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
| Colossians 3:23 | Whatever you do, do it heartily, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) for the Lord, not for men, |
| Colossians 4:4 | that I may make it known as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I should. |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:4 | but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to (hōs | ὡς | particle) please man, but God who tests our hearts. |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:7 | Although we could have made demands as (hōs | ὡς | particle) apostles of Christ, we were gentle among you, like (hōs | ὡς | conj) a mother tenderly nursing her own children. |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:10 | You are witnesses, and so is God, how (hōs | ὡς | conj) devout, upright, and blameless was our conduct toward you believers — |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:11 | how, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) you know, we treated each one of you as (hōs | ὡς | conj) a father would treat his own children. |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:2 | for you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thief by night. |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:4 | But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to take you by surprise like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thief; |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:6 | So then let us not fall asleep as (hōs | ὡς | conj) others do; rather let us stay awake and be sober. |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:2 | not to be quickly shaken out of your wits or disturbed, either by a prophecy or by a spoken word or by a letter purporting (hōs | ὡς | particle) to come from us, to the effect (hōs | ὡς | particle) that the day of the Lord is already here. |
| 2 Thessalonians 3:15 | Do not regard him as (hōs | ὡς | particle) an enemy, but admonish him as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a brother. |
| 1 Timothy 5:1 | Do not rebuke but encourage an older man as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a father, younger men as (hōs | ὡς | particle) brothers, |
| 1 Timothy 5:2 | older women as (hōs | ὡς | particle) mothers, younger women as (hōs | ὡς | particle) sisters with all purity. |
| 2 Timothy 1:3 | I continually thank God, whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clean conscience, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) unceasingly I remember you in my prayers night and day, |
| 2 Timothy 2:3 | Share in suffering as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a good soldier of Christ Jesus. |
| 2 Timothy 2:9 | because of which I am suffering evil even to the point of imprisonment as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a serious criminal, but the word of God is not bound. |
| 2 Timothy 2:17 | and their talk will spread like (hōs | ὡς | particle) gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, |
| 2 Timothy 3:9 | But they will not progress very far; for their folly will be very clear to all, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) also was the folly of those men. |
| Titus 1:5 | For this reason I left you in Crete, so that you might put right the remaining things and appoint elders in every town, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I directed you — |
| Titus 1:7 | For it is necessary for an overseer to be above reproach as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a steward of God, not arrogant, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain, |
| Philemon 1:9 | yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you — I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus — |
| Philemon 1:14 | but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your helpfulness might not be by compulsion but by your own free will. |
| Philemon 1:16 | no longer as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. |
| Philemon 1:17 | So then if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as (hōs | ὡς | conj) you would me. |
| Hebrews 1:11 | They will perish; but you continue. And all of them like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a garment will wear out, |
| Hebrews 1:12 | like a robe you will fold them up, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a garment they will also be changed. But you are the same, and your years will never end.” |
| Hebrews 3:2 | was faithful to the one who appointed him in all his house, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) Moses also was. |
| Hebrews 3:5 | Now Moses was faithful in all God’s household as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a servant, bearing witness to those things that would be spoken later, |
| Hebrews 3:6 | but Christ is faithful as (hōs | ὡς | particle) the Son, presiding over God’s household, and we are his household if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. |
| Hebrews 3:8 | do not harden your hearts as (hōs | ὡς | conj) you did in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness |
| Hebrews 3:11 | So (hōs | ὡς | conj) I swore in my anger, ‘They shall certainly not enter my rest.’ |
| Hebrews 3:15 | As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as (hōs | ὡς | conj) you did in the rebellion.” |
| Hebrews 4:3 | For we who have believed do enter that rest, just as God has said, “As (hōs | ὡς | conj) I swore in my anger, ‘They shall certainly not enter my rest,’” and yet his work has been completed since the foundation of the world |
| Hebrews 6:19 | We have this hope as (hōs | ὡς | particle) an anchor for life, both sure and steadfast — a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the veil, |
| Hebrews 7:9 | And it could be said (hōs | ὡς | conj) that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, |
| Hebrews 11:9 | By faith he migrated to the land he had been promised, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) to a foreign land, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise, |
| Hebrews 11:12 | And so it was that from this one man, and he was already impotent, there were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven in number and as innumerable as (hōs | ὡς | particle) the grains of sand along the shore of the sea |
| Hebrews 11:27 | By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king, for he endured as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though (hōs | ὡς | particle) seeing the one who is invisible. |
| Hebrews 11:29 | By faith they crossed the Red Sea as (hōs | ὡς | particle) if on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried, they were drowned. |
| Hebrews 12:5 | And have you forgotten the word of encouragement that speaks to you as (hōs | ὡς | particle) sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when corrected by him. |
| Hebrews 12:7 | Endure your trials as divine discipline. God is treating you as (hōs | ὡς | particle) sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline? |
| Hebrews 12:16 | that no one becomes immoral and profane like (hōs | ὡς | particle) Esau, who gave up his inheritance rights in return for a single meal. |
| Hebrews 12:27 | The phrase, “Yet once more,” declares the removal of what can be shaken — that is (hōs | ὡς | particle), created things — so that what cannot be shaken may remain. |
| Hebrews 13:3 | Continue to remember those in prison, as though (hōs | ὡς | particle) you were in prison with them, and those who are being mistreated, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though you yourself were suffering bodily. |
| Hebrews 13:17 | Continue to obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as (hōs | ὡς | particle) those who must give an account. Let them do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. |
| James 1:10 | and the wealthy brother in his humiliation, because like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a flower in the meadow he will pass away. |
| James 2:8 | If you really fulfill the royal law as set forth in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as (hōs | ὡς | conj) yourself,” you are doing well. |
| James 2:9 | But if you show favoritism, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as (hōs | ὡς | particle) transgressors. |
| James 2:12 | So speak and so act as (hōs | ὡς | particle) those who are to be judged by the law that brings freedom. |
| James 5:3 | Your gold and your silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like (hōs | ὡς | particle) fire. You have stored up treasure for the last days. |
Mnemonics
Like a hose.
Like a hose.