hōsperei

Strong’sG5619

just as if, as it were

stem hōsperei-once in the New Testamentnever 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.

* ὡσ-περ-εί

adv.,

as, as it were: I Co 15:8.†

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

Strong’s G5619 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhoce-per-i'

just as if, i.e. as it were

Fromfrom G5618 and G1487;

King Jamesas.

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

ὡσπερεί
or ὥσπερ εἰ, adverb just as if, with indicative, ὥσπερ εἰ παρεστάτεις Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ὡσπερεὶ φάναι to say 'as it were', Refs 3rd c.AD+; ὅμοια ὥ. εἰ.. Refs 5th c.BC+: with Nouns or parts., as it were, ὡ. ψῆτταν Refs 5th c.BC+
II ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ or ὡσπερανεί (properly elliptical for ὥσπερ ἂν ἦν, εἰ.., or the like), Refs 5th c.BC+; Doric dialect ὥσπερ αἰκ ἐξ ἑνὸς κελεύματος κεχάναντι they gape as it were 'by numbers' Refs 5th c.BC+; ὥσπερ οὖν ἂν εἰ with imperfect, 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.

as1×

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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hōsperei1×

1 Corinthians 15:8eschatem de panteiu hōsperei te ektrōme horita kami.… all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.