adverb
homōs
Strong’sG3676
yet, nevertheless
stem homō-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
ὅμως,
adv.(< ὁμίς),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3676 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhom'-oce
at the same time, i.e. (conjunctionally) notwithstanding, yet still
Fromadverb from the base of G3674;
King Jamesand even, nevertheless, though but.
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
conjunction (from ὁμῶς, with changed accent), all the same, nevertheless, used to limit whole clauses, once in Refs 8th c.BC+ (unless it is read in Refs 8th c.BC+; κοὐκ ἐπίδηλος ὅ. and yet not so as to be observed, Refs 6th c.BC+ but still, but for all that, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅ. μήν (Doric dialect μάν) Refs 5th c.BC+
II frequently in apodosi after καὶ εἰ (κεἰ) or καὶ ἐάν (κἄν), κεἰ τὸ μηδὲν ἐξερῶ, φράσω δ᾽ ὅ. Refs 5th c.BC+; λέξον.., κεἰ στένεις ὅ., i.e. κεἰ στένεις, ὅ. λέξον, Refs 5th c.BC+: sometimes it even stands in the protasis, ἐρημία με, κεἰ δίκαι᾽ ὅ. λέγω, σμικρὸν τίθησι Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 the protasis is frequently replaced by a participle, ὕστεροι ἀπικόμενοι ἱμείροντο ὅ. Refs 5th c.BC+; κλῦθί μου νοσῶν ὅ. (i. e. εἰ νοσεῖς ὅ. κλῦθι) Refs 6th c.BC+
II.3 where the protasis does not contain a verb, ἀπάλαμόν περ ὅ. (variant{ὁμῶς}) ἐπὶ ἔργον ἐγείρει Refs 8th c.BC+
III used to break off a speech, however.., Refs 4th c.BC+; to refer to something previously said or to the general situation, after all, in spite of all, Refs 5th c.BC+
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
homōs3×
John 12:42homōs mentoi kai ek toiu archontoiu pollois …Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in …
1 Corinthians 14:7homōs teim apsucheim fōnan dōarōnteim, eite aulos …Even in the case of lifeless instruments …
Galatians 3:15“nevertheless”Adelfoir, kata anthrōpon legamō; homōs anthrōpou kurorēntan diathēkan oudenos athetatō ē …Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.