality). 3689 /óntōs ("substance as reality") is usually translated "indeed" and refers to what is genuinely important ("real").

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3689: ὄντως

ὄντως (from ὄν; on adverbs formed from participles cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 115 a. Anm. 3; Kühner, § 335 Anm. 2), adverb, truly, in reality, in point of fact, as opposed to what is pretended, fictitious, false, conjectural: Mark 11:32 (see ἔχω, I. 1 f.); Luke 23:47; Luke 24:34; John 8:36; 1 Corinthians 14:25; Galatians 3:21 and Rec. in 2 Peter 2:18; ὁ, ἡ, τό ὄντως followed by a noun, that which is truly etc., that which is indeed (τά ὄντως ἀγατα ἤ καλά, P'lat. Phaedr., p. 260 a.; τήν ὄντως καί ἀληθῶς φιλίαν, Plato, Clit., p. 409 e.; οἱ ὄντως βασιλεῖς, Josephus, Antiquities 15, 3, 5): as ἡ ὄντως (Rec. αἰώνιος) ζωή, 1 Timothy 6:19; ἡ ὄντως χήρα, a widow that is a widow indeed, not improperly called a widow (as παρθένος ἡ λεγομένη χήρα, i. e., a virgin that has taken a vow of celibacy, in Ignatius ad Smyrn. 13 [ET] (cf. Lightfoot, in the place cited); cf. Baur, Die sogen. Pastoralbriefe, p. 46ff), 1 Timothy 5:3, 5, 16. (Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and following; the Sept. for אֻמְנָם, Numbers 22:37; for אָכֵן, Jeremiah 3:23; for אַך, Jeremiah 10:19.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
certainly, clean, indeed, verily.

Adverb of the oblique cases of on; really -- certainly, clean, indeed, of a truth, verily.

see GREEK on

Forms and Transliterations
οντως όντως ὄντως όνυξι όνυχα όνυχας όνυχες όνυχι ονυχίζει ονυχίζον ονυχιζόντων ονύχιον ονυχιστήρας όνυχος ονύχων οξέως ontos ontōs óntos óntōs
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Strong's Greek 3689
10 Occurrences


ὄντως — 10 Occ.

Mark 11:32 Adv
GRK: τὸν Ἰωάννην ὄντως ὅτι προφήτης
NAS: John to have been a real prophet.
KJV: he was a prophet indeed.
INT: John indeed that a prophet

Luke 23:47 Adv
GRK: θεὸν λέγων Ὄντως ὁ ἄνθρωπος
NAS: God, saying, Certainly this man
KJV: God, saying, Certainly this was
INT: God saying Indeed the man

Luke 24:34 Adv
GRK: λέγοντας ὅτι ὄντως ἠγέρθη ὁ
NAS: The Lord has really risen
KJV: is risen indeed, and
INT: saying indeed Is risen the

John 8:36 Adv
GRK: ὑμᾶς ἐλευθερώσῃ ὄντως ἐλεύθεροι ἔσεσθε
NAS: you will be free indeed.
KJV: ye shall be free indeed.
INT: you shall set free indeed free you will be

1 Corinthians 14:25 Adv
GRK: ἀπαγγέλλων ὅτι Ὄντως ὁ θεὸς
NAS: that God is certainly among
KJV: in you of a truth.
INT: declaring that indeed God

Galatians 3:21 Adv
GRK: δυνάμενος ζωοποιῆσαι ὄντως ἐκ νόμου
NAS: then righteousness would indeed have been
KJV: have given life, verily righteousness
INT: was able to give life indeed from out of law

1 Timothy 5:3 Adv
GRK: τίμα τὰς ὄντως χήρας
NAS: widows who are widows indeed;
KJV: widows that are widows indeed.
INT: highly value that [are] indeed widows

1 Timothy 5:5 Adv
GRK: ἡ δὲ ὄντως χήρα καὶ
NAS: she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone,
KJV: she that is a widow indeed, and
INT: she who moreover indeed a widow and

1 Timothy 5:16 Adv
GRK: ἵνα ταῖς ὄντως χήραις ἐπαρκέσῃ
NAS: those who are widows indeed.
KJV: them that are widows indeed.
INT: that to the truly [needy] widows it might impart relief

1 Timothy 6:19 Adv
GRK: ἐπιλάβωνται τῆς ὄντως ζωῆς
NAS: of that which is life indeed.
INT: they might lay hold of that which is indeed life

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