Lexicon
σύ
su
G4771
G:P-2 Greek

you

2,894
Occurrences
27
Books
Greek
Language

su identifies the person or persons directly addressed, in singular and plural forms.

The attested forms identify those addressed in speech, instruction, questions, and statements. Singular forms address an individual, while plural forms address a group; the supplied morphology marks nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive relations without creating separate lexical meanings.

Senses in use

  1. Person or group directly addressed · dominant

    The term marks those being spoken to or spoken about in relation to an address: in 1 Corinthians 10:15 the nominative plural identifies the people told to judge what is asserted, while in 1 Timothy 1:18 singular dative and accusative forms occur in a charge set before Timothy and in prophecies made about him. In 1 Corinthians 12:21, singular genitive forms occur in the mutual statement that the eye and head have no need of the hand or feet.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly presents the addressed person or group with English forms such as “you,” “your,” and “yourself.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, individual English forms cannot always be assigned to a particular occurrence.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture