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ὡς

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greekNew TestamentPreposition505 occurrences26 books443 verses

Definition

ὡς, adverbial form of the relative pron. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.

I. As relat. adv. of manner, as, like as, just as, even as;

1. with a demonstrative, like οὕτως, expressed or understood: οὕτως . . . ὡς, Mark 4:26, 1 Corinthians 3:15, Ephesians 5:28, James 2:12, al.; ὡς . . . οὕτως, Acts 8:32, 1 Corinthians 7:17, al.; elliptically (sc. οὕτως, οὕτω), with nom., Matthew 6:29, al.; with accusative, Matthew 19:19, Mark 12:31, al.; with prep., Matthew 26:55, Mark 14:48, Luke 22:52, John 7:10, al.; with verb., John 15:6, 2 Corinthians 3:1, Ephesians 2:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:6, al.; with ptcp. (the ptcp. however not having the special force wh. it has in cl.; see Bl., §73, 5; 74, 6), Matthew 7:29, Mark 1:22, Hebrews 13:17, al.; freq implying opinion or belief, Romans 9:32; so esp, with genitive absol., 1 Corinthians 4:18, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 1 Peter 4:12, 2 Peter 1:3.

2. Before numerals, about, nearly: Mark 5:13, John 1:40, Acts 5:7, al.

3. Before adjectives and adverbs, how: Romans 10:15; 11:33, 1 Thessalonians 2:10; with superl., ὡς τάχιστα, as quickly as possible, Acts 17:15.

II. As conjunction;

1. temporal,

(a) as, when, since: Mark 9:21; 14:72, Luke 1:23, John 2:9, al.;

(b) while, when, as long as: Luke 12:58, John 12:36, Galatians 6:10 (Field, Notes, 191); ὡς ἄν (M, Pr., 167, and see: ἄν), Romans 15:24, 1 Corinthians 11:34, Philippians 2:23.

2. Final, in order that; with inf., in order to (M, Pr., 204n), Luke 9:52, Acts 20:24, Hebrews 7:9.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ὡς:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

505 total
  1. Acts 5:7ὡς · About
    About three hours later his wife also came in, unaware of what had happened.
  2. Acts 5:24Ὡς · When
    When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
  3. Acts 5:36ὡς · about
    Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.
  4. Acts 7:23Ὡς · When
    When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
  5. Acts 7:37ὡς · like
    This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
  6. Acts 7:51ὡς · as
    You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
  7. Acts 8:32Ὡς · like; ὡς · as
    The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  8. Acts 8:36Ὡς · As
    As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
  9. Acts 9:18ὡς · [something] like
    At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,
  10. Acts 9:23Ὡς · After
    After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,
  11. Acts 10:7Ὡς · When
    When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.
  12. Acts 10:11ὡς · like
    He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
  13. Acts 10:17Ὡς · While
    While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
  14. Acts 10:25Ὡς · As
    As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.
  15. Acts 10:28ὡς · how
    He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
  16. Acts 10:38ὡς · how
    …how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
  17. Acts 10:47ὡς · just as
    “Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”
  18. Acts 11:5ὡς · like
    “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
  19. Acts 11:16ὡς · how
    Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
  20. Acts 11:17ὡς
    So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
  21. Acts 13:18ὡς · about
    He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
  22. Acts 13:20ὡς · [All this took about]
    All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
  23. Acts 13:25ὡς · As
    As John was completing his course, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not that One. But there is One coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’
  24. Acts 13:29Ὡς · When
    When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
  25. Acts 13:33ὡς · As
    He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’
  26. Acts 14:5ὡς · when
    But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
  27. Acts 16:4Ὡς · As
    As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
  28. Acts 16:10ὡς · As soon as
    As soon as Paul had seen the vision, we got ready to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
  29. Acts 16:15ὡς · when
    And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
  30. Acts 17:13Ὡς · when
    But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
  31. Acts 17:15ὡς · as
    Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
  32. Acts 17:22ὡς · that
    Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.
  33. Acts 17:28ὡς · As
    ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
  34. Acts 18:5Ὡς · when
    And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
  35. Acts 19:9ὡς · when
    But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
  36. Acts 19:21Ὡς · After
    After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”
  37. Acts 19:34ὡς · about
    But when they realized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
  38. Acts 20:14ὡς · when
    And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
  39. Acts 20:18Ὡς · When
    When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
  40. Acts 20:20ὡς
    I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
  41. Acts 20:24ὡς · if only
    But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
  42. Acts 21:1Ὡς · After
    After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
  43. Acts 21:12ὡς · When
    When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.
  44. Acts 21:27Ὡς · When
    When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
  45. Acts 22:5ὡς · as
    …as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.
  46. Acts 22:11Ὡς · Because
    Because the brilliance of the light had blinded me, my companions led me by the hand into Damascus.
  47. Acts 22:25Ὡς · as
    But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”
  48. Acts 23:11ὡς · As
    The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”
  49. Acts 23:15ὡς · on the pretext
    Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”