🇬🇷 Greek · Strong's G5613
G5613

ὡς

hōs [hoce] Adverb
Core meaningwhich/how

Lexical Definition

Strong's Greek G5613

which how, i.e. in that manner (very variously used, as follows)

KJV usage: :--about, after (that), (according) as (it had been, it were), as soon (as), even as (like), for, how (greatly), like (as, unto), since, so (that), that, to wit, unto, when(-soever), while, X with all speed.
Etymology: probably adverb of comparative from ;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon

conjunction formed from the relative pronoun ὅς, used as a comparative part. and conj., as, correlatively, Mk. 4:26; Jn. 7:46; Rom. 5:15; as, like as, Mt. 10:16; Eph. 5:8; according as, Gal. 6:10; as, as it were, Rev. 8:8; as, Lk. 16:1; Acts 3:12; before numerals, about, Mk. 5:13; conj. that, Acts 10:28; how, Rom. 11:2; when, Mt. 28:9; Phil. 2:23; as an exclamatory particle, how, Rom. 10:15; equivalent to ὥστε, accordingly, Heb. 3:11; also, on condition that, provided that, Acts 20:24; ὡς εἰπεῖν, so to speak, Heb. 7:9

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