interrogative or indefinite pronoun
hēlikos
Strong’sG2245
of what size, how much
stem hēlik-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἡλίκος, -η, -ον,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2245 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhay-lee'-kos
as big as, i.e. (interjectively) how much
Fromfrom ἧλιξ (a comrade, i.e. one of the same age);
King Jameshow (what) great.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
as big as, πόσος τις; μικρός, ἡλίκος Μόλων Refs 5th c.BC+; τί τοσοῦτον ὕβρισεν, ἡλίκον..; Refs 4th c.BC+
2 of age, as old as, ἄνδρα.. ἡλίκον Θουκυδίδην Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῖσιν ἡλίκοισι νῷν, ={τηλίκοις ἡλίκοι νώ}, Refs; οἱ ἡλίκοι ἐγώ,= τηλίκοι ἡλίκοι ἐγώ, Refs 5th c.BC+ of what various ages.. , Refs 5th c.BC+
3 in indirect questions, how big, how great, Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently in expressions of wonder, θαυμάσι᾽ ἡλίκα extraordinarily great, Refs 4th c.BC+; also, how small, ἰδοὺ ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει NT+4th c.BC+
4 in exclamations, ἡλίκον λαλεῖς Refs 4th c.BC+. (Compd. of yo-, relative pronoun stem (compare ὅς), and -āli- (compare ἧλιξ), with suffix -κο-; compare πηλίκος, τηλίκος.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hēlikos | hēlikas | hēlikem1×ἡλίκον | hēlikois | hēlikais | hēlikeim |
| object accusative | hēlikon1×ἡλίκον | hēlikan1×ἡλίκην | hēlikoin | hēlikain | ||
| direct address vocative | hēlikor | hēlikar | hēlikoir | hēlikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hēlikou | hēlikau | hēlikeu | hēlikoiu | hēlikaiu | hēlikeiu |
| to, for dative | hēliko | hēlika | hēlike | hēlikoi | hēlikai | hēlikei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hēlik is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hēlikon“how great”objectaccusative singular1×
Colossians 2:1“how great”Thelamō gar vin oidarē hēlikon agōnon echamō huper vu kai toiu …For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met …
hēlikan“how great”objectaccusative singular1×
James 3:5“how great”… kai megeim auchatō. Idou hēlikem purem hēlikan hulan anaptatō;… but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
hēlikem“small”subject or objectdirect singular1×
James 3:5… melem atō kai megeim auchatō. Idou hēlikem purem hēlikan hulan anaptatō;… boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest …