ὡς
as
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 G5613 appears in the Book of Acts — 61 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.
Acts
- Acts 1:10 ὡς adv While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
- Acts 2:15 ὡς adv For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
- Acts 3:12 ὡς adv When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
- Acts 3:22 ὡς adv For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
- Acts 5:7 ὡς adv About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
- Acts 5:24 ὡς adv Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
- Acts 5:36 ὡς adv For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Acts 7:23 ὡς adv But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- Acts 7:37 ὡς adv This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.'
- Acts 7:51 ὡς adv "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Acts 8:32 ὡς ὡς adv adv Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.
- Acts 8:36 ὡς adv As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"
- Acts 9:18 ὡς adv Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
- Acts 9:23 Ὡς adv When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
- Acts 10:7 ὡς adv When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
- Acts 10:11 ὡς adv He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
- Acts 10:17 ὡς adv Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,
- Acts 10:25 ὡς adv When it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
- Acts 10:28 ὡς adv He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
- Acts 10:38 ὡς adv even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Acts 10:47 ὡς adv "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
- Acts 11:5 ὡς adv "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
- Acts 11:16 ὡς adv I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
- Acts 11:17 ὡς adv If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"
- Acts 13:18 ὡς adv For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
- Acts 13:20 ὡς adv After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
- Acts 13:25 ὡς adv As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
- Acts 13:29 ὡς adv When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
- Acts 13:33 ὡς adv that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'
- Acts 14:5 ὡς adv When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 16:4 Ὡς adv As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
- Acts 16:10 ὡς adv When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
- Acts 16:15 ὡς adv When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
- Acts 17:13 ὡς adv But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
- Acts 17:15 ὡς adv But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
- Acts 17:22 ὡς adv Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
- Acts 17:28 ὡς adv 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
- Acts 18:5 Ὡς adv But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
- Acts 19:9 ὡς adv But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
- Acts 19:21 Ὡς adv Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."
- Acts 19:34 ὡς adv But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
- Acts 20:14 ὡς adv When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
- Acts 20:18 ὡς adv When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
- Acts 20:20 ὡς adv how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
- Acts 20:24 ὡς adv But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.
- Acts 21:1 Ὡς adv When it happened that we had parted from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
- Acts 21:12 ὡς adv When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 21:27 Ὡς adv When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
- Acts 22:5 ὡς adv As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
- Acts 22:11 ὡς adv When I couldn't see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
- Acts 22:25 ὡς adv When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"
- Acts 23:11 ὡς adv The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."
- Acts 23:15 ὡς adv Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
- Acts 23:20 ὡς adv He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
- Acts 25:10 ὡς adv But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
- Acts 25:14 ὡς adv As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
- Acts 27:1 Ὡς adv When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
- Acts 27:27 Ὡς adv But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
- Acts 27:30 ὡς adv As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
- Acts 28:4 ὡς adv When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."
- Acts 28:19 ὡς adv But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
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.
ως (hōs) is a Greek verb most often rendered “as.” Debuting at Matthew 1:24, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 440 verses — common. Related forms include ος, ο εστι and οθεν. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5613 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 →
- 440
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 440 distinct verses.
- 26 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
- #39
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 39 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 440 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 61 verses 14%
- Revelation 56 verses 13%
- Luke 48 verses 11%
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 440 distinct verses.
- Gospels 134 verses · 30%
- Pauline corpus 130 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 109 verses · 25%
- Johannine 91 verses · 21%
- Revelation 56 verses · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 39 verses · 9%
- Hebrews 20 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 324×, When 41×, How 19×
- American Standard Version: As 291×, When 48×, How 19×
- Berean Standard Bible: As 161×, Like 120×, When 31×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: As 282×, Like 77×, When 42×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5613 across 488 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 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 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5613 across 473 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 37 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 G5613 across 438 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. 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 52 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5613 across 504 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 13 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 1 sense 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.
- as, like, even as, etc.
Word origin
Derived from ος (hós) (G3739) — who.
Probably adverb of compound from G3739 ; which how that is in that manner (very variously used as shown): - about after (that) (according) as (it had been it were) as soon (as) even as (like) for how (greatly) like (as unto) since so (that) that to wit unto when ([-soever]) while X with all speed.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5613 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὡς hōs | Adverb | Matthew 1:24 | 485 |
| Ὡς Hōs | Adverb | John 2:23 | 14 |
| ὥς hṓs | Adverb | 2 Corinthians 3:1 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5613, 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
- ο εστι hó esti G3603 which is
- οθεν hóthen G3606 from which
- οποιος hopoîos G3697 what sort
- οποτε hopóte G3698 when
- οπου hópou G3699 where
- οπως hópōs G3704 how
- οσακις hosákis G3740 as often as
- οσος hósos G3745 how much
- οσπερ hósper G3746 whomever
- οστις hóstis G3748 whoever
- οτε hóte G3753 when
- ου hoû G3757 where
- ποσος pósos G4214 how much
Derived from this word
- ωσαυτως hōsaútōs G5615 likewise
- ωσει hōseí G5616 as it were
- ωσπερ hṓsper G5618 even as
- ωστε hṓste G5620 so that
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 19 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ως appears 1,471 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,204 verses in 37 books.
- 1,471
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1,204
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 37 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:5 ὡς
- Exodus 1:19 ὡς
- Leviticus 5:10 ὡς
- Numbers 2:17 ὡς
- Deuteronomy 1:11 ὡς
- Joshua 2:5 ὡς
- Judges 2:4 ὡς
- Ruth 1:4 ὡς
- 1 Samuel 2:2 ὡς
- 2 Samuel 3:34 ὡς
- 1 Kings 1:21 ὡς
- 2 Kings 1:18 ὡς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5613) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,204. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:5 ὡς for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:22 ὡς Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 6:4 ὡς The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 9:3 ὡς Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Genesis 10:9 ὡς He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
- Genesis 10:23 ως The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- Genesis 12:12 ὡς It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
- Genesis 13:10 ὡς Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
- Genesis 13:16 ὡς I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
- Genesis 16:6 ὡς But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
- Genesis 18:23 ὡς Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:25 ὡς Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Genesis 18:33 ὡς Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- Genesis 19:31 ὡς The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
- Genesis 22:17 ὡς that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 26:4 ὡς I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Genesis 27:4 ὡς Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
- Genesis 27:9 ὡς Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
- Genesis 27:12 ὡς What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
- Genesis 27:23 ὡς He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
- Genesis 27:27 ὡς He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
- Genesis 27:30 ὡς It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 28:14 ὡς Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Genesis 28:17 ὡς He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
- Genesis 29:10 ὡς It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
- Genesis 29:13 ὡς It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
- Genesis 29:20 ὡς Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
- Genesis 30:25 ὡς It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
- Genesis 30:38 ὡς He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
- Genesis 31:2 ὡς Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
- Genesis 31:5 ὡς and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
- Genesis 31:15 ὡς Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
- Genesis 31:26 ὡς Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Genesis 32:13 ὡς He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
- Genesis 33:10 ὡς Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
- Genesis 34:7 ὡς The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Genesis 34:15 ὡς Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
- Genesis 34:16 ὡς then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
- Genesis 36:28 ως These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
- Genesis 38:29 ὡς It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
- Genesis 39:13 ὡς It happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
- Genesis 39:18 ὡς and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
- Genesis 39:19 ὡς It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 40:13 ὡς Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
- Genesis 42:30 ὡς "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
- Genesis 44:10 ὡς He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."
- Genesis 45:8 ὡς So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 48:5 ὡς Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
- Genesis 48:20 ὡς He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
- Genesis 49:4 ὡς Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your father's bed; Then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5613) 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.
