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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 3 / 3 (Psa 102:9–Jon 3:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:9 - For I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like an evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:26 - They will perish, but you will remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:15 - As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:2 - covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - He clothed himself with cursing as his coat;
may it soak[fn] into his body like water,
like oil into his bones!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:19 - May it be like a garment that he wraps around him,
like a belt that he puts on every day!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - I am gone like a shadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:29 - May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;
may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:4 - The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:6 - O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:12 - They surrounded me like bees;
they went out like a fire among thorns;
in the name of the LORD I cut them off!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:4 - Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the children[fn] of one’s youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:3 - They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s,
and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4 - Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:16 - He gives snow like wool;
he scatters frost like ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:17 - He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs;
who can stand before his cold?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:14 - She is like the ships of the merchant;
she brings her food from afar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 - “Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
awesome as an army with banners?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - The light of Israel will become a fire,
and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:11 - Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:3 - All you inhabitants of the world,
you who dwell on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, hear!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:4 - They shall spring up among the grass
like willows by flowing streams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 - He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver he hid me away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:12 - “I, I am he who comforts you;
who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,
of the son of man who is made like grass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O you hope of Israel,
its savior in time of trouble,
why should you be like a stranger in the land,
like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt rises like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge.
He said, ‘I will rise, I will cover the earth,
I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:37 - A sword against her horses and against her chariots,
and against all the foreign troops in her midst,
that they may become women!
A sword against all her treasures,
that they may be plundered!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:14 - The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself:
Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts,
and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30 - The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;
they remain in their strongholds;
their strength has failed;
they have become women;
her dwellings are on fire;
her bars are broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:22 - Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse, shining like awe-inspiring crystal, spread out above their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35 - Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:19 - Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:4 - The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:6 - After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:8 - I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:9 - “As I looked,
thrones were placed,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat;
his clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames;
its wheels were burning fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6 - His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,[fn] three days’ journey in breadth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

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