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ὅσος

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅσος ὅση ὅσον

Structure: ὁς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like Lat.

Sense

  1. (relative adjective) (often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας) as much as, how much
  2. (followed by particles) (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
  3. (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
  4. (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
  5. (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
  6. (adverbial usages) so far as, so much as
  7. (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
  8. (ἐν ὅσῳ) while

Declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἔδωκεν ὁ ἀρχιδεσμοφύλαξ τὸ δεσμωτήριον διὰ χειρὸσ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ ἀπηγμένουσ, ὅσοι ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ, καὶ πάντα ὅσα ποιοῦσιν ἐκεῖ, αὐτὸσ ἦν ποιῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 39:22)
  • καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ δώσουσιν ὅσοι ἂν παραπορεύωνται τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν. τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ διδράχμου, ὅ ἐστιν κατὰ τὸ δίδραχμον τὸ ἅγιον. εἴκοσιν ὀβολοὶ τὸ δίδραχμον, τὸ δὲ ἥμισυ τοῦ διδράχμου εἰσφορὰ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:13)
  • καὶ ἤνεγκαν οἱ ἄνδρεσ παρὰ τῶν γυναικῶν, πᾶσ ᾧ ἔδοξε τῇ διανοίᾳ, ἤνεγκαν σφραγῖδασ καὶ ἐνώτια καὶ δακτυλίουσ καὶ ἐμπλόκια καὶ περιδέξια, πᾶν σκεῦοσ χρυσοῦν, καὶ πάντεσ ὅσοι ἤνεγκαν ἀφαιρέματα χρυσίου Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 35:22)
  • καὶ παῖσ καὶ παιδίσκη, ὅσοι ἂν γένωνταί σοι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὅσοι κύκλῳ σού εἰσιν, ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν κτήσεσθε δοῦλον καὶ δούλην. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:44)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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