kathaper · just as

What it means

kathaper (καθάπερ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “just as”.

"Just as", "even as".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Compares two things to say they happen in the same way.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• just as ×10
• as ×2
• like ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×4
• 1 Thessalonians×4
• Hebrews×1

• Romans 4:6

  just as David also speaks of the happiness of the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

• Romans 12:4

  For just as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,

• 1 Corinthians 10:10

  Nor grumble, as some of them grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

• 1 Corinthians 12:12

  For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is the Messiah.

• 2 Corinthians 1:14

  just as you also have understood us in part, that we are your boast, just as you also are ours on the day of our Lord Jesus.

• 2 Corinthians 3:13

  and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not gaze at the end of what was being set aside.

• 2 Corinthians 3:18

  And we all, with unveiled face looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

• 2 Corinthians 8:11

  So now also finish doing it, so that just as there was the eagerness to want it, so also there may be the completing of it out of what you have.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:11

  just as you know how each one of you, like a father his own children,

• 1 Thessalonians 3:6

  But now that Timothy has come to us from you and has brought us the good news of your faith and love, and that you always have a good remembrance of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you,

• 1 Thessalonians 3:12

  And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we also do for you,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:5

  not in the passion of desire, as also the nations do who do not know God;

• Hebrews 4:2

  For we too have had the good news announced to us, just as they did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who heard it.