καθώς
according as
‘according as’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G2531 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 19 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 1:6 καθὼς adv even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
- 1 Corinthians 1:31 καθὼς adv that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
- 1 Corinthians 2:9 καθὼς adv But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, Which didn't enter into the heart of man, These God has prepared for those who love him."
- 1 Corinthians 4:17 καθὼς adv Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 καθώς adv Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- 1 Corinthians 8:2 καθὼς adv But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6 καθὼς adv Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 καθώς adv Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 καθώς adv Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9 καθώς adv Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- 1 Corinthians 10:33 καθὼς adv even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
- 1 Corinthians 11:1 καθὼς adv Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 11:2 καθὼς adv Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
- 1 Corinthians 12:11 καθὼς adv But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
- 1 Corinthians 12:18 καθὼς adv But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12 καθὼς adv For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
- 1 Corinthians 14:34 καθὼς adv let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
- 1 Corinthians 15:38 καθὼς adv But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
- 1 Corinthians 15:49 καθὼς adv As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
καθως (kathṓs) is a Greek verb most often rendered “according as.” Translators differ — “as” in the King James Version, then “just as” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 178 verses in 21 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 21:6. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2531 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 178
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 178 distinct verses.
- 21 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 21 of 27 New Testament books.
- #87
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 87 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 178 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 31 verses 17%
- 1 Corinthians 19 verses 11%
- Luke 17 verses 10%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 178 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 83 verses · 47%
- Gospels 59 verses · 33%
- Johannine 44 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 28 verses · 16%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 16 verses · 9%
- Hebrews 9 verses · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: As 167×, According as 5×, Even 2×
- American Standard Version: As 165×, According as 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: As 96×, Just as 42×, According to 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Just as 155×, As 20×, Is just as 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2531 across 183 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2531 across 183 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2531 across 172 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2531 across 183 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- according as
- since, seeing that, agreeably to the fact that
- when, after that
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2531 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καθὼς kathṑs | Adverb | Matthew 21:6 | 168 |
| καθώς kathṓs | Adverb | John 6:31 | 11 |
| Καθὼς Kathṑs | Adverb | 1 Timothy 1:3 | 1 |
| καθώσπερ kathṓsper | Adverb | Hebrews 5:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2531, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
- καταβραβευω katabrabeúō G2603 to defraud
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καθως appears 210 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 195 verses in 32 books.
- 210
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 195
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 32 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:21 καθώς
- Exodus 34:1 καθώς
- Numbers 8:22 καθώς
- Deuteronomy 2:29 καθώς
- Judges 1:7 καθώς
- Ruth 1:8 καθώς
- 1 Samuel 4:9 καθώς
- 2 Samuel 3:9 καθώς
- 1 Kings 1:30 καθώς
- 2 Kings 2:19 καθώς
- 1 Chronicles 14:16 καθώς
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 καθώς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2531) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 195. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 8:21 καθώς Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 18:5 καθώς I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
- Genesis 41:13 καθώς It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."
- Genesis 44:2 καθώς Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
- Exodus 34:1 καθώς Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Numbers 8:22 καθώς After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
- Numbers 21:34 καθώς Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
- Numbers 26:54 καθώς To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.
- Deuteronomy 2:29 καθώς as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
- Deuteronomy 4:38 καθώς to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 11:21 καθώς that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
- Deuteronomy 26:19 καθώς and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
- Judges 1:7 καθώς Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- Judges 1:20 καθώς They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
- Judges 2:15 καθώς Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed.
- Judges 5:27 καθώς At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
- Judges 6:5 καθώς For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
- Judges 6:36 καθώς Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
- Judges 6:37 καθώς behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
- Judges 7:17 καθώς He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do.
- Judges 8:2 καθώς He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
- Judges 8:33 καθώς It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
- Judges 13:23 καθώς But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
- Judges 16:22 καθώς However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
- Ruth 1:8 καθώς Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
- 1 Samuel 4:9 καθώς Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
- 1 Samuel 20:3 καθώς David swore moreover, and said, Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
- 1 Samuel 20:13 καθώς Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
- 1 Samuel 20:35 καθώς It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
- 1 Samuel 23:11 καθώς Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.
- 1 Samuel 24:14 καθώς After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
- 1 Samuel 24:20 καθώς Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
- 1 Samuel 25:26 καθώς Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
- 1 Samuel 26:20 καθώς Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
- 1 Samuel 26:24 καθώς Behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.
- 1 Samuel 28:17 καθώς Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
- 2 Samuel 3:9 καθώς God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;
- 2 Samuel 5:25 καθώς David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
- 2 Samuel 6:20 καθώς Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!
- 2 Samuel 7:10 καθώς I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,
- 2 Samuel 7:15 καθώς but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
- 2 Samuel 7:25 καθώς Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, and do as you have spoken.
- 2 Samuel 9:11 καθώς Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
- 2 Samuel 14:17 καθώς Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.
- 2 Samuel 14:20 καθώς to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
- 2 Samuel 17:10 καθώς Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
- 2 Samuel 19:4 καθώς The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!
- 1 Kings 1:30 καθώς most assuredly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day.
- 1 Kings 1:37 καθώς As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
- 1 Kings 2:24 καθώς Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2531) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
