σύ G4675
your, yours; second person singular possessive pronoun (genitive form used as possessive)
This is the genitive form of the second person singular pronoun functioning as a possessive: 'your' or 'yours.' Greek regularly used the genitive case of personal pronouns to indicate possession rather than having separate possessive adjectives for all persons. So σοῦ or its enclitic form σου meant 'of you' or 'your,' appearing in contexts like 'your father,' 'your faith,' 'your house.' The form could be emphatic or enclitic depending on the emphasis needed. This grammatical feature made Greek pronouns highly efficient while maintaining clear distinctions between 'your' (singular) and 'your' (plural), a distinction lost in modern English.
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
σύ [ῠ], thou: pronoun of the second person:—Epic dialect nominative τύνη [ῡ] Refs 8th c.BC+ (Laconian dialect τούνη Refs 5th c.AD+; Aeolic dialect σύ Refs 7th c.BC+; Doric dialect τύ [ῠ] Refs 5th c.BC+; Boeotian dialect τού [short syllable] Refs 6th c.BC+ (also τούν Refsσύ, Refs 8th c.BC+—Gen. σοῦ, Refs, elsewhere only Attic dialect, Refs 5th c.BC+; enclitic σου, Refs 8th c.BC+ (also in Lyric…