Hína — G2443

G2443 · Greek — ἵνα

Pronunciation: hin'-ah

Definition

conjunction

compare

  1. an adverb of place, from Homer down, especially in the poets
      1. where
      2. to what place
  2. a final conjunction (for from local direction, indicated by the adverb, the transition was easy to mental direction or intention) denoting purpose and end
    1. properly, of the purpose or end
      1. followed by the optative
      2. followed by the subjunctive, not only (according to the rule observed by the best Greek writers) after the primary tenses (present, perfect, future) or the imperative, but (in accordance with that well-known negligence with which in later times and especially by Hellenistic writers the distinction between the subjunctive and the optative was disregarded) after preterites even where the more elegant Greek writers were accustomed to use the optative
      3. As secular authors join the final particles ὄφρα, μή, and especially ὅπως, also with the future indicative , as being in nature akin to the subjunctive, so the N. T. writings, according to a usage extremely doubtful among the better Greek writings , also join ἵνα with the same
      4. e. above)
      5. β. above))
      6. the final sentence is preceded by preparatory demonstrative expressions
    2. In later Greek, and especially in Hellenistic writers, the final force of the particle ἵνα is more or less weakened, so that it is frequently used where the earlier Greeks employed the infinitive, yet so that the leading and the dependent sentence have each its own subject. The first extant instance of this use occurs in the Amphictyonic decree in (pseudo-) Demosthenes, p. 279, 8
      1. after verbs of saying (commanding, asking, exhorting; but by no means after κελεύειν )
      2. after words by which judgment is pronounced concerning that which someone is about to do (or which is going to happen), as to whether it is expedient, befitting, proper, or not
      3. after substantives, to which it adds a more exact definition of the thing
      4. it looks back to a demonstrative pronoun
    3. According to a very ancient tenet of the grammarians, accepted by Kühner, § 563, 2
    4. The elliptical use of the particle
      1. the telic ἵνα often depends on a verb not expressed, but to be repeated or educed from the context
      2. the weakened ἵνα with the subjunctive denotes something which one wishes to be done by another, so that before the ἵνα a verb of commanding (exhorting, wishing) must be mentally supplied (or, as is commonly said, it forms a periphrasis for the imperative)
      3. ἵνα without a verb following — which the reader is left to gather from the context
    5. Generally ἵνα stands first in the final sentence

Usually translated as

that, to, to the intent, albeit, because, so as, lest

Origin

probably from the same as the former part of G1438 (through the demonstrative idea

Occurrences

Hína occurs 611 times in 577 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (36), Mark (57), Luke (42), John (126), Acts (14), Romans (27), 1 Corinthians (46), 2 Corinthians (35), Galatians (14), Ephesians (20), Philippians (11), Colossians (10), 1 Thessalonians (5), 2 Thessalonians (7), 1 Timothy (13), 2 Timothy (5), Titus (13), Philemon (4), Hebrews (15), James (2), 1 Peter (13), 2 Peter (1), 1 John (19), 2 John (4), 3 John (2), Revelation (36)

Strong's Lexicon — H