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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 surrounding area; and [fn]behold, he saw the smoke of the land ascended 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, “May I not [fn]see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and raised 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, say ten; afterward she may go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - Now the first came out 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 like a prostitute?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - 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 judge his people,

As one of the tribes of Israel.

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The LORD furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand inside the fold of your robe.” So he put his hand inside the fold, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

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“The waters cover them;

They went down into the depths like a stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 -

“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,

The flowing waters stood up like a heap;

The depths 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 mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - When the layer of dew [fn]evaporated, 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 carried 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; 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 to the eyes of the sons of Israel, the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:33 - “You shall make on its hem pomegranates of violet, 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 said to them, ‘I will multiply your [fn]descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your [fn]descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - ‘I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

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

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Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of [fn]bdellium.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people would roam about and gather it and grind it [fn]between two millstones, or pound it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make loaves with it; and its taste was like the taste of [fn]cake baked with oil.

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

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Now a wind burst forth from the LORD and it brought quail from the sea, and dropped them 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 about [fn]two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:10 - But when the cloud had withdrawn from above the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:33 - “We also saw the [fn]Nephilim there (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like [fn]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 [fn]all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will [fn]say,

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“Like [fn]valleys that stretch out,

Like gardens beside a river,

Like aloes planted by the LORD,

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 lead them out and [fn]bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - ‘The LORD 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 - “And I took your [fn]sinful thing which you had made, the calf, and burned it in the fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream 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 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, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it [fn]by your foot like a vegetable garden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you will be groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be [fn]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you.

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“The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down; a nation whose language you will not understand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - “Then you will be left few in [fn]number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not [fn]obey the LORD your God.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 -

“May my teaching drip as the rain,

My speech trickle as the dew,

As droplets on the fresh grass,

And as the showers on the vegetation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - and when those who were carrying the ark came up to the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark [fn]stepped down into 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 - that [fn]he 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 mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - “I am still as strong today as I was on 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 - They struck and killed about ten thousand Moabites at that time, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - Yet the LORD said to him, “I will certainly be with you, and you will [fn]defeat Midian as one man.”

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Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their [fn]armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the entire [fn]army of the [fn]people of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 [fn]swordsmen.

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Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where were the men whom you killed at Tabor?” But they said, “You and they were alike, each one [fn]resembling the son of a king.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, so that he tore it apart as one tears apart 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 the LORD rushed upon him so that the ropes that were on his arms were like flax that has burned with fire, and his restraints [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 governors of the Philistines were there. And about three thousand men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was entertaining them.

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