ὅπου

ὅπου — hópou

ὅπου (from ποῦ and the relative ὁ) (from Homer down), where;

1. adverb of place,

a. in which place, where; α. in relative sentences with the indicative it is used to refer to a preceding noun of place; as, ἐπί τῆς γῆς, ὅπου etc. Mat 6:19; add, Mat 6:20; Mat 13:5; Mat 28:6; Mar 6:55; Mar 9:44; Mar 9:46 (which verses T WH omit; Tr brackets), 48; Luk 12:33; Joh 1:28; Joh 4:20; Joh 4:46; Joh 6:23; Joh 7:42; Joh 10:40; Joh 11:30; Joh 12:1; Joh 18:1; Joh 18:20; Joh 19:18; Joh 19:20; Joh 19:41; Joh 20:12; Act 17:1; Rev 11:8; Rev 20:10. it refers to ἐκεῖ or ἐκεῖσε to be mentally supplied in what precedes or follows: Mat 25:24; Mat 25:26; Mar 2:4; Mar 4:15; Mar 5:40; Mar 13:14; Joh 3:8; Joh 6:62; Joh 7:34; Joh 11:32; Joh 14:3; Joh 17:24; Joh 20:19; Rom 15:20; Heb 9:16; Heb 10:18; Rev 2:13. it refers to ἐκεῖ expressed in what follows: Mat 6:21; Luk 12:34; Luk 17:37; Joh 12:26; Jas 3:16. in imitation of the Hebrew שָׁם אֲשֶׁר (Gen 13:3; Ecc 9:10, etc.): ὅπου ἐκεῖ, Rev 12:6 (G T Tr WH), 14 (see ἐκεῖ, a.); ὅπου... ἐπ' αὐτῶν, Rev 17:9. ὅπου also refers to men, so that it is equivalent to with (among) whom, in whose house: Mat 26:57; (add, Rev 2:13; cf. Winers Grammar, § 54, 7 at the end); in which state (viz. of the renewed man), Col 3:11. it is loosely connected with the thought to which it refers, so that it is equivalent to wherein (A. V. whereas), 2Pe 2:11 (in the same sense in indirect question, Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 1). ὅπου ἄν, wherever — with imperfect indicative (see ἄν, II. 1), Mar 6:56 (Tdf. ἐάν); with aorist subjunctive (Latin future perfect), Mar 9:18 (where L T Tr WH ὅπου ἐάν); Mar 14:9 (here too T WH ὅπου ἐάν); also ὅπου ἐάν (see ἐάν, II.), Mat 26:13; Mar 6:10; Mar 14:14 a (in both of the last two passages, L Tr ὅπου ἄν); with subjunctive present Mat 24:28. β. in indirect questions (yet cf. Winer's Grammar, § 57, 2 at the end), with subjunctive aorist: Mar 14:14 b; Luk 22:11.

b. joined to verbs signifying motion into a place instead of ὅποι, into which place, whither (see ἐκεῖ, b.): followed by the indicative, Joh 8:21; Joh 13:33; Joh 13:36; Joh 14:4; Joh 21:18; (Jas 3:4 T Tr WH (see below)); ὅπου ἄν, where (whither) soever, with indicative present, Rev 14:4 L Tr WH (cf. below), cf. Buttmann, § 139, 30; with subjunctive present, Luk 9:57 R G T WH (others, ὅπου ἐάν, see below); Jas 3:4 (R G L); Rev 14:4 R G T (see above); ὅπου ἐάν, with subjunctive present, Mat 8:19, and L Tr in Luk 9:57.

2. It gets the force of a conditional particle if (in case that, in so far as (A. V. whereas (cf. 2Pe 2:11 above))): 1Co 3:3 (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 43, 1 [ET], and often in Greek writings; cf. Grimm on 4Ma 2:14; Meyer on 1Co 3:3; (Müller on the Epistle of Barnabas 16, 63).