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Lexicon :: Strong's G5616 - hōsei

Strong's

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ὡσεί

Transliteration

hōsei (Key)

Pronunciation

ho-si'

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Part of Speech

adverb

Root Word (Etymology)

From ὡς (G5613) and εἰ (G1487)

Greek Inflections of ὡσεί [?]

mGNT
21x in 1 unique form(s) TR
34x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
171x in 1 unique form(s)

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Strong's Info

Strong’s Definitions

ὡσεί hōseí, ho-si'; from G5613 and G1487; as if:—about, as (it had been, it were), like (as).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's G5616 in the following manner: about (18x), as (7x), like (5x), as it had been (2x), as it were (1x), like as (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's G5616 in the following manner: about (18x), as (7x), like (5x), as it had been (2x), as it were (1x), like as (1x).

Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

as it were, (had been), as though, as, like as, like
about, nearly
1. before numerals
2. before a measure of time

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)

ὡσεί hōseí, ho-si'; from G5613 and G1487; as if:—about, as (it had been, it were), like (as).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)

STRONGS G5616:

ὡσεί (ὡς and εἰ (Tdf. Proleg., p. 110)), adverb, from Homer down, properly, as if, i. e.
a. as it were (had been), as though, as, like as, like: Matthew 3:16; Matthew 9:36 (Treg. ὡς); Luke 3:22 (L T Tr WH ὡς); Acts 2:3; Acts 6:15; Acts 9:18 (L T Tr WH ὡς); Romans 6:13 L T Tr WH; Hebrews 1:12; also Rec. in Mark 1:10; John 1:32; γίνεσθαι ὡσεί, Matthew 28:4 R G; Mark 9:26; Luke 22:44 (L brackets WH reject the passive); εἶναι ὡσεί, Matthew 28:3 (L T Tr WH ὡς), and Rec. in Hebrews 11:12 and Revelation 1:14; φαίνεσθαι ὡσεί τί, to appear like a thing, Luke 24:11.
b. about, nearly:
α. before numerals: Matthew 14:21; Luke 1:56 (R G); Luke 3:23; 9:14,28; 22:41,59; 23:44; John 6:10 (R G L (others ὡς)); Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4 (R G); Acts 10:3 (in L T Tr WH it is strengthened here by the addition of περί); Acts 19:7; also, Rec. in Mark 6:44; R G in John 4:6; John 19:14 (G?), 39; Acts 5:36; Lachmann in John 6:19 (Judges 3:29; Nehemiah 7:66; Xenophon, Hell. 1, 2, 9; 2, 4, 25).
β. before a measure of space: ὡσεί λίθου βολήν, Luke 22:41.

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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Judges: 3:29
Nehemiah: 7:66
Matthew: 3:16; 9:36; 14:21; 28:3; 28:4
Mark: 1:10; 6:44; 9:26
Luke: 1:56; 3:22; 3:23; 9:14; 9:28; 22:41; 22:41; 22:44; 22:59; 23:44; 24:11
John: 1:32; 4:6; 6:10; 6:19; 19:14
Acts: 2:3; 2:41; 4:4; 5:36; 6:15; 9:18; 10:3; 19:7
Romans: 6:13
Hebrews: 1:12; 11:12
Revelation: 1:14

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Strong's Number G5616 matches the Greek ὡσεί (hōsei),
which occurs 171 times in 147 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Gen 21:16 - And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bow-shot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.

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Gen 24:55 - And her brethren and her mother said, Let the virgin remain with us about ten days, and after that she shall depart.

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Gen 25:25 - And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.

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Gen 34:31 - And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?

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Gen 41:49 - And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

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Gen 49:16 - Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel.

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Exo 4:6 - And the Lord said again to him, Put thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom, and brought his hand out of his bosom, and his hand became as snow.

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Exo 15:5 - He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.

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Exo 15:10 - Thou sentest forth thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

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Exo 16:14 - in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.

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Exo 19:4 - Ye have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles' wings, and I brought you near to myself.

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Exo 24:10 - And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and under his feet was as it were a work of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.

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Exo 24:17 - And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.

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Exo 28:33 - And under the fringe of the robe below thou shalt make as it were pomegranates of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun, under the fringe of the robe round about: golden pomegranates of the same shape, and bells round about between these.

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Exo 32:13 - remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

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Lev 26:37 - And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and ye shall not be able to withstand your enemies.

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Num 11:7 - And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoarfrost.

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Num 11:8 - And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.

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Num 11:12 - Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers?

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Num 11:31 - And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.

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Num 12:12 - Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.

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Num 13:33 - And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.

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Num 14:15 - And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

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Num 24:6 - as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.

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Deu 1:10 - The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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Deu 10:22 - With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

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Deu 11:10 - For the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:

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Deu 28:62 - And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God.

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Deu 32:2 - Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.

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Jos 3:15 - And when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped in part of the water of Jordan; (now Jordan [fn]overflowed all its banks [fn]about the time of wheat harvest:)

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Jos 14:11 - I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

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Jdg 3:29 - And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.

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Jdg 6:16 - And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord shall be with thee, and thou shalt smite Madiam as one man.

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Jdg 8:10 - And Zebee and Salmana were in Carcar, and their host was with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the host of the aliens; and they that fell were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.

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Jdg 9:49 - And they cut down likewise even every man a branch, and went after Abimelech, and laid them against the place of gathering, and burnt the place of gathering over them with fire; and they died, even all the men of the tower of Sicima, about a thousand men and women.

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Jdg 14:6 - And the Spirit of the Lord [fn]came powerfully upon him, and he crushed him as he [fn]would have crushed a kid of the goats, and there was nothing in his hands: and he told not his father and his mother what he had done.

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Jdg 15:14 - And they came to [fn]Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.

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Jdg 16:27 - And the house was full of men and women, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women looking at the sports of Sampson.

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