Lexicon katho: according as Original Word: καθόPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: katho Phonetic Spelling: (kath-o') Short Definition: as, according as Definition: according to which thing, as, according as. HELPS word-Studies 2526 kathó (an adverb, derived from 2596 /katá, "according to" and 3739 /hós, "which") – properly, according to which, "in so far as" (J. Thayer); inasmuch, according to, according to what. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kata and hos,Definitionaccording as NASB Translationaccording (2), degree (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2526: καθόκαθό (i. e. καθ' ὁ), adverb (from Lysias, and Plato down), according to what, i. e.: 1. as: Romans 8:26. 2. according as; in so far as, so far forth as: 1 Peter 4:13 (Rec.elz καθώς); 2 Corinthians 8:12 (Winers Grammar, 307 (288); cf. Buttmann, § 139, 30). STRONGS NT 2526: καθολικόςκαθολικός, καθολικη, καθολικον (καθόλου, which see), general, universal (occasionally in secular authors from (Aristotle, and) Polybius down, as καθολικη καί κοινῇ ἱστορία, Polybius 8, 4, 11; often in ecclesiastical writings; the title ἡ καθολικη ἐκκλησία first in Ignatius ad Smyrn. c. 8 [ET] and often in Polycarp, Martyr. (see edition (Gebh. Harn.) Zahn, p. 133 note); cf. καθολικη ἀνάστασις (Justin contra Trypho, 81 under the end); Theophilus ad Autol. (l. i. § 13), p. 40, Otto edition); ἐπιστολαί καθολικαι, or simply καθολικαι, in the title of the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude (R G L; cf. τῶν ἑπτά λεγομένων καθολικων SC. ἐπιστολῶν, Eus. h. e. 2, 23, 25), most probably because they seemed to be written not to any one church alone, but to all the churches. (Cf. Dict. of Chris. Antiq. under the word Catholic.)
Strong's to the degree that, inasmuch as. From kata and hos; according to which thing, i.e. Precisely as, in proportion as -- according to that, (inasmuch) as. see GREEK kata see GREEK hos |
