οἷος
ohios
such as
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word οἷος (G3634, ohios) is a relative pronoun that functions primarily to express similarity or equivalence. Its short definition, "such as," provides insight into its basic meaning. This indicates that whenever οἷος is used in the Bible, it serves to indicate a correspondence or likeness between two things. An examination of its occurrences (15 times) shows that οἷος is used across various contexts, including comparisons and examples. This suggests that the word is employed to facilitate understanding by establishing a connection between different ideas or situations. As a consequence, οἷος plays a significant role in making complex concepts more relatable and accessible to the reader.
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Occurrences in Scripture
15 total occurrences across the text
for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
Mark 9:3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
Mark 13:19For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
Luke 9:55But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.
Romans 9:6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
1 Corinthians 15:48As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:48As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
2 Corinthians 10:11Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
Philippians 1:30having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.
1 Thessalonians 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
2 Timothy 3:11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
2 Timothy 3:11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
Revelation 16:18There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not happened since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty.