Strong G2470ἴσος
equal
- Transliteration
- isos
- Pronunciation
- ee'-sos
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Probably from G1492 (through the idea of seeming);
similar (in amount or kind): - + agree as much equal like.
similar (in amount or kind): - + agree as much equal like.
Detailed definition
ἴσος
(epic ἶσος, so sometimes Rec.), -η, -ον, [in LXX for כְּ֜, Jb 5:14; Job.10:10, al.; אֶחָד, Eze.40:5 ff.; 2Ma.9:15, 4Ma.13:20-21, al.;]
equal, the same in size, number, quality, etc.: δωρεά, Act.11:17; μαρτυρίαι, Mrk.14:56, 59; ἴ. ποιεῖν, with accusative and dative, Mat.20:12; ἑαυτὸν τ. θεῷ, Jhn.5:18; τὰ ἴ. ἀπολαβεῖν, Luk.6:34, n. pl., ἴσα, adverbially, Rev.21:16; τ. θεῷ, Php.2:6.†
(AS)
(epic ἶσος, so sometimes Rec.), -η, -ον, [in LXX for כְּ֜, Jb 5:14; Job.10:10, al.; אֶחָד, Eze.40:5 ff.; 2Ma.9:15, 4Ma.13:20-21, al.;]
equal, the same in size, number, quality, etc.: δωρεά, Act.11:17; μαρτυρίαι, Mrk.14:56, 59; ἴ. ποιεῖν, with accusative and dative, Mat.20:12; ἑαυτὸν τ. θεῷ, Jhn.5:18; τὰ ἴ. ἀπολαβεῖν, Luk.6:34, n. pl., ἴσα, adverbially, Rev.21:16; τ. θεῷ, Php.2:6.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2470 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- equal4
- together2
- like1
- much1
First verses
- Matthew 20:12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
- Mark 14:56For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
- Mark 14:59But neither so did their witness agree together.
- Luke 6:34And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
- John 5:18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
- Acts 11:17Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
- Philippians 2:6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
- Revelation 21:16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἴσος, η, ον,
Epic dialect ἶσος and ἔϊσος (see. below); Cretan dialect, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus)] ϝίσϝος [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“GDI” 4998ii2, 4982.2, “Schwyzer” 665, compare γισγόν· ἴσον, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; later ἵσος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 708a (1) (Ephesus, 4th c.BC), “Tab.Heracl.” 1.175, etc.)]:— equal in size, strength, or number, with dative, κύματα ἶσα ὄρεσσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.290, etc.)]; frequently of appearance, like, ἶσος ἀναύδῳ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (10.378; ἶσος Ἄρευι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 91 (uncertain))]; ἴσος θεοῖσιν Ead.2.1: frequently absolutely, ἴσην.. βίην καὶ κῦδος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.205)]; ἶσον θυμὸν ἔχειν to be of like mind, [Refs (13.704, 17.720: _neuter_ as)] adverb, ἶσον ἐμοὶ φρονέουσα [Refs (15.50; θεοῖσιν ἶσ᾽ ἔθελε φρονέειν 5.441, compare 21.315)], etc.; ἴσος τινὶ τὸ μέγαθος, ὕψος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32, 124)]; τὸ μῆκος, τὸ πλάτος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.32; ἀριθμόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 662)]; ἴσα τὸν ἀ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 441c)]; ποτὴν ἴσον equal in flight of song, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Alexander Aetolus Elegiacus 5.5)]; ἴσον, τό, copy of a document, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“PLond.” 3.1222.5 (2nd c.AD), etc.: with _dative_ _person_ in place of an object of comparison, οὐ μὲν σοί ποτε ἶσον ἔχω γέρας (i.e. τῷ σῷ γέραϊ) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.163)]; τοῖσδ᾽ ἴσας ναῦς (i.e. ταῖς τῶνδε) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 262 (Lyric poetry); ἴσα τοῖς νῦν στρατηγοῖς ἀγάθ᾽ εἰργασμένους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 13.21: followed by a relative word, ἐμοὶ ἴσον.., ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν)] the same to me as to you, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 173; τὰ ἐκεῖ ἴσα, ὥσπερ τὰ ἐνθάδε 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.36 codices (perhaps σᾶ))]; τὰ ἴσα ὅσαπερ.. Legal cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.44; ἴσον.. ὅπερ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 405b.)]
2 repeated to denote equal relations, ἴσα πρὸς ἴσα tit for tat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.2; ταχθέντες ἴσοι πρὸς ἴσους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 142 (_anapaest meter_); ἴσους ἴσοισι.. ἀντιθείς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 750; ἴσα ἀντὶ ἴσων λαμβάνειν, ἐκδοῦναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 774c)]; ἴσος ἴσῳ (i.e. οἶνος ὕδατι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 184, “Comica Adespota” 107, etc.)]; κύλικος ἴσον ἴσῳ κεκραμένης (where ἴσον is adverbial) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1132; διδόναι γάλα καὶ οἶνον πίνειν ἴσον ἴσῳ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.5.1: _metaphorically_, 'fairly blended', μηδὲν ἴσον ἴσῳ φέρων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 354.)]
3 of persons, equal in rights, βούλεται ἡ πόλις ἐξ ἴσων εἶναι καὶ ὁμοίων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295b25; ἡ πολιτικὴ ἐλευθέρων καὶ ἴσων ἀρχή [prev. work] 1255b20; τὸ κατ᾽ ἀξίαν ἴ. [prev. work] 1307a26, +others)]
II equally divided or distributed, ἴση μοῖρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.318)]; ἴση alone, one's equal share, μή τίς μοι ἀτεμβόμενος κίοι ἴσης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.42 (ἴσσης conjecture Fick, compare ἴσσασθαι); τὴν ἴ. ἔχων 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 250)]; οὐ μὴν ἴ. ἔτεισεν (i.e. τίσιν) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 810)]; ἄχρι τῆς ἴ. up to the point of equality, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.17: _neuter_, μὴ ἴσον νεῖμαι ἑκατέρῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 337a; οὐ μόνον ἴσον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλέον ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.57)]; οὐκ ἀνέξῃ δωμάτων ἔχων ἴσον καὶ τῷδε νεῖμα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 547)]; τὰ ἴσα fair measure, τὰ ἴ. νέμειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.11)]; μὴ ἴσων ἕκαστον τυγχάνειν ἀλλὰ πλεονεκτεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.20)]; προστυχεῖν τῶν ἴ. to obtain fair terms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 552)]; κἂν ἴσαι (i.e. ψῆφοι) γένωνται equally divided, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 685.)]
II.2 based on equality of rights, ἴ. καὶ ἔννομος πολιτεία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.5; τὴν πολιτείαν ἰσαιτέραν καθιστάναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.89)]; τὰ ἴ. equal rights, equality, frequently joined with τὰ ὅμοια or τὰ δίκαια, ὡς τῆς πολιτείας ἐσομένης ἐν τοῖς ἴ. καὶ ὁμοίοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.45; τῶν ἴ. καὶ τῶν δικαίων ἕκαστος ἡγεῖται ἑαυτῷ μετεῖναι ἐν τῇ δημοκρατίᾳ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.67; οὐ μέτεστι τῶν ἴ. οὐδὲ τῶν ὁμοίων πρὸς τοὺς πλουσίους τοῖς λοιποῖς [prev. work]112; τῶν ἴ. μετεῖχε τοῖς ἄλλοις [prev. work]96; also ἡ ἴ. καὶ ὁμοία (i.e. δίκη), τῆς ἴ. καὶ ὁμοίας μετέχειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.105)]; ἐπ᾽ ἴ. τε καὶ ὁμοίῃ on fair and equal terms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.7, ά,compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.145)]; ἐπὶ τῇ ἴ. καὶ ὁμοίᾳ[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 27, compare “SIG” 312.27 (Samos, 4th c.BC), “OGI” 229.44 (Smyrna, 3rd c.BC))], etc.: generally, just, fair, ἐκ ποίας ἴ. καὶ δικαίας προφάς εω; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.284.)]
II.3 of persons, fair, impartial, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 684 (Lyric poetry), “OT” 677; ἴ. δικαστής 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 957c; ἴ. καὶ κοινοὶ ἀκροαταί 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.1, compare 18.7; ἴ. καὶ κοινὸν δικαστήριον [prev. author] 7.36; κοινοὺς μὲν.., ἴ. δὲ μή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 337a; ἴ. ἴσθι κρινων 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 266, compare 257; κριταὶ ἴ. καὶ δίκαιοι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.15.3, etc.)]
II.4 adequate, ἡ ἴ. φρουρά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.27)] (explained by Scholia as regular, τεταγμένη); ἴσος τοῖς παροῦσι [Refs ([prev. author] 1.132.)]
III of ground, even, flat, εἰς τὸ ἴ. καταβαίνειν, of an army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.18 (but ἐν ἴσῳ προσιέναι)] to advance with even step, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.8.11))]; λέουσιν εἰς τὸ ἴ. καθιστάμενοι μάχεσθαι, opposed to μετὰ πλεονεξίας ἀγωνίζεσθαι, on even terms, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.28)]; ἴ. τοῖχος, opposed to κεκλικώς, perpendicular, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Analytica Posteriora commentaria - pars” 2.27.)]
IV adverb ἴσως (see. entry): but also,
IV.1 neuter singular and plural from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards (see. entry [near the start]), ἶσον.. ἀπήχθετο κηρὶ μελαίνῃ)] even as Death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.454)]; ἶσον ἐμοὶ βασίυε be king like me, [Refs (9.616)]; ἶσον γάρ σε θεῷ τίσουσιν Ἀχαιοί[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 603; ἶσον ἐμῇ κεφαλῇ 18.82; τὸν.. ἶσα θεῷ.. εἰσορόωσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.520; ἶσα φίλοισι τέκεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.71, compare 13.176, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.432, 11.304, etc.)]: later absolutely, alike, δείλαιε τοῦ νοῦ τῆς τε συμφορᾶς ἴσον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1347; τὴν Σάμον καὶ Ἡρακλέας στήλας ἴσον ἀπέχειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.132: with _dative_, ἴσον ναοῖς θεῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 801)]; ἴσον ἄπεσμεν τῷ πρίν equally as before, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 302 (variant{τῶν πρίν}); ἴσα τοῖς πάνυ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 70.6)]; ἴσα καί.. like as, as if, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1187 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 994 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.14; ἴσον ὡς.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1363)]; ὥσπερ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 532; ὥστε.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 882; ἅτε.. [prev. author] “HF” 667 (Lyric poetry); ὅσονπερ.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 15.1.)]
IV.2 with Preps.: ἀπὸ τῆς ἴσης equally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.15; ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς ἴ. ἐχθρός [prev. author] 3.40; ἀπ᾽ ἴσης εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.6; ἀφ᾽ ἵσου “SIG” 426.14 (Teos, 3rd c.BC))]; δι᾽ ἴσου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 43.37)]; at equal distance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 617b)]: also in in Mathematics texts, ex aequali, of proportions, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 5 “Def.” 17, +others)]; δι᾽ ἴ. ἐν τεταραγμένῃ ἀναλογίᾳ ex aequali in disturbed proportion, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.4, +others, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 932.11)]; ἐν ἴσῳ equally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.53, 4.65)]; ἐν ἴσῳ ἐστί it matters not, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1199; ἐν ἴσῳ [ἐστὶ] καὶ εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60; ἐν τῷ ἴσῳ εἶναι [prev. author] 4.10; ἐξ ἴσης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 861a: more frequently ἐξ ἴσου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.135, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 563, etc.; ἐξ ἴ. τινί [prev. author] “Ant.” 516, 644, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517a)]; evenly, εὐθεῖα γραμμή ἐστιν ἥτις ἐξ ἴ. τοῖς ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς σημείοις κεῖται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1 “Def.” 4; ἐξ ἴ. καὶ.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 254; ὡς.. [prev. author] “OT” 61)]; οἱ ἐξ ἴ. persons of equal station, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 777d, compare 919d; ὁ ἐξ ἴ. κίνδυνος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.4.4; ἐκ τοῦ ἴ. γίγνεσθαί τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3; τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου ἡμῖν οὖσι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 8.5; ἐξ ἴσου τισὶ τῆς πολιτείας μεταδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.3)]; ἐκ τοῦ ἴ. μάχεσθαι to be evenly matched, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.16; ἐξ ἴ. πολεμεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.47)]; κατὰ μῆνα τὸ αἱροῦν ἐξ ἴ. the sum due in equal monthly instalments, [Refs (“PAmh.” 2.92.14, etc.)]; ἐπὶ or ἐπ᾽ ἴσης, ἐπὶ ἴ. διαφέρειν τὸν πόλεμον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.74; τοῦτο ἐπ᾽ ἴσης ἔχει [prev. author] 7.50, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1062 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐπ᾽ ἴσου 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.18.10; ἐπ᾽ ἴσον [prev. author] 6.38.4, cf. Docum. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.106, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.21 W.; ἐπὶ ἶσα μάχη τέτατο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.436; compare κατὰ ἶσα μάχην ἐτάνυσσε 11.336; κατ᾽ ἴσον 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.68.6, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 1.19)]; μετ᾽ ἴσου equally, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 124.12.)]
V comparative ἰσαίτερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 441, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.89, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.14: _superlative_ ἰσότατος Timo 68; ἰσαίτατος 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.462)]. adverb ὡς ἰσαίτατα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 744c, but ὡς ἰσότατα “SIG” 531.30 (from Dyme))]. [ῑ in early Epic dialect (except [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 752), compare 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 24.1: ῐ first in 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 678, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.1 (but ἶσος Ead.91 assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.46 (but ἶσον 1.62, “fragment” 2.2), and always in 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] (except in compound ῑσοδαίμων) and Trag. [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 216 is uncertain reading) except in _compound_ ῑσό-θεος (which see))]; uncertain in ἰσ-όνειρος. Both quantities are found in later poetry, sometimes in same line, ἔχοισαν ἴσον κάτω, ἶσον ἄνωθεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.19; πρέσβυν ἴσον κούροις, ἶσον ἁδόντα κόραις “APl.” 4.309.])]
Epic dialect ἶσος and ἔϊσος (see. below); Cretan dialect, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus)] ϝίσϝος [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“GDI” 4998ii2, 4982.2, “Schwyzer” 665, compare γισγόν· ἴσον, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; later ἵσος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 708a (1) (Ephesus, 4th c.BC), “Tab.Heracl.” 1.175, etc.)]:— equal in size, strength, or number, with dative, κύματα ἶσα ὄρεσσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.290, etc.)]; frequently of appearance, like, ἶσος ἀναύδῳ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (10.378; ἶσος Ἄρευι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 91 (uncertain))]; ἴσος θεοῖσιν Ead.2.1: frequently absolutely, ἴσην.. βίην καὶ κῦδος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.205)]; ἶσον θυμὸν ἔχειν to be of like mind, [Refs (13.704, 17.720: _neuter_ as)] adverb, ἶσον ἐμοὶ φρονέουσα [Refs (15.50; θεοῖσιν ἶσ᾽ ἔθελε φρονέειν 5.441, compare 21.315)], etc.; ἴσος τινὶ τὸ μέγαθος, ὕψος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32, 124)]; τὸ μῆκος, τὸ πλάτος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.32; ἀριθμόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 662)]; ἴσα τὸν ἀ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 441c)]; ποτὴν ἴσον equal in flight of song, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Alexander Aetolus Elegiacus 5.5)]; ἴσον, τό, copy of a document, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“PLond.” 3.1222.5 (2nd c.AD), etc.: with _dative_ _person_ in place of an object of comparison, οὐ μὲν σοί ποτε ἶσον ἔχω γέρας (i.e. τῷ σῷ γέραϊ) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.163)]; τοῖσδ᾽ ἴσας ναῦς (i.e. ταῖς τῶνδε) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 262 (Lyric poetry); ἴσα τοῖς νῦν στρατηγοῖς ἀγάθ᾽ εἰργασμένους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 13.21: followed by a relative word, ἐμοὶ ἴσον.., ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν)] the same to me as to you, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 173; τὰ ἐκεῖ ἴσα, ὥσπερ τὰ ἐνθάδε 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.36 codices (perhaps σᾶ))]; τὰ ἴσα ὅσαπερ.. Legal cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.44; ἴσον.. ὅπερ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 405b.)]
2 repeated to denote equal relations, ἴσα πρὸς ἴσα tit for tat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.2; ταχθέντες ἴσοι πρὸς ἴσους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 142 (_anapaest meter_); ἴσους ἴσοισι.. ἀντιθείς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 750; ἴσα ἀντὶ ἴσων λαμβάνειν, ἐκδοῦναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 774c)]; ἴσος ἴσῳ (i.e. οἶνος ὕδατι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 184, “Comica Adespota” 107, etc.)]; κύλικος ἴσον ἴσῳ κεκραμένης (where ἴσον is adverbial) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1132; διδόναι γάλα καὶ οἶνον πίνειν ἴσον ἴσῳ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.5.1: _metaphorically_, 'fairly blended', μηδὲν ἴσον ἴσῳ φέρων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 354.)]
3 of persons, equal in rights, βούλεται ἡ πόλις ἐξ ἴσων εἶναι καὶ ὁμοίων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295b25; ἡ πολιτικὴ ἐλευθέρων καὶ ἴσων ἀρχή [prev. work] 1255b20; τὸ κατ᾽ ἀξίαν ἴ. [prev. work] 1307a26, +others)]
II equally divided or distributed, ἴση μοῖρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.318)]; ἴση alone, one's equal share, μή τίς μοι ἀτεμβόμενος κίοι ἴσης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.42 (ἴσσης conjecture Fick, compare ἴσσασθαι); τὴν ἴ. ἔχων 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 250)]; οὐ μὴν ἴ. ἔτεισεν (i.e. τίσιν) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 810)]; ἄχρι τῆς ἴ. up to the point of equality, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.17: _neuter_, μὴ ἴσον νεῖμαι ἑκατέρῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 337a; οὐ μόνον ἴσον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλέον ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.57)]; οὐκ ἀνέξῃ δωμάτων ἔχων ἴσον καὶ τῷδε νεῖμα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 547)]; τὰ ἴσα fair measure, τὰ ἴ. νέμειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.11)]; μὴ ἴσων ἕκαστον τυγχάνειν ἀλλὰ πλεονεκτεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.20)]; προστυχεῖν τῶν ἴ. to obtain fair terms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 552)]; κἂν ἴσαι (i.e. ψῆφοι) γένωνται equally divided, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 685.)]
II.2 based on equality of rights, ἴ. καὶ ἔννομος πολιτεία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.5; τὴν πολιτείαν ἰσαιτέραν καθιστάναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.89)]; τὰ ἴ. equal rights, equality, frequently joined with τὰ ὅμοια or τὰ δίκαια, ὡς τῆς πολιτείας ἐσομένης ἐν τοῖς ἴ. καὶ ὁμοίοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.45; τῶν ἴ. καὶ τῶν δικαίων ἕκαστος ἡγεῖται ἑαυτῷ μετεῖναι ἐν τῇ δημοκρατίᾳ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.67; οὐ μέτεστι τῶν ἴ. οὐδὲ τῶν ὁμοίων πρὸς τοὺς πλουσίους τοῖς λοιποῖς [prev. work]112; τῶν ἴ. μετεῖχε τοῖς ἄλλοις [prev. work]96; also ἡ ἴ. καὶ ὁμοία (i.e. δίκη), τῆς ἴ. καὶ ὁμοίας μετέχειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.105)]; ἐπ᾽ ἴ. τε καὶ ὁμοίῃ on fair and equal terms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.7, ά,compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.145)]; ἐπὶ τῇ ἴ. καὶ ὁμοίᾳ[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 27, compare “SIG” 312.27 (Samos, 4th c.BC), “OGI” 229.44 (Smyrna, 3rd c.BC))], etc.: generally, just, fair, ἐκ ποίας ἴ. καὶ δικαίας προφάς εω; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.284.)]
II.3 of persons, fair, impartial, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 684 (Lyric poetry), “OT” 677; ἴ. δικαστής 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 957c; ἴ. καὶ κοινοὶ ἀκροαταί 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.1, compare 18.7; ἴ. καὶ κοινὸν δικαστήριον [prev. author] 7.36; κοινοὺς μὲν.., ἴ. δὲ μή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 337a; ἴ. ἴσθι κρινων 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 266, compare 257; κριταὶ ἴ. καὶ δίκαιοι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.15.3, etc.)]
II.4 adequate, ἡ ἴ. φρουρά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.27)] (explained by Scholia as regular, τεταγμένη); ἴσος τοῖς παροῦσι [Refs ([prev. author] 1.132.)]
III of ground, even, flat, εἰς τὸ ἴ. καταβαίνειν, of an army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.18 (but ἐν ἴσῳ προσιέναι)] to advance with even step, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.8.11))]; λέουσιν εἰς τὸ ἴ. καθιστάμενοι μάχεσθαι, opposed to μετὰ πλεονεξίας ἀγωνίζεσθαι, on even terms, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.28)]; ἴ. τοῖχος, opposed to κεκλικώς, perpendicular, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Analytica Posteriora commentaria - pars” 2.27.)]
IV adverb ἴσως (see. entry): but also,
IV.1 neuter singular and plural from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards (see. entry [near the start]), ἶσον.. ἀπήχθετο κηρὶ μελαίνῃ)] even as Death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.454)]; ἶσον ἐμοὶ βασίυε be king like me, [Refs (9.616)]; ἶσον γάρ σε θεῷ τίσουσιν Ἀχαιοί[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 603; ἶσον ἐμῇ κεφαλῇ 18.82; τὸν.. ἶσα θεῷ.. εἰσορόωσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.520; ἶσα φίλοισι τέκεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.71, compare 13.176, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.432, 11.304, etc.)]: later absolutely, alike, δείλαιε τοῦ νοῦ τῆς τε συμφορᾶς ἴσον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1347; τὴν Σάμον καὶ Ἡρακλέας στήλας ἴσον ἀπέχειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.132: with _dative_, ἴσον ναοῖς θεῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 801)]; ἴσον ἄπεσμεν τῷ πρίν equally as before, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 302 (variant{τῶν πρίν}); ἴσα τοῖς πάνυ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 70.6)]; ἴσα καί.. like as, as if, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1187 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 994 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.14; ἴσον ὡς.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1363)]; ὥσπερ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 532; ὥστε.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 882; ἅτε.. [prev. author] “HF” 667 (Lyric poetry); ὅσονπερ.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 15.1.)]
IV.2 with Preps.: ἀπὸ τῆς ἴσης equally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.15; ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς ἴ. ἐχθρός [prev. author] 3.40; ἀπ᾽ ἴσης εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.6; ἀφ᾽ ἵσου “SIG” 426.14 (Teos, 3rd c.BC))]; δι᾽ ἴσου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 43.37)]; at equal distance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 617b)]: also in in Mathematics texts, ex aequali, of proportions, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 5 “Def.” 17, +others)]; δι᾽ ἴ. ἐν τεταραγμένῃ ἀναλογίᾳ ex aequali in disturbed proportion, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.4, +others, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 932.11)]; ἐν ἴσῳ equally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.53, 4.65)]; ἐν ἴσῳ ἐστί it matters not, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1199; ἐν ἴσῳ [ἐστὶ] καὶ εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60; ἐν τῷ ἴσῳ εἶναι [prev. author] 4.10; ἐξ ἴσης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 861a: more frequently ἐξ ἴσου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.135, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 563, etc.; ἐξ ἴ. τινί [prev. author] “Ant.” 516, 644, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517a)]; evenly, εὐθεῖα γραμμή ἐστιν ἥτις ἐξ ἴ. τοῖς ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς σημείοις κεῖται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1 “Def.” 4; ἐξ ἴ. καὶ.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 254; ὡς.. [prev. author] “OT” 61)]; οἱ ἐξ ἴ. persons of equal station, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 777d, compare 919d; ὁ ἐξ ἴ. κίνδυνος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.4.4; ἐκ τοῦ ἴ. γίγνεσθαί τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3; τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου ἡμῖν οὖσι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 8.5; ἐξ ἴσου τισὶ τῆς πολιτείας μεταδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.3)]; ἐκ τοῦ ἴ. μάχεσθαι to be evenly matched, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.16; ἐξ ἴ. πολεμεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.47)]; κατὰ μῆνα τὸ αἱροῦν ἐξ ἴ. the sum due in equal monthly instalments, [Refs (“PAmh.” 2.92.14, etc.)]; ἐπὶ or ἐπ᾽ ἴσης, ἐπὶ ἴ. διαφέρειν τὸν πόλεμον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.74; τοῦτο ἐπ᾽ ἴσης ἔχει [prev. author] 7.50, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1062 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐπ᾽ ἴσου 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.18.10; ἐπ᾽ ἴσον [prev. author] 6.38.4, cf. Docum. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.106, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.21 W.; ἐπὶ ἶσα μάχη τέτατο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.436; compare κατὰ ἶσα μάχην ἐτάνυσσε 11.336; κατ᾽ ἴσον 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.68.6, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 1.19)]; μετ᾽ ἴσου equally, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 124.12.)]
V comparative ἰσαίτερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 441, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.89, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.14: _superlative_ ἰσότατος Timo 68; ἰσαίτατος 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.462)]. adverb ὡς ἰσαίτατα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 744c, but ὡς ἰσότατα “SIG” 531.30 (from Dyme))]. [ῑ in early Epic dialect (except [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 752), compare 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 24.1: ῐ first in 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 678, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.1 (but ἶσος Ead.91 assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.46 (but ἶσον 1.62, “fragment” 2.2), and always in 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] (except in compound ῑσοδαίμων) and Trag. [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 216 is uncertain reading) except in _compound_ ῑσό-θεος (which see))]; uncertain in ἰσ-όνειρος. Both quantities are found in later poetry, sometimes in same line, ἔχοισαν ἴσον κάτω, ἶσον ἄνωθεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.19; πρέσβυν ἴσον κούροις, ἶσον ἁδόντα κόραις “APl.” 4.309.])]