The corpus record

καθώς

kathos

even as, how, as, when

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Where it lives

3 John 2 · 92.59/10k
1 Thessalonians 13 · 89.41/10k
2 John 2 · 82.64/10k
1 John 9 · 42.33/10k
Ephesians 10 · 41.53/10k
Colossians 5 · 32.28/10k
1 Corinthians 19 · 28.13/10k
2 Corinthians 12 · 26.76/10k
Susanna (LXX) 2 · 26.18/10k
2 Thessalonians 2 · 24.78/10k
Osee 9 · 23.87/10k
Romans 16 · 22.81/10k

Densest 12 of 65 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καθώς · kathōs — LSJ

even as

= καθά, Hdt. 9.82 codd., Arist. Pr. 891b34, IG 5(2).344.20 (Arc., iii B.C.), Wilcken Chr. 11 A 53 (ii B. C.), IG 2(2).1030.22 (i B. C.), al.; even as, Ev.Jo. 15.12.

2 how

how, ὑπομιμνῄσκειν κ. . . Aristeas 263, cf. Act.Ap. 15.12.

II as, when

of Time, as, when, ib. 7.17, LXX 2 Ma. 1.31, Aristeas 310. (Condemned by Phryn. 397, Moer. 212.)

In the wild

καθὼς · kathōs Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 124)
καθὼς · kathōs Herodotus, Histories 9.82.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9859)
καθὼς · kathōs New Testament, 1 Corinthians 1.30 (DIORISIS sentence 27)
καθὼς · kathōs New Testament, 1 Corinthians 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3)
καθὼς · kathōs New Testament, 1 Corinthians 10.32 (DIORISIS sentence 306)
καθὼς · kathōs New Testament, 1 Corinthians 10.6 (DIORISIS sentence 269)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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