Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὦν ‎(ôn) Ionic, Doric

Particle

οὖν • ‎(oûn) (Attic, Epic)

1. then (implying temporal sequence)
2. therefore (implying causal sequence)
3. Marker of the continuation of a previously interrupted line of thought: "As I was saying..."
4. Added to indefinite pronoun or adverb, such as ὁστισοῦν ‎(hostisoûn), to make it more general: whoever, whatever; whosoever

References

• οὖν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οὖν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οὖν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οὖν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «οὖν» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• οὖν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3767”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accordingly idem, page 7.
  • consequently idem, page 163.
  • now idem, page 561.
  • so idem, page 790.
  • then idem, page 865.
  • therefore idem, page 865.