Word Summary
hēlikos: how great, how small
Original Word: ἡλίκοςTransliteration: hēlikos
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-lee'-kos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: how great, how small
Meaning: how great, how small
Strong's Concordance
how great.
From helix (a comrade, i.e. One of the same age); as big as, i.e. (interjectively) how much -- how (what) great.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2245: ἡλίκοςἡλίκος,
ἡλικη,
ἡλίκον (
ἧλιξ, see
ἡλικία), properly,
as old as, as tall as; universally, (Latin
quantus):
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).