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Lexicon :: Strong's G5616 - hōsei

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ὡσεί
Transliteration
hōsei (Key)
Pronunciation
ho-si'
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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 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).

  1. as it were, (had been), as though, as, like as, like

  2. 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).
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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 19:28–Jdg 16:27)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - “Dan shall judge his people
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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Again, the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.”[fn] And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous[fn] like snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5 - The floods covered them;
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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 - You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;
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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:4 - ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:7 - Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:33 - And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - Like palm groves[fn] that stretch afar,
like gardens beside a river,
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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,[fn] like a garden of vegetables.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[fn] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - he[fn] feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.

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