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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 19:28 - and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the [fn]valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a [fn]furnace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me [fn]see when the child dies.” And she sat opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman stay with us a few days, or even ten; afterward she will go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they said, “Should he [fn]treat our sister as a harlot?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Thus Joseph stored up grain [fn]in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped [fn]measuring it, for it was [fn]beyond measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 -

“Dan shall render justice to his people,

As one of the tribes of Israel.

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And Yahweh furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom; then he took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

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“The deeps cover them;

They went down into the depths like a stone.

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“And at the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,

The flowing waters stood up like a heap;

The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

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“You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;

They sank like lead in the [fn]mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - Then the layer of dew [fn]evaporated, and behold, on the [fn]surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the 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 lifted you up on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet [fn]there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, [fn]as clear as the sky itself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the mountain top, in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:33 - “You shall make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material, all around on its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You said to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - ‘I will also break down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - ‘They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength [fn]to stand up before your enemies.

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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 would go about and gather it and grind it [fn]between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of [fn]cakes baked with oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - “Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who gave birth to them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a [fn]nurse carries a nursing baby, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?

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Now there went forth a wind from Yahweh, and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp and [fn]about two [fn]cubits over the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:10 - But the cloud withdrew from over the tent, and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - “Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:33 - “There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - “Now if You put this people to death as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will [fn]say,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 -

“Like [fn]valleys that stretch out,

Like gardens beside the river,

Like aloes planted by Yahweh,

Like cedars beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:17 - who will go out [fn]and come in before them, and who will lead them out and [fn]bring them in, so that the congregation of Yahweh will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - ‘Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - “Now I took your [fn]sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - “For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your [fn]foot like a vegetable garden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you will [fn]grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed all your days, with none to save you.

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“Yahweh will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - “Then you shall remain few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 -

“Let what I have learned drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

As the droplets on the fresh grass

And as the showers on the herb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - and when those who carried the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest),

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - they feared exceedingly because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - “I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they struck down at that time about 10,000 Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - But Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike down Midian as one man.”

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Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about 15,000 men, all who were left of the entire camp of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 men who drew the sword.

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Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” And they said, “They were like you, each one [fn]resembling the son of a king.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - And the Spirit of Yahweh [fn]came upon him mightily, so that he tore it as one tears a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

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When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of Yahweh [fn]came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds [fn]dropped from his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And about 3,000 men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was amusing them.

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