Strong’s G5613 · Greek

ὡς
hōs

Definition

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

Etymology

probably adverb of comparative from G3739 (ὅς);

Where the KJV renders it

  • 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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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