Word Summary
hoios: what sort or manner of
Original Word: οἵοςTransliteration: hoios
Phonetic Spelling: (hoy'-os)
Part of Speech: Correlative Pronoun, Relative Pronoun
Short Definition: what sort or manner of
Meaning: what sort or manner of
Strong's Concordance
so as, such as, what manner of
Probably akin to ho, hos, and hosos; such or what sort of (as a correlation or exclamation); especially the neuter (adverbially) with negative, not so -- so (as), such as, what (manner of), which.
see GREEK hosos
see GREEK ho
see GREEK hos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3634: οἷοςοἷος,
οἷα,
οἷον (from
Homer down), relative pronoun (correlative to the demonstrative
τοῖος and
τοιοῦτος),
what sort of, what manner of, such as (Latin
qualis):
οἷος ...
τοιοῦτος,
1 Corinthians 15:48;
2 Corinthians 10:11;
τόν αὐτόν ...
οἷον,
Philippians 1:30; with the pronoun
τοιοῦτος suppressed,
Matthew 24:21;
Mark 9:3;
Mark 13:19 (here however the antecedent demonstrative is merely attracted into the relative clause or perhaps repeated for rhetorical emphasis, cf.
Buttmann, § 143, 8;
Winers Grammar, 148 (140); see
τοιοῦτος, b.);
2 Corinthians 12:20;
2 Timothy 3:11;
Revelation 16:18;
ὁιωδηποτουν νοσήματι, of what kind of disease soever,
John 5:4 Lachmann (cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 373f); in indirect question,
Luke 9:55 (
Rec.);
1 Thessalonians 1:5.
οὐχ οἷον δέ ὅτι ἐκπέπτωκεν, concisely for
οὐ τοιον ἐστιν οἷον ὅτι ἐκπέπτωκεν, "but the thing (state of the case) is not such as this, that the word of God hat fallen to the ground, i. e. the word of God hath by no means come to nought" (
A. V. but not as though the word of God hath etc.),
Romans 9:6; cf.
Winers Grammar, § 64 I. 6;
Buttmann, § 150, 1 Rem.
STRONGS NT 3634: οἱοσδηποτοῦνοἱοσδηποτοῦν, John 5:4 Lachmann, see οἷος.