adverb
isōs
Strong’sG2481
perhaps
stem isō-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.
ἴσως
(< ἴσσς),
adv.,[in LXX for אוּלַי, אַךְ, הֵן, Ge 32:20, Je 5:4, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2481 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee'-soce
likely, i.e. perhaps
Fromadverb from G2470;
King Jamesit may be.
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
Laconian dialect ϝίὡρ (see. βίωρ), adverb of ἴσος, equally, in like manner, Refs 7th c.BC+; evenly, Refs 5th c.BC+
II equally, with reference to equality, τὸ ὀρθὸν ληπτέον ἴσως Refs 4th c.BC+; fairly, equitably, ἴ. καὶ κοινῶς Aen.Refs 4th c.BC+
III probably, perhaps, Refs 7th c.BC+ with optative is falsa lectio in Refs 5th c.BC+; ἴ. μέν.., ἴ. δέ.. perhaps so or so, Refs 5th c.BC+: used to soften or qualify a positive assertion, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV with numerals, about, 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
isōs1×
Luke 20:13… pempami ton huion mu ton agapēton; isōs houton entrapili.… I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’