Greek preposition · G5616
ὡσεί
hoseiho-si'
like/as/about
21 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hōseí
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5616is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5616
as if
The King James renders it: about, as (it had been, it were), like (as).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hosei is rendered "like/as/about". It stands 21 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:16As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
The first use
As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
Matthew 3:16ὡσεὶ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- about10
- as5
- like3
- as if2
- of about1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὡσεὶ21
The grammar of each form
- preposition21PREP
Matthew
three uses
As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as
About five thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
Mark
one use
After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as if
Luke
nine uses
Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: of about
About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: like
About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with Him, for he too is a Galilean.”
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: like
Acts
six uses
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as
Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as
One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as if
There were about twelve men in all.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: about
Romans
one use
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: as
Hebrews
one use
You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”
- ὡσεὶhoseiprepositiontagged: like
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.