καθώς (i. e. 
καθ' ὡς), a particle found occasionally in secular authors from 
Aristotle down for the Attic 
καθά and 
καθό, but emphatically censured by Phryn. and the Atticists; cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 74ff; 
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 425f; (
Winer's Grammar, 26 (25)); 
1. according as, just as, even as: in the first member of a comparison, 
Luke 6:31; 
1 John 2:27; followed by 
οὕτως in the second member (cf. 
Winer's Grammar, § 53, 5), 
Luke 11:30; 
Luke 17:26; 
John 3:14; 
2 Corinthians 1:5; 
2 Corinthians 10:7; 
Colossians 3:13; 
1 John 2:6; followed by 
καί also, John 15:9; 
John 17:18; 
John 20:21; 
1 John 2:18; 
1 John 4:17; 
1 Corinthians 15:49; it is annexed to preceding words after the demonstrative 
οὕτως, 
Luke 24:24; with 
οὕτως unexpressed, 
Matthew 21:6; 
Matthew 28:6; 
Mark 16:7; 
Luke 1:2, 
55, 
70; 
Luke 11:1; 
John 1:23; 
John 5:23; 
Acts 10:47 (here 
L T Tr WH ὡς); 
Acts 15:8; 
Romans 1:13; 
Romans 15:7; 
1 Corinthians 8:2; 
1 Corinthians 10:6; 
2 Corinthians 1:14; 
2 Corinthians 9:3; 
2 Corinthians 11:12; 
Ephesians 4:17, and often; 
καθώς διδάσκω, agreeably to my method of teaching, 
1 Corinthians 4:17; 
καθώς γέγραπται, 
Matthew 26:24; 
Mark 9:13; 
Acts 7:42; 
Acts 15:15; 
Romans 1:17, and often in Paul; the apodosis lacking, and to be gathered from the context: 
καθώς παρεκάλεσα σε... 
ἐν πίστει, namely, 
οὕτω καί νῦν παρακαλῶ, 
1 Timothy 1:3, cf. 
Winers Grammar, 570 (530); (
Buttmann, 386 (331)); 
ἤρξατο αἰτεῖσθαι (namely, 
οὕτω ποιεῖν αὐτοῖς), 
καθώς κτλ.. 
Mark 15:8 (
Buttmann, § 151, 23 b.; cf. 
Winer's Grammar, 584 (543f)); in comparison by contrary we find the negligent use: 
ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλληλου, 
οὐ καθώς Κάϊν κτλ., 
1 John 3:11f, cf. DeWette at the passage and 
Winer's Grammar, 623 (579); 
οὗτος ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος... 
οὐ καθώς etc., not such as they ate etc., 
John 6:58. with the verb 
εἰμί, equivalent to Latin 
qualis, 
such as, 1 John 3:2; in a parenthesis, 
1 Thessalonians 2:13 (as it is in truth). 
2. according as i. e. in proportion as, in the degree that: 
Mark 4:33; 
Acts 7:17 (cf. Meyer at the passage); 
Acts 11:29; 
1 Corinthians 12:11, 
18; 
1 Peter 4:10. 
3. since, seeing that, agreeably to the fact that (cf. 
Winer's Grammar, § 53, 8; 448 (417)): 
John 17:2; 
Romans 1:28 (yet here others regard 
καθώς as corresponsive rather than causal or explanatory); 
1 Corinthians 1:6; 
1 Corinthians 5:7; 
Ephesians 1:4; 
Philippians 1:7. 
4. it is put for the simple 
ὡς,
a. after verbs of speaking, in indirect discourse, 
Acts 15:14; it serves to add an epexegesis, 
3 John 1:3 (to 
σου τῇ ἀλήθεια). 
b. of time, 
when, after that (cf. Latin 
ut): 2 Macc. 1:31; (
Nehemiah 5:6); here many bring in 
Acts 7:17; but see 2 above. 
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