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Strong's G2470 ἴσος (isos)

Isos means “as much” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2470 — chalah (“beseech”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2470
Language Greek
Linked Usages 41
Books 18

Strong's G2470 Quick Answer

Strong's G2470 ἴσος (isos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. isos (ee'-sos) adj. 1. similar (in amount and kind) [probably from G1492 (through the idea of seeming)] It has 41 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include agree and much. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
isos (ee'-sos) adj. 1. similar (in amount and kind) [probably from G1492 (through the idea of seeming)]
Usage
41 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
agree and much

Meaning and Definition

isos (ee'-sos) adj. 1. similar (in amount and kind) [probably from G1492 (through the idea of seeming)] KJV: + agree, as much, equal, like Root(s): G1492

Original Word
ἴσος
Transliteration
isos
Derivation
Root: εἴδω R1: 1492
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2470. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

equal

Usage: ἴσος (epic ἶσος, so sometimes Rec.), -η, -ον, [in LXX for כְּ֜, Jb 5:14; Job.10:10, al.; אֶחָד, Eze.40:5 ff.; 2Ma.9:15, 4Ma.13:20-21, al. ;] equal, the same in size, number, quality, etc.: δωρεά, Act.11:17; μαρτυρίαι, Mrk.14:56, 59; ἴ. ποιεῖν, with accusative and dative, Mat.20:12; ἑαυτὸν τ. θεῷ, Jhn.5:18; τὰ ἴ. ἀπολαβεῖν, Luk.6:34, n. pl., ἴσα, adverbially, Rev.21:16; τ. θεῷ, Php.2:6.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2470 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render isos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

agree Mark 14:59 much Luke 6:34

How Strong's G2470 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 26 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2470 (ἴσος) appears 40 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2470 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2470 in the New Testament

8 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 20:12 KJV

Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Mark 14:56 KJV

For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

Mark 14:59 KJV

But neither so did their witness agree together.

Strong's G2470 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

26 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 5:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Exodus 26:24 Septuagint / Brenton

And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal.

Exodus 30:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord said to Moses, Take for thyself sweet herbs, stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum, and transparent frankincense; there shall be an equal weight of each.

Strong's G2470 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 9:15 Septuagint / Brenton

and as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens:

4 Maccabees 13:20 Septuagint / Brenton

In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,

4 Maccabees 13:21 Septuagint / Brenton

and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same fountains, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;

Usage Excerpts

First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2470.

Genesis 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Exodus 26:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal.
Exodus 30:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Take for thyself sweet herbs, stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum, and transparent frankincense; there shall be an equal weight of each.
Leviticus 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every sacrifice made up with oil, or not made up with oil, shall belong to the sons of Aaron, an equal portion to each.
Numbers 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
Deuteronomy 13:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thy brother by thy father or mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife in thy bosom, or friend who is equal to thine own soul, entreat thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known,
Job 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the day darkness shall come upon them, And let them grope in the noonday even as in the night:
Job 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hast thou not poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Job 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But man vainly buoys himself up with words; And a mortal born of woman is like an ass of the desert.
Job 13:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, And your body like a body of clay.
Job 13:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, Or like a moth-eaten garment.
Job 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, Drinking unrighteousness as a draft.
Job 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then is his sin brought to remembrance, And he vanishes like a vapor of dew: But let what he has done be recompensed to him, And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
Job 27:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Even if he should gather silver as earth, And prepare gold as clay;
Job 28:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For iron comes out of the earth, And brass is hewn out like stone.
Job 29:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also I put on righteousness, And clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.
Job 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast counted me as clay; My portion is in dust and ashes.
Job 40:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But now look at the wild beasts with thee; They eat grass like oxen.
Job 41:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will not be silent because of him: Though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.
Isaiah 51:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.
Ezekiel 40:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man’s hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.
Ezekiel 40:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.
Ezekiel 40:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits.
Ezekiel 40:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.
Ezekiel 41:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;
Ezekiel 45:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the homer shall be the choenix, and the tenth of the homer shall be in fair proportion to the homer.
Matthew 20:12 New Testament, KJV
Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Mark 14:56 New Testament, KJV
For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
Mark 14:59 New Testament, KJV
But neither so did their witness agree together.
Luke 6:34 New Testament, KJV
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
John 5:18 New Testament, KJV
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Acts 11:17 New Testament, KJV
Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
Philippians 2:6 New Testament, KJV
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Revelation 21:16 New Testament, KJV
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
2 Maccabees 9:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens:
4 Maccabees 13:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,
4 Maccabees 13:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same fountains, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;
Wisdom of Solomon 7:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, And the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,
Wisdom of Solomon 7:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, And fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, And the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the ungodly and his ungodliness are both alike hateful unto God.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2470, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2470 FAQ

What does isos (ἴσος) mean?

Isos (Strong's G2470) is a Greek word most simply glossed "as much". isos (ee'-sos) adj. 1. similar (in amount and kind) [probably from G1492 (through the idea of seeming)]

How many times is isos (ἴσος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's G2470 across 18 books.

Where can I study isos (ἴσος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2470 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate isos (ἴσος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as agree and much. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2470 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 26 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2470, with linked reader references where each row is available.