Strong G3634οἷος
such as
- Transliteration
- oios
- Pronunciation
- hoy'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Correlative
Definition
Detailed definition
οἷος, -α, -ον
relat. pron., qualitative (related to ὅς as qualis to qui), what sort or manner of, such as, in NT usually without its correl. τοιοῦτος: Mat.24:21, Mrk.9:3, 2Co.12:20, 1Th.1:5, 2Ti.3:11, Rev.16:18; before τοιοῦτος, 1Co.15:48 15:2 2Co.10:11; id. redundant, Mrk.13:19; τ. αὑτὸν... σἷον, Php.1:30; οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι, elliptically, but it is not as though (RV), Rom.9:6.†
(AS)
relat. pron., qualitative (related to ὅς as qualis to qui), what sort or manner of, such as, in NT usually without its correl. τοιοῦτος: Mat.24:21, Mrk.9:3, 2Co.12:20, 1Th.1:5, 2Ti.3:11, Rev.16:18; before τοιοῦτος, 1Co.15:48 15:2 2Co.10:11; id. redundant, Mrk.13:19; τ. αὑτὸν... σἷον, Php.1:30; οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι, elliptically, but it is not as though (RV), Rom.9:6.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3634 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- such5
- which2
- as1
- man1
- manner1
- so1
- though1
- what1
First verses
- Matthew 24:21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- Mark 9:3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
- Mark 13:19For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
- Luke 9:55But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
- Romans 9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
- 1 Corinthians 15:48As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- 2 Corinthians 10:11Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
- 2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
- Philippians 1:30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:5For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
- 2 Timothy 3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
- Revelation 16:18And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
οἷος, οἵα,
Ionic dialect οἵη, οἷον, (ὅς) such as, of what sort, relative and indirect interrogative pronoun, correlative to direct interrogative ποῖος, indefinite ποιός, demonstrative τοῖος: ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.630; ὁσσάτιόν τε καὶ οἷον 5.758: with _accusative_, οἶδ᾽ ἀρετὴν οἷός ἐσσι)] what a man for valour, [Refs (13.275: frequently to be rendered by an)] adverb, οἷος πόλεμόνδε μέτεισι as he rushes into war, [Refs ([prev. work] 298, etc.:)] —Usage:
I οἷος in an independent sentence as an exclamation of astonishment, ὢ πόποι.., οἷον ἔειπες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.455)]; οἷ. τὸ πῦρ what a fire is this ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1256, compare “Pers.” 733, +others; οἷ. εἰργάσασθε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 450a; οἷ. ἄνδρα λέγεις ἐν κινδύνῳ εἶναι [prev. author] “Tht.” 142b; οἷα ποιεῖς [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 15e, etc.: so in _neuter_ as)] adverb, see below see [Refs (1.)]
I.2 in indirect sentences, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 624, 1402, 1488, etc.; ὁρᾶτε δὴ ἐν οἵῳ ἐστέ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.12; ὁρῶν ἐν οἵοις ἐσμέν [prev. author] “An.” 3.1.15.)]
II more frequently as relative to a demonstrative τοῖος, τοιόσδε, τοιοῦτος, or to ὁ, ὅδε, as τῷ ἴκελον, οἷόν ποτε Δαίδαλος ἤσκησεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.591; θέαμα τοιοῦτον οἷ. καὶ στυγοῦντ᾽ ἐποικτίσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1296)]: but the demonstrative pronoun is frequently omitted, οὐ γὰρ ἐμὴ ἲς ἔσθ᾽ οἵη πάρος ἔσκεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.669, etc.)]; οἷ. καὶ Πάρις.. ᾔσχυνε like as Paris also.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 399 (Lyric poetry), compare “Pers.” 21, +others: with δή added, τοιόνδ᾽, οἷ. δὴ σύ)] such as you surely are, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.376, see below see 2)]: with περ added, οἵη περ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν just such as.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6.146, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 607, 1046, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.19)]: very frequently with τε added (this οἷός τε must be distinguished from οἷός τε with infinitive, see[Refs 8th c.BC+ (below 111.2), οἷός τε πελώριος ἔρχεται Ἄρης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.208, compare 17.157, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.106, etc.; οἷός που 20.35: οἷός τις, οἷόν τι)] generalizes a Comparison, the sort of person who.., thing which.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.348)]; οἶσθα εἰς οἷόν τινα κίνδυνον ἔρχει..; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313a)]; with attraction of οἷος to the case of its antecedent (which may follow instead of preceding), οἵοις περ σὺ χρώμενοι συμβούλοις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.185)]; and with further attraction of the subject of the relative clause, οὐ γάρ πω τοίους ἴδον ἀνέρας.., οἷον Πειρίθοον (for οἷος Πειρίθοος) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.263; πρὸς ἄνδρας τολμηρούς, οἵους καὶ Ἀθηναίους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.21, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.9.3; περὶ τοῦ τοιούτου.., οἵου τοῦ ἑνός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 161b.)]
II.2 οἷος, οἵα, οἷον frequently introduce an 'indirect exclamation', giving the reason for what precedes, ἄνακτα χόλος λάβεν, οἷον ἄκουσε because of what he heard, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.166, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.479)]; ἐμακάριζον τὴν μητέρα οἵων τέκνων ἐκύρησε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31; ἀγανάκτησιν ἔχει ὑφ᾽ οἵων κακοπαθεῖ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41; τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ τύχην [ἀπέκλαον], οἵου ἀνδρὸς.. ἐστερημένος εἴην 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117c, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 701.)]
II.3 sometimes in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus οἷος)] introduces the reason for saying what is said, ὠκύμορος.. ἔσσεαι, οἷ᾽ ἀγορεύεις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.95, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.611; αἲ γάρ με θυμὸς ἀνείη ὤμ᾽ ἀποταμνόμενον κρέα ἔδμεναι, οἷα ἔοργας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.347.)]
II.4 οἷα δὴ εἴπας saying so and so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.86 (compare ὅσος 111.2): later with other Particles, see infr. VI.)]
II.5 οὐδὲν οἷον.. there's nothing like.., ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν οἷ. ἐστ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι τῶν ἐπῶν there's nothing like hearing the verses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 966, compare “Lys.” 135; οὐδὲν γὰρ οἷ. ἀκούειν αὐτοῦ τοῦ νόμου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.46, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 447c, 481b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 3.14.)]
II.6 never used like adverb οἷον (infr. V. I) with an adjective = how, for in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.653, οἶσθα.. οἷ. ἐκεῖνος δεινὸς ἀνήρ)] = what manner of man, namely dread, compare [Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.94, 21.108, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.493, etc.)]
II.7 as indefinite, a sort or kind of.., ὁ δ᾽ ἕτερος οἷός ἐστιν οἰκουρὸς μόνον only a kind of watch-dog, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 970)]; so with adjective, ἀφόρητος οἷος.. κρυμός of an intolerable kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28)]; θαυμαστὸς οἷος of a wonderful nature, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Zeux.” 6)]; οἷος ἔμπειρος πολέμου rather skilled in war, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.18)]; οἷον τετανότριχα rather straight-haired, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2b)]; frequently with superlative, χωρίον οἷον χαλεπώτατον country of a very difficult kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.2, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 978, “Ach.” 384, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23a; ἀνὴρ οἷος κράτιστος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1165b27; κόλπος οἷος βαθύτατος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 14.26: in some of these passages with _superlative_ it is possible to take οἷος as _relative_, supplying δυνατόν,compare ξύμμαχος ἔσομαι οἷος ἂν δύνωμαι ἄριστος “IG” 12.39.28.)]
III οἷος with infinitive implies fitness or ability for a thing, οὐ γὰρ ἦν ὥρα οἵα τὸ πεδίον ἄρδειν fit for watering, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 487d)]; οἷοι φιλεῖν, μισεῖν, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.2, etc.: frequently with τοιοῦτος)] expressed, τοιοῦτός τις οἷ. διαπονεῖσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 395a, compare “R.” 415e)]; τὸ πρᾶγμα μέγα.. καὶ μὴ οἷ. νεωτέρῳ βουλεύσασθαι not proper for a young man to advise upon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.12)]: without infinitive, λόγους οἵους εἰς τὰ δικαστήρια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 272a.)]
III.b οἷός εἰμι I intend, ἐβιάζετο.. καὶ οἷος ἦν ἐξευρεῖν τὴν θύραν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 159 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.9, +others, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.21)]; οἷος ἦν κατεσθίειν was on the point of eating, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus Car. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.345d.)]
III.2 more frequently οἷός τε with infinitive, fit or able to do, λιποίμην οἷός τ᾽.. ἀέθλια κάλ᾽ ἀνελέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.117 (preceded by τοῖον [prev. work] 173), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.29, 67, 91; λέγειν οἷός τε κἀγώ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 343, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.69, etc.)]; inclined to.., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.90.5, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 4.6.3: most frequently in _neuter_ _sing._ and _plural_, οἷόν τε [ἐστί])] it is possible to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.80, etc.; οἷά τε [ἐστί] 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.194, etc.; a _dative_ is sometimes added, μὴ οἷόν τε εἶναι ἐμοὶ κωλῦσαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.14.)]
III.3 without infinitive, πάνυ προθύμως ὡς οἷός τ᾽ ἦν ἐπήραξεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314d: but mostly in _neuter_, οἷόν τε [ἐστίν])] it is possible, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.9; οὐχ οἷόν τε ἐστίν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 198, etc.)]: with superlative, καλὸν ὡς οἷόν τε μάλιστα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 349e; ὡς οἷόν τε σμικρότατα [prev. author] “Prm.” 144b; ὡς οἷόν τε διὰ βραχυτάτων [prev. author] “Grg.” 449d)]: without superlative, φρίττειν.. ποιεῖ ὡς οἷόν τε πάντας [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 387c (uncertain reading))]; ὡς οἷόν τε sometimes so far as possible, of what cannot be done completely, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.75, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313a39, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 3.)]
IV sometimes twice in the same clause, οἷ᾽ ἔργα δράσας οἷα λαγχάνει κακά after what deeds what sufferings are his ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 751)]; ἱερῶν οἵαν οἵων χάριν ἠνύσω what thanks for what offerings ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tr.” 994, compare 1045, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 144: so in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 195a.)]
V as adverb in neuter singular οἷον, in Poets and Ionic dialect Prose also plural οἷα, how, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.32, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.601, 13.633, 15.287: also with _adjectives_, οἷον ἐερσήεις)] how fresh, [Refs (24.419)]; οἷον δὴ Μενέλαον ὑπέτρεσας seeing how thou didst shrink from M., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.587, compare 21.57. (Regul. _adverb_ οἵως is rare, as in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.7.2, _falsa lectio_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1363)]; οἷος ὢν οἵ. ἔχεις in what a state art thou for such a man! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 923; οἵως τέ σφ᾽ ἐσάωσα 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.786.))]
V.2 as, just as, οἷον ὅτε.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.295: also _neuter_ _plural_ οἷα, οἷά τις.. ἀηδών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1142 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 105 (Lyric poetry), etc.: so οἷά τε in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, οἷά τε ληϊστῆρες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.73, compare 9.128, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.175: strengthened by Particles, οἷα δή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219e, “R.” 467b; οἷα δή που 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 1.14)]: later a double form occurs, οἷον ὡς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 94, Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.113 H.; οἷον ὥσπερ.. 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.80 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, uncertain in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.563f.)]
V.2.b as for instance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 218e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 333a11, etc.)]; οἷον τί λέγει; as for example, what do you mean ? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 207a, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.271, where οἷον is)] adjective
V.2.c in numerical estimates, about, οἷον δέκα σταδίους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90; μῆκος οἷον ἐπὶ δέκα δακτύλους “IG” 22.1457.17.)]
V.2.d οἷον parenthetically prefixed to any word or phrase, as it were, so to speak, οἷον υἱεῖς γνησίους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 278a, compare “Cra.” 396a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 532a6, “GA” 753a33; τῶν οἷον προγυμναζομένων 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 6.20; τοῦ οἷον δόγματος 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 9.69)]; τὴν.. οἷον φάτταν the ring-dove of my parable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 199b.)]
V.2.e οἷον explanatory, that is to say, τὸ νῦν ῥηθησόμενον, οἷον.. what I am about to mention, i.e. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 639b6, compare “GC” 333a11, +others)]; κατὰ τὸ μέσον, οἷον κατὰ τὴν συμβολὴν τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς διαγωνίων in the middle, i. e. at the intersection of their diagonals, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 3.16, compare 22, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus see at {οἰοφάγῳ}, +others)]
V.3 like{ὡς, ἅτε}, with a participle, οἷα ἀπροσδοκήτου κακοῦ γενομένου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5, compare 8.95, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203b.)]
V.4 οὐχ οἷον or μὴ οἷον, followed by ἀλλ᾽ οὐδέ or ἀλλὰ μηδέ, not only not.., but not even.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.12, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.18, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.249 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, etc.)]
VI strengthened with various Particles, οἷος δή, see above 11.4: οἱοσδήποτε, οἱαδήποτε, οἱονδήποτε, of such and such a kind, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1114b17)]; οἱοσδηποτοῦν, of whatever kind, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Geometry texts” 12.30, +others, “BGU” 895.28 (2nd c.AD), 7th c.AD: Paulus Aegineta Medicus 6.88)]; οἱοσδήπως, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“OGI” 521.4 (Abydos, 5th-6th c.AD))]; οἱοσδητισοῦν, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work]515.16 (Mylasa, 3rd c.AD))]; οἱοσοῦν, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 30.7.1)]; οἱοσποτοῦν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 146b26)]; οἱοστισοῦν, see reading in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.76.13. [οῐ is found in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.275, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.312; and sometimes in Trag., as 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1256)], especially in the form οἷός τε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1415, “OC” 262, 803, +others])]
Ionic dialect οἵη, οἷον, (ὅς) such as, of what sort, relative and indirect interrogative pronoun, correlative to direct interrogative ποῖος, indefinite ποιός, demonstrative τοῖος: ὅσσος ἔην οἷός τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.630; ὁσσάτιόν τε καὶ οἷον 5.758: with _accusative_, οἶδ᾽ ἀρετὴν οἷός ἐσσι)] what a man for valour, [Refs (13.275: frequently to be rendered by an)] adverb, οἷος πόλεμόνδε μέτεισι as he rushes into war, [Refs ([prev. work] 298, etc.:)] —Usage:
I οἷος in an independent sentence as an exclamation of astonishment, ὢ πόποι.., οἷον ἔειπες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.455)]; οἷ. τὸ πῦρ what a fire is this ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1256, compare “Pers.” 733, +others; οἷ. εἰργάσασθε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 450a; οἷ. ἄνδρα λέγεις ἐν κινδύνῳ εἶναι [prev. author] “Tht.” 142b; οἷα ποιεῖς [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 15e, etc.: so in _neuter_ as)] adverb, see below see [Refs (1.)]
I.2 in indirect sentences, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 624, 1402, 1488, etc.; ὁρᾶτε δὴ ἐν οἵῳ ἐστέ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.12; ὁρῶν ἐν οἵοις ἐσμέν [prev. author] “An.” 3.1.15.)]
II more frequently as relative to a demonstrative τοῖος, τοιόσδε, τοιοῦτος, or to ὁ, ὅδε, as τῷ ἴκελον, οἷόν ποτε Δαίδαλος ἤσκησεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.591; θέαμα τοιοῦτον οἷ. καὶ στυγοῦντ᾽ ἐποικτίσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1296)]: but the demonstrative pronoun is frequently omitted, οὐ γὰρ ἐμὴ ἲς ἔσθ᾽ οἵη πάρος ἔσκεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.669, etc.)]; οἷ. καὶ Πάρις.. ᾔσχυνε like as Paris also.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 399 (Lyric poetry), compare “Pers.” 21, +others: with δή added, τοιόνδ᾽, οἷ. δὴ σύ)] such as you surely are, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.376, see below see 2)]: with περ added, οἵη περ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν just such as.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6.146, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 607, 1046, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.19)]: very frequently with τε added (this οἷός τε must be distinguished from οἷός τε with infinitive, see[Refs 8th c.BC+ (below 111.2), οἷός τε πελώριος ἔρχεται Ἄρης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.208, compare 17.157, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.106, etc.; οἷός που 20.35: οἷός τις, οἷόν τι)] generalizes a Comparison, the sort of person who.., thing which.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.348)]; οἶσθα εἰς οἷόν τινα κίνδυνον ἔρχει..; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313a)]; with attraction of οἷος to the case of its antecedent (which may follow instead of preceding), οἵοις περ σὺ χρώμενοι συμβούλοις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.185)]; and with further attraction of the subject of the relative clause, οὐ γάρ πω τοίους ἴδον ἀνέρας.., οἷον Πειρίθοον (for οἷος Πειρίθοος) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.263; πρὸς ἄνδρας τολμηρούς, οἵους καὶ Ἀθηναίους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.21, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.9.3; περὶ τοῦ τοιούτου.., οἵου τοῦ ἑνός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 161b.)]
II.2 οἷος, οἵα, οἷον frequently introduce an 'indirect exclamation', giving the reason for what precedes, ἄνακτα χόλος λάβεν, οἷον ἄκουσε because of what he heard, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.166, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.479)]; ἐμακάριζον τὴν μητέρα οἵων τέκνων ἐκύρησε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31; ἀγανάκτησιν ἔχει ὑφ᾽ οἵων κακοπαθεῖ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41; τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ τύχην [ἀπέκλαον], οἵου ἀνδρὸς.. ἐστερημένος εἴην 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117c, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 701.)]
II.3 sometimes in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus οἷος)] introduces the reason for saying what is said, ὠκύμορος.. ἔσσεαι, οἷ᾽ ἀγορεύεις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.95, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.611; αἲ γάρ με θυμὸς ἀνείη ὤμ᾽ ἀποταμνόμενον κρέα ἔδμεναι, οἷα ἔοργας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.347.)]
II.4 οἷα δὴ εἴπας saying so and so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.86 (compare ὅσος 111.2): later with other Particles, see infr. VI.)]
II.5 οὐδὲν οἷον.. there's nothing like.., ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν οἷ. ἐστ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι τῶν ἐπῶν there's nothing like hearing the verses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 966, compare “Lys.” 135; οὐδὲν γὰρ οἷ. ἀκούειν αὐτοῦ τοῦ νόμου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.46, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 447c, 481b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 3.14.)]
II.6 never used like adverb οἷον (infr. V. I) with an adjective = how, for in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.653, οἶσθα.. οἷ. ἐκεῖνος δεινὸς ἀνήρ)] = what manner of man, namely dread, compare [Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.94, 21.108, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.493, etc.)]
II.7 as indefinite, a sort or kind of.., ὁ δ᾽ ἕτερος οἷός ἐστιν οἰκουρὸς μόνον only a kind of watch-dog, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 970)]; so with adjective, ἀφόρητος οἷος.. κρυμός of an intolerable kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28)]; θαυμαστὸς οἷος of a wonderful nature, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Zeux.” 6)]; οἷος ἔμπειρος πολέμου rather skilled in war, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.18)]; οἷον τετανότριχα rather straight-haired, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2b)]; frequently with superlative, χωρίον οἷον χαλεπώτατον country of a very difficult kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.2, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 978, “Ach.” 384, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23a; ἀνὴρ οἷος κράτιστος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1165b27; κόλπος οἷος βαθύτατος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 14.26: in some of these passages with _superlative_ it is possible to take οἷος as _relative_, supplying δυνατόν,compare ξύμμαχος ἔσομαι οἷος ἂν δύνωμαι ἄριστος “IG” 12.39.28.)]
III οἷος with infinitive implies fitness or ability for a thing, οὐ γὰρ ἦν ὥρα οἵα τὸ πεδίον ἄρδειν fit for watering, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 487d)]; οἷοι φιλεῖν, μισεῖν, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.2, etc.: frequently with τοιοῦτος)] expressed, τοιοῦτός τις οἷ. διαπονεῖσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 395a, compare “R.” 415e)]; τὸ πρᾶγμα μέγα.. καὶ μὴ οἷ. νεωτέρῳ βουλεύσασθαι not proper for a young man to advise upon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.12)]: without infinitive, λόγους οἵους εἰς τὰ δικαστήρια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 272a.)]
III.b οἷός εἰμι I intend, ἐβιάζετο.. καὶ οἷος ἦν ἐξευρεῖν τὴν θύραν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 159 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.9, +others, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.21)]; οἷος ἦν κατεσθίειν was on the point of eating, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus Car. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.345d.)]
III.2 more frequently οἷός τε with infinitive, fit or able to do, λιποίμην οἷός τ᾽.. ἀέθλια κάλ᾽ ἀνελέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.117 (preceded by τοῖον [prev. work] 173), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.29, 67, 91; λέγειν οἷός τε κἀγώ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 343, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.69, etc.)]; inclined to.., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.90.5, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 4.6.3: most frequently in _neuter_ _sing._ and _plural_, οἷόν τε [ἐστί])] it is possible to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.80, etc.; οἷά τε [ἐστί] 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.194, etc.; a _dative_ is sometimes added, μὴ οἷόν τε εἶναι ἐμοὶ κωλῦσαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.14.)]
III.3 without infinitive, πάνυ προθύμως ὡς οἷός τ᾽ ἦν ἐπήραξεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314d: but mostly in _neuter_, οἷόν τε [ἐστίν])] it is possible, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.9; οὐχ οἷόν τε ἐστίν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 198, etc.)]: with superlative, καλὸν ὡς οἷόν τε μάλιστα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 349e; ὡς οἷόν τε σμικρότατα [prev. author] “Prm.” 144b; ὡς οἷόν τε διὰ βραχυτάτων [prev. author] “Grg.” 449d)]: without superlative, φρίττειν.. ποιεῖ ὡς οἷόν τε πάντας [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 387c (uncertain reading))]; ὡς οἷόν τε sometimes so far as possible, of what cannot be done completely, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.75, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313a39, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 3.)]
IV sometimes twice in the same clause, οἷ᾽ ἔργα δράσας οἷα λαγχάνει κακά after what deeds what sufferings are his ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 751)]; ἱερῶν οἵαν οἵων χάριν ἠνύσω what thanks for what offerings ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tr.” 994, compare 1045, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 144: so in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 195a.)]
V as adverb in neuter singular οἷον, in Poets and Ionic dialect Prose also plural οἷα, how, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.32, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.601, 13.633, 15.287: also with _adjectives_, οἷον ἐερσήεις)] how fresh, [Refs (24.419)]; οἷον δὴ Μενέλαον ὑπέτρεσας seeing how thou didst shrink from M., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.587, compare 21.57. (Regul. _adverb_ οἵως is rare, as in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.7.2, _falsa lectio_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1363)]; οἷος ὢν οἵ. ἔχεις in what a state art thou for such a man! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 923; οἵως τέ σφ᾽ ἐσάωσα 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.786.))]
V.2 as, just as, οἷον ὅτε.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.295: also _neuter_ _plural_ οἷα, οἷά τις.. ἀηδών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1142 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 105 (Lyric poetry), etc.: so οἷά τε in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, οἷά τε ληϊστῆρες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.73, compare 9.128, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.175: strengthened by Particles, οἷα δή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219e, “R.” 467b; οἷα δή που 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 1.14)]: later a double form occurs, οἷον ὡς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 94, Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.113 H.; οἷον ὥσπερ.. 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.80 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, uncertain in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.563f.)]
V.2.b as for instance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 218e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 333a11, etc.)]; οἷον τί λέγει; as for example, what do you mean ? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 207a, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.271, where οἷον is)] adjective
V.2.c in numerical estimates, about, οἷον δέκα σταδίους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90; μῆκος οἷον ἐπὶ δέκα δακτύλους “IG” 22.1457.17.)]
V.2.d οἷον parenthetically prefixed to any word or phrase, as it were, so to speak, οἷον υἱεῖς γνησίους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 278a, compare “Cra.” 396a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 532a6, “GA” 753a33; τῶν οἷον προγυμναζομένων 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 6.20; τοῦ οἷον δόγματος 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 9.69)]; τὴν.. οἷον φάτταν the ring-dove of my parable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 199b.)]
V.2.e οἷον explanatory, that is to say, τὸ νῦν ῥηθησόμενον, οἷον.. what I am about to mention, i.e. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 639b6, compare “GC” 333a11, +others)]; κατὰ τὸ μέσον, οἷον κατὰ τὴν συμβολὴν τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς διαγωνίων in the middle, i. e. at the intersection of their diagonals, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 3.16, compare 22, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus see at {οἰοφάγῳ}, +others)]
V.3 like{ὡς, ἅτε}, with a participle, οἷα ἀπροσδοκήτου κακοῦ γενομένου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5, compare 8.95, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203b.)]
V.4 οὐχ οἷον or μὴ οἷον, followed by ἀλλ᾽ οὐδέ or ἀλλὰ μηδέ, not only not.., but not even.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.12, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.18, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.249 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, etc.)]
VI strengthened with various Particles, οἷος δή, see above 11.4: οἱοσδήποτε, οἱαδήποτε, οἱονδήποτε, of such and such a kind, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1114b17)]; οἱοσδηποτοῦν, of whatever kind, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Geometry texts” 12.30, +others, “BGU” 895.28 (2nd c.AD), 7th c.AD: Paulus Aegineta Medicus 6.88)]; οἱοσδήπως, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“OGI” 521.4 (Abydos, 5th-6th c.AD))]; οἱοσδητισοῦν, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work]515.16 (Mylasa, 3rd c.AD))]; οἱοσοῦν, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 30.7.1)]; οἱοσποτοῦν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 146b26)]; οἱοστισοῦν, see reading in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.76.13. [οῐ is found in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.275, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.312; and sometimes in Trag., as 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1256)], especially in the form οἷός τε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1415, “OC” 262, 803, +others])]