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Words
ὡσεί G5616
- Home gloss
- as it were
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- as / like / as it were
- Note
- Matt 3:16 "as it were a dove"; Luke 22:44
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (4)
- 19:28 and he looked to the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and to the face of the land of the region around, and he saw; and look, a flame of the land was going up as it were the vapor of a furnace.
- 21:16 Now, having gone away, she sat over against him farther off, as it were a bow's throw; for she said, "By no means let me see the death of my little child." And she sat over against him from afar; but the little child, having shouted aloud, wept.
- 24:55 Now her brothers and the mother said, "Let the virgin remain with us days, as it were ten; and after these she shall go away."
- 25:25 Now the firstborn son went out ruddy, the whole of him as it were a hairy pelt; now he named his name Esau.