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ohios marks the kind, character, or correspondence of a person, event, or condition, including comparisons of unmatched extent.
The term most often marks correspondence or identifies what kind of person, experience, or condition is in view; in several scenes it intensifies the comparison by describing an event or appearance as without precedent.
Senses in use
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Corresponding kind, character, or condition · dominant
The relative forms connect persons or circumstances by likeness or correspondence: in 1 Corinthians 15:48 the APB renders the parallel between the man of dust and those of dust, and between the man of heaven and those of heaven. In 1 Thessalonians 1:5 the clause concerns what sort the speakers proved themselves to be, while 2 Corinthians 10:11 contrasts what they are in letters with what they will be in deed. Philippians 1:30 likewise places the readers' struggle alongside the struggle seen and heard in Paul.
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Comparison of unprecedented extent or quality · common
In Mark 13:19 and Matthew 24:21, the nominative singular feminine form occurs with tribulation or pressure described as not having occurred from creation or the world's beginning. Mark 9:3 applies a neuter plural form to clothing whose whiteness no bleacher can match, and Revelation 16:18 describes an earthquake as one that had not occurred since humans came to be.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the comparison with phrases such as "what sort," "such as," "as," and "so great as." These are verse-level renderings rather than fixed word-by-word equivalents.