ὥσπερ
even 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 G5618 appears — 36 distinct verses across 12 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 10 verses
- Matthew 6:2 ὥσπερ adv Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.
- Matthew 6:7 ὥσπερ adv In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
- Matthew 12:40 ὥσπερ adv For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 13:40 ὥσπερ adv As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
- Matthew 18:17 ὥσπερ adv If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
- Matthew 20:28 ὥσπερ adv even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
- Matthew 24:27 ὥσπερ adv For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matthew 24:37 ὥσπερ adv "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matthew 25:14 Ὥσπερ adv "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
- Matthew 25:32 ὥσπερ adv Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 17:24 ὥσπερ adv for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.
- Luke 18:11 ὥσπερ adv The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
John 2 verses
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 2:2 ὥσπερ adv Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
- Acts 3:17 ὥσπερ adv "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
- Acts 11:15 ὥσπερ adv As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
Romans 6 verses
- Romans 5:12 ὥσπερ adv Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- Romans 5:19 ὥσπερ adv For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
- Romans 5:21 ὥσπερ adv that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:4 ὥσπερ adv We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
- Romans 6:19 ὥσπερ adv I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
- Romans 11:30 ὥσπερ adv For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
1 Corinthians 5 verses
- 1 Corinthians 8:5 ὥσπερ adv For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 ὥσπερ 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 11:12 ὥσπερ adv For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:22 ὥσπερ adv For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 16:1 ὥσπερ adv Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 4:10 ὥσπερ adv For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- Hebrews 7:27 ὥσπερ adv who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
- Hebrews 9:25 ὥσπερ adv nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
James 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
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.
ωσπερ (hṓsper) is a Greek verb most often rendered “even as.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “as” in the King James Version, “just as” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 36 verses across 12 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 28% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 6:2. 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 G5618 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 →
- 36
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 36 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #406
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 406 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 36 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 10 verses 28%
- Romans 6 verses 17%
- 1 Corinthians 5 verses 14%
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 36 distinct verses.
- Gospels 14 verses · 39%
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 39%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 14%
- Johannine 3 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 3%
- Revelation 1 verse · 3%
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 39×
- American Standard Version: As 37×
- Berean Standard Bible: As 14×, Just as 14×, Like 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Just as 21×, As 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5618 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G5618 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G5618 across 34 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 G5618 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
- just as, even as
Word origin
Derived from ως (hōs) (G5613) — as.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5618 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὥσπερ hṓsper | Adverb | Matthew 6:2 | 35 |
| Ὥσπερ Hṓsper | Adverb | Matthew 25:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5618, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ωσπερ appears 221 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 189 verses in 18 books.
- 221
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 189
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 37:9 ὥσπερ
- Exodus 12:48 ὥσπερ
- Leviticus 4:26 ὥσπερ
- Numbers 17:5 ὥσπερ
- Deuteronomy 2:10 ὥσπερ
- Joshua 1:5 ὥσπερ
- 1 Samuel 21:10 ὥσπερ
- 2 Samuel 14:14 ὥσπερ
- Job 2:10 ὥσπερ
- Proverbs 1:12 ὥσπερ
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 ὥσπερ
- Isaiah 14:10 ὥσπερ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5618) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 189. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 37:9 ὥσπερ He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
- Genesis 38:11 ὥσπερ Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
- Genesis 41:2 ὥσπερ Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.
- Genesis 41:18 ὥσπερ and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
- Genesis 41:22 ὥσπερ I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
- Exodus 12:48 ὥσπερ When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
- Exodus 21:7 ὥσπερ "If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
- Exodus 24:10 ὥσπερ They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- Leviticus 4:26 ὥσπερ All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 6:10 ὥσπερ The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
- Leviticus 7:7 ὥσπερ "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Leviticus 14:13 ὥσπερ He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 14:35 ὥσπερ then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
- Leviticus 27:21 ὥσπερ but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.
- Numbers 17:5 ὥσπερ It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Deuteronomy 2:10 ὥσπερ (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
- Deuteronomy 2:11 ὥσπερ these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- Deuteronomy 2:21 ὥσπερ a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
- Deuteronomy 2:22 ὥσπερ as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
- Deuteronomy 3:2 ὥσπερ Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
- Deuteronomy 3:6 ὥσπερ We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
- Deuteronomy 3:20 ὥσπερ until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
- Deuteronomy 5:14 ὥσπερ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.
- Deuteronomy 6:24 ὥσπερ Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 7:26 ὥσπερ You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 ὥσπερ At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 11:10 ὥσπερ For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 18:7 ὥσπερ then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 18:18 ὥσπερ I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Deuteronomy 20:8 ὥσπερ The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 ὥσπερ The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
- Deuteronomy 33:26 ὥσπερ There is none like God, Jeshurun, Who rides on the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
- Joshua 1:5 ὥσπερ There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you.
- Joshua 1:15 ὥσπερ until Yahweh have given your brothers rest, as [he has given] you, and they also have possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 4:14 ὥσπερ On that day Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
- Joshua 7:5 ὥσπερ The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
- Joshua 11:4 ὥσπερ They went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
- 1 Samuel 21:10 ὥσπερ David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 ὥσπερ For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
- 2 Samuel 23:6 ὥσπερ But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they can't be taken with the hand
- 2 Samuel 24:3 ὥσπερ Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?
- Job 2:10 ὥσπερ But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Job 3:16 ὥσπερ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
- Job 3:21 ὥσπερ Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
- Job 5:25 ὥσπερ You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
- Job 5:26 ὥσπερ You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 6:7 ὥσπερ My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
- Job 6:15 ὥσπερ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
- Job 6:16 ὥσπερ Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself:
- Job 7:1 ὥσπερ "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5618) 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.
