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,

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.

His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like (hōs | ὡς | particle) the roar of many waters.

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.

I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a trumpet,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.