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Lexicon :: Strong's G5616 - hōsei

Aa
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 passage); 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 21:16 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 -
Dan shall judge his people,
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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

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The deeps cover them:
They went down into the depths like a stone.

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And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up,
The floods stood upright as a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 -
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them:
They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:4 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:33 - And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:7 - And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:10 - And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:33 - And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

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As valleys are they spread forth,
As gardens by the river-side,
As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted,
As cedar-trees beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:17 - who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Jehovah be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

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My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
My speech shall distil as the dew,
As the small rain upon the tender grass,
And as the showers upon the herb.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they smote of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - And Jehovah said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 - Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off 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 there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

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