Just as
καθάπερStrong’s G2509kathaper
Appears in 13 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kathaper is the Greek word usually translated “just as”, “even as” and “as”. It appears in 13 verses of the New Testament.
“Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,”
Meaning
Usually translated “just as”, “even as” and “as”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- just as 9
- even as 2
- as 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Corinthians 4
- 1 Thessalonians 4
- Romans 2
- 1 Corinthians 2
- Hebrews 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Romans 12:4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
- 1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
- 1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 1:14As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- 2 Corinthians 3:13And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
- 2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
Greek dictionary
καθάπερ kathaper · just as
καθάπερ (for καθ᾽ ἅπερ = καθά) adv., [in LXX for אֲשֶׁר, Gen.12:4, Exo.7:6, al. ;] just as, even as: Rom.3:4 4:6 9:13 10:15 11:8 12:4, 1Co.10:10 12:12, 2Co.1:14 3:13 3:18 8:11, 1Th.2:11 3:6 3:12 4:6, Heb.4:2.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “as” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AS, adverb
az. [Gr. But more probably the English word is contracted from als.]
- Literally, like; even; similar. 'Ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.' 'As far as we can see, ' that is, like far, equally far.
- It was formerly used where we now use that. obsolete
- It was formerly used where we now use that. obsolete
- While; during; at the same time. 'He trembled as he spoke.' But in most of its uses, it is resolvable into like, equal, even, or equally, in like manner.
All definitions and other forms of “as”
AS, noun
[Latin]
- A Roman weight of 12 ounces, answering to the libra or pound.
- A Roman coin, originally of a pound weight; but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and by the Papirian law, to half an ounce.
- An integer; a whole or single thing.
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.