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How great?

ἡλίκοςStrong’s G2245

hēlikos

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hēlikos is the Greek word usually translated “how great” and “great”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;”
Colossians 2:1 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “how great” and “great”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • how great 2
  • a great 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Colossians 1
  • James 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἡλίκος hēlikos · how great?

ἡλίκος, -η, -ον 1. prop., as big as, as old as. 2. As indirect interrog., what sized, what, how great, how small (the sense to be determined by the context): Col.2:1, Jas.3:5, Gal.6:11 (WH, mg.; πηλ-, WH, txt., RV).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “great” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GREAT, adjective

[Latin crassus.]

  1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
  2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
  3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
  4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
All definitions and other forms of “great”
  1. Long continued; as a great while.
  2. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
  3. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
  4. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
  5. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
  6. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
  7. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
  8. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great
  9. Dignified in aspect, mien or manner.
  10. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded.
  11. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent.
  12. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
  13. Dignified; noble.
  14. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
  15. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road.
  16. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
  17. Hard; difficult.
  18. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
  19. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6
  20. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
  21. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.

GREAT, noun

The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great

  1. People of rank or distinction.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.