For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ὡς
Vocabulary form:
wJV
Definition:
as, like, when, that, how, about
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
504
GK:
6055
Notes:
"About" in the sense of "approximately."
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 10:17 | Now while (hōs | ὡς | conj) Peter was perplexed within himself as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate |
| Acts 10:25 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and worshiped him. |
| Acts 10:28 | And he said to them, “You yourselves know how (hōs | ὡς | conj) unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another race, but God showed me that I should call no person common or unclean. |
| Acts 10:38 | Jesus of Nazareth, how (hōs | ὡς | conj) God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him. |
| Acts 10:47 | “Surely no one is able to withhold water so that these people cannot be baptized who received the Holy Spirit just as (hōs | ὡς | conj) we did, |
| Acts 11:5 | “I was in the city of Joppa, praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a great sheet being let down by its four corners from heaven, and it came close to me. |
| Acts 11:16 | And I remembered the word of the Lord, how (hōs | ὡς | conj) he said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ |
| Acts 11:17 | If then God gave the same gift to them as (hōs | ὡς | conj) he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to stand in God’s way?” |
| Acts 13:18 | And for about (hōs | ὡς | particle) forty years he put up with their ways in the wilderness. |
| Acts 13:20 | All this took about (hōs | ὡς | particle) four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. |
| Acts 13:25 | And as (hōs | ὡς | conj) John was completing his ministry, he said repeatedly, ‘What do you suppose me to be? I am not he. But behold, one is coming after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandals for his feet.’ |
| Acts 13:29 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) they had carried out everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. |
| Acts 13:33 | that God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising Jesus; as (hōs | ὡς | conj) also in the second Psalm it is written, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you.’ |
| Acts 14:5 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) there was an attempt by both Gentiles and Jews along with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them, |
| Acts 16:4 | As (hōs | ὡς | conj) they went through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. |
| Acts 16:10 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) Paul had seen the vision, immediately we tried to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. |
| Acts 16:15 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us. |
| Acts 17:13 | But when (hōs | ὡς | conj) the Jews from Thessalonica learned that also in Berea the word of God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there too, inciting and stirring up the crowds. |
| Acts 17:15 | Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as (hōs | ὡς | particle) soon as possible, they left. |
| Acts 17:22 | So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that (hōs | ὡς | particle) in every way you are a very devout people. |
| Acts 17:28 | ‘For in him we live and move about and exist,’ as (hōs | ὡς | conj) even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ |
| Acts 18:5 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was wholly absorbed with preaching the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. |
| Acts 19:9 | But when (hōs | ὡς | conj) some became stubborn and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and continued daily to discourse in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. |
| Acts 19:21 | Now after (hōs | ὡς | conj) all these things had taken place, Paul resolved in spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and on to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” |
| Acts 19:34 | But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single cry went up from them all as (hōs | ὡς | particle) they cried out for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” |
| Acts 20:14 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) he met us at Assos, we took him on board and continued on to Mitylene. |
| Acts 20:18 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day on which I set foot in Asia, |
| Acts 20:20 | how (hōs | ὡς | conj) I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly from house to house, |
| Acts 20:24 | But I make my life of no account as of any value to me, that (hōs | ὡς | conj) I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God. |
| Acts 21:1 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) we had parted from them, we put out to sea and sailed on a straight course to Cos, then on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. |
| Acts 21:12 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) we heard this, both we and the local people urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. |
| Acts 21:27 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, |
| Acts 22:5 | as (hōs | ὡς | conj) also the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I went toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished. |
| Acts 22:11 | Since (hōs | ὡς | conj) I could not see due to the brilliance of that light, being led by the hand by those who were with me, I went to Damascus. |
| Acts 22:25 | But when (hōs | ὡς | conj) they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?” |
| Acts 23:11 | The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as (hōs | ὡς | conj) you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so must you also testify in Rome.” |
| Acts 23:15 | So now you and the council give notice to the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though you were going to examine his case more accurately; and we will be ready to kill him before he gets there.” |
| Acts 23:20 | And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the council, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though the case against him was going to be examined more closely. |
| Acts 25:10 | Paul answered, “I am now standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. Against the Jews I have done nothing wrong, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) you yourself know very well. |
| Acts 25:14 | Since (hōs | ὡς | conj) they were staying there several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man left by Felix, a prisoner. |
| Acts 27:1 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort. |
| Acts 27:27 | And when (hōs | ὡς | conj) it was the fourteenth night, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. |
| Acts 27:30 | But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the dinghy into the sea pretending they intended to let down anchors from the bow, |
| Acts 28:4 | When (hōs | ὡς | conj) the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “Certainly this man is a murderer, and though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.” |
| Acts 28:19 | But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, but not as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though I had some charge to bring against my own people. |
| Romans 1:9 | For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how (hōs | ὡς | conj) unceasingly I make mention of you |
| Romans 1:21 | Even though they knew God, they did not honor him as (hōs | ὡς | particle) God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish hearts were darkened. |
| Romans 3:7 | But if by my lie God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a sinner? |
| Romans 4:17 | As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” He is our father, in the presence of God in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into (hōs | ὡς | particle) being the things that do not exist. |
| Romans 5:15 | But the free gift is not like (hōs | ὡς | conj) the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one, much more did the grace of God and the gift that came by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflow to the many. |
Mnemonics
Like a hose.
Like a hose.