For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ὡς
Vocabulary form:
ὡς
Definition:
as (“like”)
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
504
GK:
6055
Notes:
"About" in the sense of "approximately."
Biblical Concordance
| 1 Peter 1:14 | As (hōs | ὡς | particle) children of obedience, do not be conformed to the desires you used to have in your time of ignorance |
| 1 Peter 1:19 | but by precious blood, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ. |
| 1 Peter 1:24 | For “All flesh is like (hōs | ὡς | particle) grass, and all its glory like (hōs | ὡς | particle) the flower of grass; the grass dries up and its flower falls; |
| 1 Peter 2:2 | like (hōs | ὡς | particle) newborn babes, crave the milk that is pure and spiritual, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, |
| 1 Peter 2:5 | you also, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. |
| 1 Peter 2:11 | Dear friends, I urge you as (hōs | ὡς | particle) foreigners and exiles to abstain from desires of the flesh, which wage war against your soul, |
| 1 Peter 2:12 | and maintain an honorable lifestyle among the Gentiles so that, with respect to the very things about which they slander you as (hōs | ὡς | particle) evildoers, they may, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation. |
| 1 Peter 2:13 | Submit to every human authority on account of the Lord, whether to the king as (hōs | ὡς | particle) supreme, |
| 1 Peter 2:14 | or to governors as (hōs | ὡς | particle) those sent by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good. |
| 1 Peter 2:16 | Live as (hōs | ὡς | particle) free people, not as (hōs | ὡς | particle) those using freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as (hōs | ὡς | particle) servants of God. |
| 1 Peter 2:25 | For you were like (hōs | ὡς | particle) sheep, going astray, but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls. |
| 1 Peter 3:6 | just as (hōs | ὡς | conj) Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him “my lord.” You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not fear any intimidation. |
| 1 Peter 3:7 | Husbands, in the same way, live with them with understanding, showing honor to the woman as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a weaker vessel, since (hōs | ὡς | particle) you are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. |
| 1 Peter 4:10 | Each one should serve others in respect to the gift he has received, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a good steward of the grace of God in its various forms: |
| 1 Peter 4:11 | if someone speaks, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) speaking the oracles of God; if someone serves, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) by the strength that God supplies — so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen. |
| 1 Peter 4:12 | Dear friends, do not be surprised that a trial by fire is taking place among you, as (hōs | ὡς | particle) though something strange were happening to you. |
| 1 Peter 4:15 | But none of you should suffer as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a murderer or a thief or a criminal or as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a meddler in the affairs of another; |
| 1 Peter 4:16 | but if someone suffers as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a Christian, he should not be disgraced, but should glorify God by this name. |
| 1 Peter 5:3 | Do not domineer over those entrusted to your charge, but be examples to the flock. |
| 1 Peter 5:8 | Be sober-minded! Be alert! Your adversary the devil prowls around like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. |
| 1 Peter 5:12 | By Silvanus, a faithful brother as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it. |
| 2 Peter 1:3 | His divine power has freely given to us everything we need for a life of godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and might, |
| 2 Peter 1:19 | Moreover, we hold the prophetic word to be reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it as (hōs | ὡς | particle) you would to a lamp shining in a gloomy place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. |
| 2 Peter 2:1 | But there were also false prophets among the people, just as (hōs | ὡς | conj) there will be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. |
| 2 Peter 2:12 | But these people, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) irrational animals, born creatures of instinct to be captured and destroyed, are ignorant of those whom they slander, and in their destruction will themselves also be destroyed, |
| 2 Peter 3:8 | But do not let this one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that one day with the Lord is as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thousand years and a thousand years are as (hōs | ὡς | particle) a single day. |
| 2 Peter 3:9 | The Lord is not late in fulfilling his promise, as (hōs | ὥς | conj) some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. |
| 2 Peter 3:10 | But the Day of the Lord will come like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements will melt in the intense heat, and the earth and the works in it will be exposed. |
| 2 Peter 3:16 | as (hōs | ὡς | conj) he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters, in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) they do the other scriptures. |
| 1 John 1:7 | But if we walk in the light, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. |
| 1 John 2:27 | But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you. But as (hōs | ὡς | conj) his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and not a lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him. |
| 2 John 1:5 | And now I ask you, dear lady — not as though (hōs | ὡς | particle) I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning — that we love one another. |
| Jude 1:7 | Likewise (hōs | ὡς | conj), Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, which indulged in sexual immorality in the same way as the angels and pursued unnatural desire, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. |
| Jude 1:10 | But these people blaspheme whatever they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct as (hōs | ὡς | particle) irrational beasts, by these they are being destroyed. |
| Revelation 1:10 | I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a trumpet, |
| Revelation 1:14 | His head and his hair were white, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) white wool, like (hōs | ὡς | particle) snow, and his eyes were like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a flame of fire. |
| Revelation 1:15 | His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like (hōs | ὡς | particle) the roar of many waters. |
| Revelation 1:16 | In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was shining like (hōs | ὡς | conj) the sun at full strength. |
| Revelation 1:17 | And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though (hōs | ὡς | particle) dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Do not fear! I am the First and the Last, |
| Revelation 2:18 | “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The Son of God, who has eyes like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a flame of fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze, has this to say: |
| Revelation 2:24 | But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not follow this teaching (who have not learned ‘the deep things of Satan,’ as (hōs | ὡς | conj) they call them), to you I say, I lay on you no other burden, |
| Revelation 2:27 | and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) when earthen pots are broken to pieces, |
| Revelation 2:28 | even as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I myself have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star. |
| Revelation 3:3 | Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. |
| Revelation 3:21 | As for the one who conquers, to him I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, as (hōs | ὡς | conj) I also conquered and sat with my Father on his throne. |
| Revelation 4:1 | After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” |
| Revelation 4:6 | and before the throne there was as it were (hōs | ὡς | particle) a sea of glass, like crystal; and around the throne, close by the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. |
| Revelation 4:7 | The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature had a face like (hōs | ὡς | particle) a man’s, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. |
| Revelation 5:6 | And I saw standing there, between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, a Lamb that appeared (hōs | ὡς | particle) to have been killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. |
| Revelation 6:1 | Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like (hōs | ὡς | particle) thunder, “Come!” |
Mnemonics
Mnemonic
I use the hose as I like when the flowers are about to die.