kathōsper

Strong’sG2509

even as

stem kathōsper-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.

* καθώσπερ (Tr. καθώς περ),

adv. (v.s. καθώς),

even as: II Co 3:8 (WH, mg.), He 5:4.†

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

Strong’s G2509 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkath-ap'-er

exactly as

Fromfrom G2505 and G4007;

King James(even, as well) as.

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: κᾰθά [θᾰ],
adverb for καθ᾽ ἅ, according as, just as, LXX+4th c.BC+; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) 'regular' pulse (a military metaphor), Refs 2nd c.AD+
II also καθάπερ, Ionic dialect κατάπερ, Refs 5th c.BC+: frequently in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης Refs 4th c.BC+, etc.: with a participle, like{ὡς},{ἅτε}, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—strengthened, καθάπερ εἰ (Ionic dialect κατάπερ εἰ, Refs 5th c.BC+, like as if, exactly as, Refs 5th c.BC+; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) Refs 4th c.BC+; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ Refs 5th c.BC+ —μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, Refs 3rd c.AD+

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.

just 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

kathōsper1×

Hebrews 5:4… timan, alla kalorōntos hupo tou theou, kathōsper kai Aarōn.… he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.