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Greekὅλως (holōs)
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holōs

Strong’sG3654

wholly, altogether, not at all

stem holō-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form

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.

ὅλως,

adv.

(< ὅλος),

altogether, assuredly, actually (c. neg., at all): Mt 5:34, I Co 5:1 6:7 15:29.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3654 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhol'-oce

completely, i.e. altogether; (by analogy), everywhere; (negatively) not by any means

Fromadverb from G3650;

King Jamesat all, commonly, utterly.

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
Included with: ὅλος, η, ον,
Ionic dialect οὖλος, η, ον, as in Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare ἡμι-ολίας Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅλως uncertain in Refs 6th c.BC+:—whole, entire, complete in all its parts, of persons and things, ἄρτος οὖλος a whole loaf, Refs 8th c.BC+; μηνὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὔλῳ in a whole month, Refs; οὖλος ὁρᾷ, οὖλος δὲ νοεῖ, οὖλος δέ τ᾽ ἀκούει (i.e. ὁ θεός) Refs 6th c.BC+; ὅλος ἑσπέρας ὀφθαλμός, i.e. the full moon, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ ὅ. χρόνοςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ ὤμοις ὅλην πόλιν φέρων a whole city, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόλεις ὅλαι whole, entire cities, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅλη ἡ πόλις, the city as a whole, Refs; ὅλους ποιητὰς ἐκμανθάνειν learn whole poets by heart, Refs substantive, τῆς ἡμέρας ὅλης in the course of the whole day, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅλην τὴν νύκτα or τὴν νύκτα ὅλην, Refs 5th c.BC+: less frequently between Article and substantive, τὸν ὅ. ἀμφὶ χρόνον Refs 5th c.BC+
2 whole, i. e. safe and sound, ὑγιὴς καὶ ὅ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 entire, utter, ὅ. ἁμάρτημα an utter blunder, Refs 5th c.BC+; πλάσμα ὅ. ἐστὶν ἡ διαθήκη utter fiction, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 neuter as adverb, ὅλον or τὸ ὅ. wholly, entirely, διαφέρει ὅ. τε καὶ πᾶν Refs 5th c.BC+ on the whole, generally, opposed to ἀπολαβὼν μέρος τι, Refs; δι᾽ ὅλου, καθ᾽ ὅλου (see. διόλου, καθόλου); αἱ κράσεις δι᾽ ὅλων Refs 1st c.AD+generally speaking, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ δ᾽ ὅ. and in general, in short, Refs 2nd c.BC+; οὐδὲ Φιλόξενον ὅλ᾽ ἐξ ὅλων εὗρον I have entirely failed to find P., Refs 3rd c.AD+
5 ={πᾶς}, all, ὅλων στρατηγός Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅλη πόλις every city, LXX; πρὸ τῶν ὅ. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ before all things, Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἀσπάζομαι.. πάντας τοὺς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ὅ. κατ᾽ ὄνομα Refs 4th c.AD+
II as substantive, τὸ ὅ. the universe, Refs 5th c.BC+; differing from τὸ πᾶν, as implying a definite order, Refs 5th c.BC+ {ὁλοσηρικοπράτης} (but as not including void, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 τὰ ὅ. one's all, τὰ ὅ. πεπρακέναι Refs 4th c.BC+; τοῖς ὅ. ἡττᾶσθαι lose one's all, be utterly ruined, Refs 2nd c.BC+; τοῖς ὅ., ={ὅλως}, altogether, Philipp. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+: with negative, not at all, Refs 1st c.BC+.; τοῖς ὅ. ἠφάνισαν utterly destroyed it, Refs 1st c.AD+.; κινδυνεύει τῷ ὅ. ἐξαρθῆναι there is a risk of its being entirely carried away, Refs 1st c.AD+
III adverb ὅλως (Doric dialect οὔλως Refs 5th c.AD+ wholly, altogether, ὅ. σοφόν Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅ. ψεύδεται he speaks utter falsehood, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 on the whole, speaking generally, in short, ὅ. δ᾽ οὐδεὶς ἔστιν ὅντιν᾽ οὐ πεφενάκικ᾽ ἐκεῖνος Refs 5th c.BC+; τί οὖν κωλύει πάντα ἀφῃρῆσθαι καὶ ὅ. τὴν πολιτεία; Refs 4th c.BC+
III.3 frequently with a negative (first in Refs 6th c.BC+ not at all, ὅ. μὴ διαλέγεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+
III.4 actually, really, καλῶς ποιήσεις ἐλθοῦσα.. πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἵνα ὅ. ἴδωμέν σε Refs 3rd c.AD+; so perhaps in NT+5th c.BC+ *sólwos, cf. Sanskrit sárvas 'whole', and perhaps Latin salus, salvus.)

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.

at all2×actually1×completely1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

holōs3×

Matthew 5:34mis de legamō vi mē omnuara holōs; mēte en to ourano, hoti thronos …… I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is …

1 Corinthians 6:7“completely”ēdē men oun holōs hēttēmem vi atō hoti krimeim echavō …… that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not …

1 Corinthians 15:29… tois baptizorōntois huper toiu nekroiu? ei holōs nekrois ouk egerolō, tinem kai baptizolō …… If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

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1 Corinthians 5:1Holōs akouotō en vi porneias, kai toioutas …It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality …