ὡσεί hōsei

Greek word for “like/as/about” · Strong’s G5616 · used 21 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

ὡσεί; adv.; (a) as if.as it were, like as, like: 9:36, 6:15;

How it is translated

Glosses given for hōsei in context, with how often each is used:

• about 11
• as 5
• like 3
• if 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 22 (3), Luke 9 (2), Acts 2 (2), Matthew 3 (1), Matthew 9 (1), Matthew 14 (1), Mark 9 (1), Luke 3 (1), Luke 23 (1), Luke 24 (1)

Forms

• ὡσεὶ 21

Words used with it

Words that share verses with hōsei more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πεντακισχίλιοι pentakischilioi “five thousand” 2
• προσεύχομαι proseuchomai “to pray” 3
• ἔννατος ennatos “ninth (hour)” 2
• ὥρα hōra “hour” 3
• εἴδω eidō “to perceive” 4
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 4
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 3
• ἔτος etos “year” 2
• βαπτίζω baptizō “to baptize” 2
• ἀναβαίνω anabainō “to ascend” 2
• καταβαίνω katabainō “to come/go down” 2
• νεκρός nekros “dead” 2

Key verses

The verses using hōsei that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 3:16 — And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like…
• Matthew 9:36 — But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
• Luke 3:23 — And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
• Luke 9:28 — And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
• Luke 22:41 — And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
• Luke 22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Luke 23:44 — And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
• Acts 1:15 — And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
• Acts 2:3 — And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
• Acts 2:41 — Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
• Acts 10:3 — He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
• Romans 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.