ΟΙΣΤΙΣΙΝ, οιστισιν
OISTISIN, oistisin
Sounds Like: OH-stee-seen
Translations: whoever, whatever, whichever, whosoever, whatsoever, whichsoever, (to) whoever, (to) whatever, (to) whichever, (to) whosoever, (to) whatsoever, (to) whichsoever
From the root: ΟΣΤΙΣ
Part of Speech: Pronoun
Explanation: ΟΙΣΤΙΣΙΝ is an inflected form of the indefinite relative pronoun ὅστις (hostis), meaning 'whoever' or 'whatever'. It is used to introduce a clause that refers to an unspecified person or thing, often implying 'anyone who' or 'anything that'. It functions similarly to 'who' or 'what' but with an added sense of indefiniteness or generality. In this form, it indicates the dative case, meaning it typically functions as an indirect object or indicates the recipient of an action.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, All genders
Strong’s number: G3748 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 1:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΣΤΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΑΙΤΙΝ — whoever, whatever, which, which ones, those who, the ones who
- ΑΙΤΙΝΕΣ — which, who
- ΗΝΤΙΝΑ — which, who, whatever, whichever
- ΗΝΤΙΣ — whoever, whichever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, which, who, what
- ΗΤΙΝΙΟΥΝ — to whomsoever, to whatsoever, to any, to any whatsoever
- ΟΙΣΤΙΣΙ — whoever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, which, what
- ΟΙΤΙΝΕΣ — whoever, whosoever, those who, which
- ΟΝΤΙΝ' — whoever, whatever, anyone who, anything that
- ΟΝΤΙΝΑΟΥΝ — whoever, whosoever, anyone, anything
- ΟΣΤΙΣΔΗΠΟΤΟΥΝ — whoever, whosoever, whatever, whatsoever, anybody at all, anything at all
- ΟΤΟΥ — of whom, of which, of whatever, of whoever
- ΟΤΟΥ̓ΜΟΥ — (of) whoever, (of) whatever, (of) anyone who, (of) anything that
- ΟΥΣΤΙΝΑΣ — whomever, whichever, whatever, anyone whom, any whom
- ΩΤΙΝΙ — whoever, whatever, whosoever, whatsoever, anyone who, anything which, (to) whoever, (to) whatever
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