Lexical Summary homōs: yet, but yet Original Word: ὅμωςTransliteration: homōs Phonetic Spelling: (hom'-oce) Part of Speech: Conjunction Short Definition: yet, but yet Meaning: yet, but yet Strong's Concordance and even, nevertheless, though but. Adverb from the base of homou; at the same time, i.e. (conjunctionally) notwithstanding, yet still -- and even, nevertheless, though but. see GREEK homou Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3676: ὅμωςὅμως (ὁμός), from Homer down, yet; it occurs twice in the N. T. out of its usual position (cf. Winers Grammar, § 61, 5f.; Buttmann, § 144, 23), viz. in 1 Corinthians 14:7, where resolve thus: τά ἄψυχα, καίπερ φωνήν διδόντα, ὅμως, ἐάν διαστολήν ... πῶς κτλ. instruments without life, although giving forth a sound, yet, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known etc., Fritzsche, Conject. spec. i., p. 52; cf. Meyer at the passage; (Winer's Grammar, 344 (323)); again, ὅμως ἀνθρώπου ... οὐδείς ἀθετεῖ for ἀνθρώπου κεκυρωμένην διαθήκην, καίπερ ἀνθρώπου οὖσαν, ὅμως οὐδείς κτλ., a man's established covenant, though it be but a man's, yet no one, etc. Galatians 3:15; ὅμως μέντοι, but yet, nevertheless, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 444 (413)), John 12:42. |
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