How
Bible Usage:
- how used 543 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 26:9
- Last Reference: Revelation 18:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1963 Used 2 times
- H335 Used 1 time
- H349 Used 79 times
- H3588 Used 12 times
- H4069 Used 1 time
- H4100 Used 57 times
- H4101 Used 2 times
- H4480 Used 1 time
- H5704 Used 2 times
- H5921 Used 1 time
- H6485 Used 1 time
- H834 Used 30 times
- G2531 Used 1 time
- G3704 Used 4 times
- G3754 Used 14 times
- G4459 Used 99 times
- G5101 Used 9 times
- G5613 Used 19 times
HOW, adverb In what manner. I know not how to answer.
HOW can a man be born when he is old?
HOW can these things be? John 3:4.
1. To what degree or extent. how long shall we suffer these indignities? how much better is wisdom than gold!
O how love I thy law! how sweet are thy words to my taste. Psalms 119:84.
2. For what reason; from what cause.
HOW now, my love, why is your cheek so pale?
3. By what means. how can this effect by produced?
4. In what state.
HOW, and with what reproach shall I return!
5. It is used in a sense marking proportion; as how much less; how much more.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants--how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay-- Job 4:19.
By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility and fountains and rivers of the earth.
6. It is much used in exclamation.
HOW are the mighty fallen! 2 Samuel 1:4.
7. In some popular phrases, how is superfluous or inelegant.
Thick clouds put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown.
Bible Usage:
- how used 543 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 26:9
- Last Reference: Revelation 18:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1963 Used 2 times
- H335 Used 1 time
- H349 Used 79 times
- H3588 Used 12 times
- H4069 Used 1 time
- H4100 Used 57 times
- H4101 Used 2 times
- H4480 Used 1 time
- H5704 Used 2 times
- H5921 Used 1 time
- H6485 Used 1 time
- H834 Used 30 times
- G2531 Used 1 time
- G3704 Used 4 times
- G3754 Used 14 times
- G4459 Used 99 times
- G5101 Used 9 times
- G5613 Used 19 times