ὡσαύτως
likewise
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 G5615 appears — 17 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
Matthew 4 verses
- Matthew 20:5 ὡσαύτως adv Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
- Matthew 21:30 ὡσαύτως adv He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.
- Matthew 21:36 ὡσαύτως adv Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
- Matthew 25:17 ὡσαύτως adv In like manner he also who got the two gained another two.
Mark 2 verses
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 13:5 ὡσαύτως adv I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."
- Luke 20:31 ὡσαύτως adv The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.
- Luke 22:20 ὡσαύτως adv Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Timothy 4 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:9 ὡσαύτως adv In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
- 1 Timothy 3:8 ὡσαύτως adv Deacons, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
- 1 Timothy 3:11 ὡσαύτως adv Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
- 1 Timothy 5:25 ὡσαύτως adv In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can't be hidden.
Titus 2 verses
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.
“likewise” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ωσαυτως (hōsaútōs). Where the King James Version says “likewise,” newer translations reach for “same way” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 17 verses across 7 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Matthew 20:5, it enters the text early. Related forms include ως, ωσει and ωσπερ. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5615 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 →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #697
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 697 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
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 17 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 53%
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 47%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 18%
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: Likewise 13×, Like manner 2×
- American Standard Version: Like 6×, Likewise 6×, Like manner 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Same way 7×, Likewise 5×, Same thing 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Likewise 12×, Same way 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5615 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G5615 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5615 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5615 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- in like manner, likewise
Word origin
Derived from ως (hōs) (G5613) — as.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5615 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὡσαύτως hōsaútōs | Adverb | Matthew 20:5 | 16 |
| Ὡσαύτως Hōsaútōs | Adverb | Romans 8:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5615, 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
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ωσαυτως appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 10 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 7:11 ὡσαύτως
- Leviticus 24:19 ὡσαύτως
- Deuteronomy 12:22 ὡσαύτως
- Joshua 6:8 ὡσαύτως
- Judges 8:8 ὡσαύτως
- 1 Chronicles 28:16 ὡσαύτως
- Esther 9:13 ὡσαύτως
- Proverbs 20:4 ὡσαύτως
- Isaiah 10:15 ὡσαύτως
- Ezekiel 40:16 ὡσαύτως
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5615) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 7:11 ὡσαύτως Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments.
- Exodus 7:22 ὡσαύτως The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
- Exodus 8:3 ὡσαύτως and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading-troughs:
- Exodus 8:14 ὡσαύτως They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- Exodus 30:32 ὡσαύτως It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.
- Exodus 30:33 ὡσαύτως Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"
- Exodus 30:38 ὡσαύτως Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."
- Leviticus 24:19 ὡσαύτως If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
- Deuteronomy 12:22 ὡσαύτως Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
- Deuteronomy 15:17 ὡσαύτως then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 15:22 ὡσαύτως You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
- Joshua 6:8 ὡσαύτως It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.
- Joshua 11:15 ὡσαύτως As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Joshua 14:11 ὡσαύτως As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
- Judges 8:8 ὡσαύτως He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
- 1 Chronicles 28:16 ὡσαύτως and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
- Esther 9:13 ὡσαύτως Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows.
- Proverbs 20:4 ὡσαύτως The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Proverbs 27:15 ὡσαύτως A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike:
- Proverbs 27:20 ὡσαύτως Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied.
- Isaiah 10:15 ὡσαύτως Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.
- Isaiah 43:8 ὡσαύτως Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
- Ezekiel 40:16 ὡσαύτως There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 42:5 ὡσαύτως Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5615) 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.
