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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

  • ἐὰν δὲ ἀνανεύων ἀνανεύσῃ καὶ μὴ βούληται ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆσ δοῦναι αὐτὴν αὐτῷ γυναῖκα, ἀργύριον ἀποτίσει τῷ πατρὶ καθ̓ ὅσον ἐστὶν ἡ φερνὴ τῶν παρθένων. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 22:17)
  • καὶ ὅσον ἐὰν ἅψηται ὁ γονορρυήσ, καὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ οὐ νένιπται ὕδατι, πλυνεῖ τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ λούσεται τὸ σῶμα ὕδατι καὶ ἀκάθαρτοσ ἔσται ἕωσ ἑσπέρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 15:11)
  • πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ, μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃσ τὸν Λευίτην πάντα τὸν χρόνον, ὅσον ἂν ζῇσ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 12:19)
  • ἀνοίγων ἀνοίξεισ τὰσ χεῖράσ σου αὐτῷ καὶ δάνειον δανειεῖσ αὐτῷ ὅσον ἐπιδέεται, καθότι ἐνδεεῖται. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:8)
  • διδοὺσ δώσεισ αὐτῷ καὶ δάνειον δανειεῖσ αὐτῷ ὅσον ἐπιδέεται, καὶ οὐ λυπηθήσῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ σου διδόντοσ σου αὐτῷ, ὅτι διά τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο εὐλογήσει σε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ ἔργοισ καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν, οὗ ἂν ἐπιβάλῃσ τὴν χεῖρά σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:10)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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