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5616 - hósei

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Strong's Concordance

Original word: ὡσεί
Transliteration: hósei
Definition (short): about
Definition (full): as if, as it were, like

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: adverb from hós and ei
Definition: as if, as it were, like
NASB Translation: about (10), about* (1), like (3), much like (1), some (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From hos and ei; as if -- about, as (it had been, it were), like (as).

see GREEK hos

see GREEK ei

References

Strong's 5616: 16 Occurrences
KJV: But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
NASB: Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.
KJV: And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
NASB: There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.
KJV: And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
NASB: After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"
KJV: And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
NASB: When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,
KJV: For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
NASB: (For there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, "Have them sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each."