Strong’s G5620 · Greek
ὥστε
hṓste
Definition
so too, i.e. thus therefore (in various relations of consecution, as follow)
Etymology
from G5613 (ὡς) and G5037 (τέ);
Where the KJV renders it
- (insomuch) as
- so that (then)
- (insomuch) that
- therefore
- to
- wherefore
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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