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ὅλος

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ὅλος G3650

Pronunciation hólos

What does ὅλος (hólos) mean in the Bible?

ὅλος (hólos) is a Greek word meaning "all". ὅλος, -η, -ον, [in LXX chiefly for כֹּל ;] of persons and things, whole, entire, complete; __1.

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Meaning

all

Extended definition

Denotes completeness or totality of a whole unit, distinct from πᾶς which emphasizes all individual parts collectively.

of persons and things, whole, entire, complete;

1of indefinite ideas, with subst. anarth.: Luk.5:5, Act.11:26 28:30, Tit.1:11; ὅλον ἄνθρωπον (an entire man; see Field, Notes, 93), Jhn.7:23; ὅλη Ἰερουσαλήμ (= πᾶσα Ἰ, Mat.2:3; see Bl., §47, 9), Act.21:31.

2Definite, with art.;

apreceding subst.: Mat.4:23, 24 Luk.8:39, 1Co.12:17, al.;

bfollowing subst.: Mrk.1:33, Luk.9:25, Jhn.4:53, Act.21:30, al.; __(with) between art. and subst., where subst. is an abstract noun (Plat., al.).

3Attached to adj. or verb: Mat.13:33, Luk.13:21, Jhn.9:34, al.; adverbially, δι ̓ ὅλου (MM, xviii), Jhn.19:23.

Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith

Grammatical Forms

How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.

Nominative · Singular · Neuter Matt 1:22 · Matt 5:29 · Matt 5:30 · Matt 6:22 · Matt 6:23 · Matt 13:33 · Matt 26:56 · Matt 26:59 · Mark 14:55 · Mark 15:1 · Luke 11:34 · Luke 11:36 · Luke 13:21 · John 11:50 · 1 Cor 12:17 17×

Nominative · Singular · Feminine Mark 1:33 · John 4:53 · Acts 19:27 · Acts 21:30 · Acts 21:31 · 1 Cor 14:23 · Rev 6:12 · Rev 13:3 8×

Nominative · Singular · Masculine Matt 22:40 · John 9:34 · John 13:10 · 1 John 5:19 4×

Genitive · Singular · Feminine Mark 12:30 · Mark 12:33 · Luke 4:14 · Luke 5:5 · Luke 10:27 · Luke 23:5 · Acts 9:31 · Acts 9:42 · Acts 10:37 · Acts 13:49 · Rom 16:23 · Rev 3:10 · Rev 16:14 18×

Genitive · Singular · Masculine John 19:23 · 1 John 2:2 2×

Genitive · Singular · Neuter Acts 10:22 1×

Dative · Singular · Feminine Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:31 · Matt 22:37 · Matt 24:14 · Luke 1:65 · Luke 7:17 · Luke 10:27 · Acts 15:22 · 2 Cor 1:1 · 1 Thess 4:10 14×

Dative · Singular · Masculine Matt 26:13 · Acts 18:8 · Rom 1:8 · Heb 3:5 4×

Dative · Singular · Neuter Phil 1:13 1×

Accusative · Singular · Feminine Matt 4:24 · Matt 9:26 · Matt 14:35 · Matt 20:6 · Matt 27:27 · Mark 1:28 · Mark 1:39 · Mark 6:55 · Mark 15:16 · Mark 15:33 · Luke 8:39 · Luke 23:44 · Acts 5:11 · Acts 7:11 · Acts 11:28 · Acts 13:6 20×

Biblical Occurrences

Each occurrence shows the passage reference, the original language term as it appears in that context, its transliteration, and the contextual sense.

Biblical Witnesses

Luke 11:33-36 whole hólos Nominative · Singular · Neuter

The entire body filled with light, completeness of illumination

Luke 13:18-21 whole hólos Nominative · Singular · Neuter

Leaven permeating through entire batch of dough, complete penetration

Luke 9:21-27 whole hólos

The entire world or all humanity in relation to gaining or losing oneself

Appears In

Compound and idiomatic lexemes in which this word is a constituent. Follow a link to study the phrase and its other participating words.

Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

Mark 15 — The Crucified King: Condemnation, Mockery, Death, Confession, and Burial

A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) — public domain

Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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