Word Summary
holos: whole, complete
Original Word: ὅλοςTransliteration: holos
Phonetic Spelling: (hol'-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: whole, complete
Meaning: whole, complete
Strong's Concordance
all, altogether, whole.
A primary word; "whole" or "all", i.e. Complete (in extent, amount, time or degree), especially (neuter) as noun or adverb -- all, altogether, every whit, + throughout, whole.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3650: ὅλοςὅλος,
ὅλῃ,
ὅλον, the
Sept. for
כָּל (from
Pindar (
Homer) down),
whole (all): with an anarthrous substantive five (six) times in the N. T., viz.
ὅλον ἄνθρωπον,
John 7:23;
ἐνιαυτόν ὅλον,
Acts 11:26;
ὅλῃ Ἱερουσαλήμ,
; διετίαν ὅλην, ; ὅλους οἴκους, Titus 1:11; (to which add, δἰ ὅλης νυκτός, Luke 5:5 L T Tr WH). usually placed before a substantive which has the article: ὅλῃ ἡ Γαλιλαία, Matthew 4:23; ὅλῃ ἡ Συρία, ; καθ' ὅλην τήν πόλιν, Luke 8:39; ὅλον τό σῶμα, Matthew 5:29; Matthew 6:22; Luke 11:34; 1 Corinthians 12:17; James 3:2, etc.; (ὅλῃ ἡ ἐκκλησία, Romans 16:23 L T Tr WH); ὅλην τήν ἡμέραν, Matthew 20:6; Romans 8:36; ὅλος ὁ νόμος, Matthew 22:40; Galatians 5:3; James 2:10; ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ καρδία σου, Matthew 22:37; ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας σου, Mark 12:30, and many other examples it is placed after a substantive which has the article (Winers Grammar, 131 (124) note; Buttmann, § 125, 6): ἡ πόλις ὅλῃ, Mark 1:33; Acts 19:29 (Rec.); — (the distinction which Krüger, § 50,11, 7 makes, viz. that ἡ ὅλῃ πόλις denotes the whole city as opposed to its parts, but that ὅλῃ ἡ πόλις and ἡ πόλις ἡ ὅλῃ denotes the whole city in opposed to other ideas, as the country, the fields, etc., does not hold good at least for the N. T. where even in ἡ πόλις ὅλῃ the city is opposed only to its parts); add the following examples: Matthew 16:26; Matthew 26:59; Luke 9:25; Luke 11:36a; John 4:53; Romans 16:23 (R G); 1 John 5:19; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 6:12 G L T Tr WH; . It is subjoined to an adjective or a verb to show that the idea expressed by the adjective or verb belongs to the whole person or thing under consideration: Matthew 13:33; Luke 11:36b; Luke 13:21; John 9:34; John 13:10, (Xenophon, mem. 2, 6, 28). Neuter τοῦτο δέ ὅλον, Matthew 1:22; Matthew 21:4 (where G L T Tr WH omit ὅλον); ; δἰ ὅλου, throughout, John 19:23.