Strong's G5616 ὡσεί (hosei)

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the surrounding country, and saw, and behold a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bowshot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.

And her brethren and her mother said, Let the virgin remain with us about ten days, and after that she shall depart.

And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.

And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as a harlot?

And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

Dan shall judge his people, As one tribe too in Israel.

And the Lord said again to him, Put thy hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom, and brought his hand out of his bosom, and his hand became as snow.

He covered them with the sea: They sank to the depth like a stone.

And by the breath of thine anger the water parted asunder; The waters were congealed as a wall, The waves were congealed in the midst of the sea.

Thou sentest forth thy wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty water.

in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.

Ye have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles’ wings, and I brought you near to myself.

And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and under his feet was as it were a work of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.

And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.

And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.

And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.

And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and ye shall not be able to withstand your enemies.

And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoarfrost.

And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.

Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou sworest to their fathers?

And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.

And the cloud departed from the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

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.

And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.

And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

As shady groves, And as gardens by a river, And as tents which God pitched, And as cedars by the waters.

who shall go out before them, and who shall come in before them, and who shall lead them out, and who shall bring them in; so the congregation of the Lord shall not be as sheep without a shepherd.

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are today as the stars of heaven for multitude.

And your sin which ye had made, even the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

For the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:

And thou shalt grope at midday, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

The Lord shall bring upon thee a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice thou shalt not understand;

And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God.

And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.

Let my speech be looked for as the rain, And my words come down as dew, As the shower upon the herbage, And as snow upon the grass.

And when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped in part of the water of Jordan (now Jordan overflowed all its banks about the time of wheat harvest):

And there went up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Ai.

then they were greatly terrified by them, for the king knew that Gibeon was a great city, as one of the chief cities, and all its men were mighty.

I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.

And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord shall be with thee, and thou shalt smite Midian as one man.

And Midian and Amalek and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

And Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their host was with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the host of the aliens; and they that fell were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.

And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he crushed him as he would have crushed a kid of the goats, and there was nothing in his hands: and he told not his father and his mother what he had done.

And they came to Lehi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burned with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.

And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men.

And the staff of his spear was like a weavers’ beam, and the spear’s head was formed of six hundred shekels of iron; and his armor bearer went before him.

And the Philistine said to David, Am I as a dog, that thou comest against me with a staff and stones? and David said, Nay, but worse than a dog. And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

And Jonathan called David, and told him all these words; and Jonathan brought David in to Saul, and he was before him as in former times.

And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord smote Nabal, and he died.

And there were there the three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as a roe in the field.

And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to meet them: and Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of goats, but Syria filled the land.

And they rose early in the morning, and the sun rose upon the waters, and Moab saw the waters on the opposite side red as blood.

The leprosy also of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

As for the earth, out of it shall come bread: Under it has been turned up as it were fire.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, And dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, And like a lion’s whelp dwelling in secret places.

I am poured out like water, And all my bones are loosened: My heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.

I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

Let them be as dust before the wind, And an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, Thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, And shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

For the sinners shall perish; And the enemies of the Lord at the moment of their being honored and exalted Have utterly vanished like smoke.

For my transgressions have gone over my head: They have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; And was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

And I was as a man that hears not, And who has no reproofs in his mouth.

They that reward evil for good slandered me; Because I followed righteousness.

Behold, thou hast made my days old; And my existence is as nothing before thee: Nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; Like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God Forever, even for evermore.

And I said, O that I had wings as those of a dove! Then would I flee away, and be at rest.

Their venom is like that of a serpent; As that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: The fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, He shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; And my joyful lips shall praise thy name.

I am become as it were a wonder to many; But thou art my strong helper.

He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; And as drops falling upon the earth.

There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: The fruit thereof shall be exalted above Lebanon, And they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

He clove the sea, and led them through: He made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

And he rained upon them flesh like dust, And feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, Who guidest Joseph like a flock; Thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

They were utterly destroyed at En-dor: They became as dung for the earth.

As fire which shall burn up a wood, As the flame may consume the mountains;

free among the dead, As the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; Whom thou rememberest no more; And they are rejected from thy hand.

Years shall be vanity to them: Let the morning pass away as grass.

The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree: He shall be increased as the cedar in Lebanon.

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

For my days have vanished like smoke, And my bones have been parched like a stick.

I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become As a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, And mingled my drink with weeping;

My days have declined like a shadow; And I am withered like grass.

They shall perish, but thou remainest: And they all shall wax old as a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.

As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

Who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; Spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, And it is come as water into his bowels, And as oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, And as a girdle with which he girds himself continually.

I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

The mountains skipped like rams, And the hills like lambs.

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, And ye hills, like lambs?

They compassed me about as bees do a honeycomb, And they burst into flame as fire among thorns: But in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; So are the children of those who were outcasts.

They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, Our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

Man is like to vanity: His days pass as a shadow.

He gives snow like wool: He scatters the mist like ashes.

Casting forth his ice like morsels: Who shall stand before his cold?

She is like a ship trading from a distance: So she procures her livelihood.

Who is this that looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, choice as the sun, Terrible as armies set in array?

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.

Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.

Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.

Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel?