Lexical Summary hosos: how much, how many Original Word: ὅσοςTransliteration: hosos Phonetic Spelling: (hos'-os) Part of Speech: Correlative Pronoun Short Definition: how much, how many Meaning: how much, how many Strong's Concordance how great, how manyBy reduplication from hos; as (much, great, long, etc.) As -- all (that), as (long, many, much) (as), how great (many, much), (in-)asmuch as, so many as, that (ever), the more, those things, what (great, -soever), wheresoever, wherewithsoever, which, X while, who(-soever). see GREEK hos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3745: ὅσοςὅσος, ὅση, ὅσον (from Homer down), a relative adjective corresponding to the demon. τοσοῦτος either expressed or understood, Latinquantus,-a,-um; used a. of space (as great as): τό μῆκος αὐτῆς (Rec. adds τοσοῦτον ἐστιν) ὅσον καί (G T Tr WH omit καί) τό πλάτος, Revelation 21:16; of time (as long as): ἐφ' ὅσον χρόνον, for so long time as, so long as, Romans 7:1; 1 Corinthians 7:39; Galatians 4:1; also without a preposition, ὅσον χρόνον, Mark 2:19; neuter ἐφ' ὅσον, as long as, Matthew 9:15; 2 Peter 1:13 (Xenophon, Cyril 5, 3, 25); ἔτι μικρόν ὅσον ὅσον, yet a little how very, how very (Vulg.modicum (ali)quautulum), i. e. yet a very little while, Hebrews 10:37 (Isaiah 26:20; of a very little thing, Aristophanes vesp. 213; cf. Herm. ad Vig., p. 726 no. 93; Winers Grammar, 247 (231) note; Buttmann, § 150, 2). b. of abundance and multitude; how many, as many as; how much, as much as: neuter ὅσον, John 6:11; plural ὅσοι, as many (men) as, all who, Matthew 14:36; Mark in. 10; Acts 4:6, 34; Acts 13:48; Romans 2:12; Romans 6:8; Galatians 3:10, 27; Philippians 3:15; 1 Timothy 6:1; Revelation 2:24; ὅσαι ἐπαγγελίαι, 2 Corinthians 1:20; ὅσα ἱμάτια, Acts 9:39; neuter plural, absolutely (A. V. often whatsoever), Matthew 17:12; Mark 10:21; Luke 11:8; Luke 12:8; Romans 3:19; Romans 15:4; Jude 1:10; Revelation 1:2. πάντες ὅσοι (all as many as), Matthew 22:10 (here T WH πάντες οὕς); Luke 4:40; John 10:8; Acts 5:36f; neuter πάντα ὅσα (all things whatsoever, all that), Matthew 13:46; Matthew 18:25; Matthew 28:20; Mark 12:44; Luke 18:22; John 4:29 (T WH Tr marginal reading πάντα ἅ); John 4:39 (T WH Tr text πάντα ἅ); πολλά ὅσα, John 21:25 R G (Homer, Iliad 22, 380; Xenophon, Hell. 3, 4, 3). ὅσοι ... οὗτοι, Romans 8:14; ὅσα ... ταῦτα, Philippians 4:8; ὅσα ... ἐν τούτοις, Jude 1:10; ὅσοι ... αὐτοί, John 1:12; Galatians 6:16. ὅσοι ἄν or ἐάν, how many soever, as many soever as (cf. Winers Grammar, § 42, 3); followed by an indicative preterite (see ἄν, II. 1), Mark 6:56; by an indicative present Revelation 3:19; by a subjunctive aorist, Matthew 22:9; Mark 3:28; Mark 6:11; Luke 9:5 (Rec.); Acts 2:39 (here Lachmann οὕς ἄν); Revelation 13:15; ὅσα ἄν, Matthew 18:18; John 11:22; John 16:13 (R G); πάντα ὅσα ἄν, all things whatsoever: followed by subjunctive present Matthew 7:12; by subjunctive aorist, Matthew 21:22; Matthew 23:3; Acts 3:22. ὅσα in indirect discourse; how many things: Luke 9:10; Acts 9:16; Acts 15:12; 2 Timothy 1:18. c. of importance: ὅσα, how great things, i. e. how extraordinary, in indirect discourse, Mark 3:8 (L marginal reading ἅ); b. above); how great (i. e. bitter), κακά, Acts 9:13. d. of measure and degree, in comparative sentences, accusative neuter ὅσον ... μᾶλλον περισσότερον, the more ... so much the more a great deal (A. V.), Mark 7:36; καθ' ὅσον with a comparitive, by so much as with the comparitive Hebrews 3:3; καθ' ὅσον ... κατά τοσοῦτον (τοσοῦτο L T Tr WH), Hebrews 7:20, 22; καθ' ὅσον (inasmuch) as followed by οὕτως, Hebrews 9:27; τοσούτῳ with a comparitive followed by ὅσῳ with a comparitive, by so much ... as, Hebrews 1:4 (Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 40; Cyril 7, 5, 5f); without τοσούτῳ, Hebrews 8:6 (A. V. by how much); τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον, ὅσῳ (without μᾶλλον), Hebrews 10:25; ὅσα ... τοσοῦτον, how much ... so much, Revelation 18:7; ἐφ' ὅσον, for as much as, in so far as, without ἐπί τοσοῦτο, Matthew 25:40, 45; Romans 11:13. |