Vocabulary Form
ὡς
Definition
as, like, when, that, how, about
Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
504
GK
6055
Notes

"About" in the sense of "approximately."

Biblical Concordance

2 Peter 3:8 But do not let this one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that one day with the Lord is as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thousand years and a thousand years are as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a single day.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not late in fulfilling his promise, as (hōs | ὥς | conj) some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements will melt in the intense heat, and the earth and the works in it will be exposed.
2 Peter 3:16 as (hōs | ὡς | conj) he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters, in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) they do the other scriptures.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 2:27 But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you. But as (hōs | ὡς | conj) his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and not a lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.
2 John 1:5 And now I ask you, dear lady — not as though (hōs | ὡς | particle) I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning — that we love one another.
Jude 1:7 Likewise (hōs | ὡς | conj), Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, which indulged in sexual immorality in the same way as the angels and pursued unnatural desire, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:10 But these people blaspheme whatever they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct as (hōs | ὡς | particle) irrational beasts, by these they are being destroyed.
Revelation 1:10 I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a trumpet,
Revelation 1:14 His head and his hair were white, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) white wool, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) snow, and his eyes were like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a flame of fire.
Revelation 1:15 His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like (hōs | ὡς | particle) the roar of many waters.
Revelation 1:16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was shining like (hōs | ὡς | conj) the sun at full strength.
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though (hōs | ὡς | particle) dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Do not fear! I am the First and the Last,
Revelation 2:18 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The Son of God, who has eyes like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a flame of fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze, has this to say:
Revelation 2:24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not follow this teaching (who have not learned ‘the deep things of Satan,’ as (hōs | ὡς | conj) they call them), to you I say, I lay on you no other burden,
Revelation 2:27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) when earthen pots are broken to pieces,
Revelation 2:28 even as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I myself have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.
Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Revelation 3:21 As for the one who conquers, to him I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I also conquered and sat with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
Revelation 4:6 and before the throne there was as it were (hōs | ὡς | particle) a sea of glass, like crystal; and around the throne, close by the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.
Revelation 4:7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature had a face like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a man’s, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.
Revelation 5:6 And I saw standing there, between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, a Lamb that appeared (hōs | ὡς | particle) to have been killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
Revelation 6:1 Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like (hōs | ὡς | particle) thunder, “Come!”