Bill Mounce

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ὅλως

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ὅλως
Greek transliteration: 
holōs
Simplified transliteration: 
holos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
3654
GK Number: 
3914
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
4
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
adverb
Gloss: 
completely, (not) at all; actually
Definition: 
wholly, altogether; actually, really, 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:7; 15:29; with a negative, at all, Mt. 5:34*

Greek-English Concordance for ὅλως

Matthew 5:34 But I say to you, do not take an oath at all (holōs | ὅλως | adverb); neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually (holōs | ὅλως | adverb) reported that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is not tolerated even among Gentiles, for a man is living in sin with his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 6:7 Already it is altogether (holōs | ὅλως | adverb) a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
1 Corinthians 15:29 Otherwise, what will they accomplish, those who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not actually (holōs | ὅλως | adverb) raised, why then are they being baptized for them?