Hosios means “holily” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3743 — kerub (“Cherub”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3743 ὁσίως (hosios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hosios (hos-ee'-oce) adv. 1. piously [adverb from G3741] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include holily. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
hosios (hos-ee'-oce) adv. 1. piously [adverb from G3741] KJV: holily Root(s): G3741
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3743. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
devoutly
Usage: ὁσίως (ὅσιος), adv., [in LXX: 3Ki.8:61, Wis.6:10 * ;] piously, holily: ὁ. καὶ δικαίως κ. ἀμέμπτως (on the distinction here between these synonyms, see M, Th., 24 f.), 1Th.2:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hosios, 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.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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.
Strong's G3743 (ὁσίως) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy: And they that have learned such things shall find what to answer.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3743.
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy: And they that have learned such things shall find what to answer.
shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3743, grouped by book.
Hosios (Strong's G3743) is a Greek word most simply glossed "holily". hosios (hos-ee'-oce) adv. 1. piously [adverb from G3741]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G3743 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3743 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as holily. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3743, with linked reader references where each row is available.