Original Word: ἡλίκος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hélikos
Pronunciation: hay-LEE-kos
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-lee'-kos)
KJV: how (what) great
NASB: how great, such a small
Word Origin: [from helix (a comrade, i.e. one of the same age)]

1. as big as
2. (interjectively) how much

how great.

From helix (a comrade, i.e. One of the same age); as big as, i.e. (interjectively) how much -- how (what) great.

2245 hēlíkos (from hēlix, "adult comrade") – properly, fully grown (adult); (figuratively) "great" by "coming of age," i.e. fully grown ("grown up"). See also 5082 /tēlikoútos ("so great").

Word Origin
akin to root of hélikia
Definition
how great, how small
NASB Translation
how great (2), such a small (1).

STRONGS NT 2245: ἡλίκος

ἡλίκος, ἡλικη, ἡλίκον (ἧλιξ, see ἡλικία), properly, as old as, as tall as; universally, (Latinquantus): how great, Colossians 2:1; James 3:5 (cf. Buttmann, 253 (217)); how small (Lucian, Hermot. 5), ἡλίκον πῦρ, James 3:5 L T Tr WH (Buttmann, the passage cited).

Forms and Transliterations

ηλικην ηλίκην ἡλίκην ηλικον ηλίκον ἡλίκον eliken ēlikēn elikon ēlikon heliken helíken hēlikēn hēlíkēn helikon helíkon hēlikon hēlíkon

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