How
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Represents various Hebrew and Greek words, interrogative, interjectional and relative. Its different uses refer to (1) The manner or way , e.g. Genesis 44:34 , "How shall I go up to my father?" ( ēkh ); Matthew 6:28 , "how they grow" ( pō̇s ); 1 Corinthians 15:35 , "How are the dead raised?"; (2) degree , extent , frequently, "how great" ( Daniel 4:3 , māh ; Mark 5:19 , hósos , "how much"); "how many" ( Matthew 27:13 , pósos ); "how much" ( Acts 9:13 , hosos ); "how much more" ( Matthew 7:11 , posos ; 1 Samuel 14:30 , 'aph kı̄ ); "how oft" ( Psalm 78:40 , kammāh ; Matthew 18:21 , posákis ); "how long" ( Job 7:19 , kammāh ; Matthew 17:17 , héōs póte ), etc.; (3) the reason , wherefore, etc. ( Matthew 18:12; Luke 12:49 , tis ); (4) means - by what means? ( John 3:4 , John 3:9 , pō̇s ); (5) cause ( John 12:34; Acts 2:8; Acts 4:21 , pōs ); (6) condition , in what state, etc. ( Luke 23:55 , hōs ; Acts 15:36 , pōs ; Ephesians 6:21 , tis ); "how" is sometimes used to emphasize a statement or exclamation ( 2 Samuel 1:19 , 2 Samuel 1:25 , 2 Samuel 1:27 , "How are the mighty fallen!"); "how" is also used for "that" ( Genesis 30:29 , 'ēth 'ăsher , frequently "how that"; Exodus 9:29 , kı̄ most frequently, in the New Testament, hóti , Matthew 12:5; Matthew 16:12 , Matthew 16:21; Acts 7:25; Romans 7:1 , etc., in the King James Version).
The Revised Version (British and American) has "wherefore" for "how" ( Genesis 38:29 , margin "how"); has "what" ( Judges 13:12; 1 Kings 12:6; Job 13; 1 Corinthians 14:26 ), omits ( 2 Corinthians 13:5 ); has "how that" ( 1 Samuel 2:22 ); "that" ( 1 Chronicles 18:9; Luke 1:58; Galatians 4:13; James 2:22; Revelation 2:2 ); has "that even" for "how that" ( Hebrews 12:17 );" What is this?" for "How is it that?" ( Luke 16:2 ); omits" How is it ?" ( Mark 2:16 , different text); has "Do ye not yet," for "How is it that?" ( Mark 8:21 ); "Have ye not yet" ( Mark 4:40 , different text); "what" for "how much" ( Luke 19:15 , different text); omits "how that" ( Luke 7:22 ); "then how" ( James 2:24 ); has "cannot" for "How can he" ( 1 John 4:20 ); omits "How hast thou" ( Job 26:3 ), "how is" ( Jeremiah 51:41 ); has "how" for "the fashion which" ( Genesis 6:15 ), for "and" ( Exodus 18:1 ), for "what" ( Judges 18:24; 1 Samuel 4:16; 1 Corinthians 7:16 ), for "why" ( Job 19:28; Job 31:1; Jeremiah 2:33; Galatians 2:14 ), for "when" ( Job 37:15 ), for "for" ( Psalm 42:4 ), for "but God" ( Proverbs 21:12 ), for "whereunto" ( Mark 4:30 ); for "by what means" ( Luke 8:36; John 9:21 ), for "how greatly" ( Philippians 1:8 ); "how that" for "because" ( Ezekiel 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:5 ), for "and how" ( Acts 20:20 ); "know how to" for "can" ( Matthew 16:3 ); "how" for "by whom" ( Amos 7:2 , Amos 7:5 ).
"How" in compounds gives us Howbeit (how be it). It is the translation of 'ūlām , "but," "truly," "yet" ( Judges 18:29 ); of 'akh , "certainly," "only" ( 1 Samuel 8:9 ); of 'epheṣ , "moreover," etc. ( 2 Samuel 12:14 ); of kēn , "so," "thus" ( 2 Chronicles 32:31 ); of raḳ , "only," "surely" "nevertheless" ( 1 Kings 11:13 ); of allá , "but," etc. ( John 7:27; Acts 7:48; 1 Corinthians 8:7 , etc.); of dé , "but," etc. ( John 6:23 ); of méntoi ( John 7:13 the King James Version); many other instances.
For "howbeit," the Revised Version (British and American) has frequently "but" ( 2 Kings 12:13 , etc.), "and" ( 2 Chronicles 21:20; Mark 5:19 ), "surely" (ERV) ( Job 30:24 ), "now" ( John 11:13 ), "yet" ( 2 Corinthians 11:21 ), "nay, did" ( Hebrews 3:16 ); omits ( Matthew 17:21 , different text); it has "howbeit" for "but" ( 2 Kings 12:3; Luke 19:27; John 5:34 , etc.), for "also" ( Leviticus 23:27 , Leviticus 23:39 ), for "nevertheless" ( Numbers 13:28; 1 Kings 22:43; Mark 14:36; Luke 13:33 the English Revised Version; Luke 18:8; 2 Timothy 2:19 ), for "notwithstanding" ( Joshua 22:19; Luke 10:20 the English Revised Version, "nevertheless" the American Standard Revised Version; Phil ( Luke 4:14 ), for "nay" ( Romans 7:7 ).
Howsoever (in what manner soever, although, however) is the translation of kōl 'ăsher , "all that which," etc. ( Zephaniah 3:7 , "howsoever I punished them," the Revised Version (British and American) "according to all that I have appointed concerning her," margin "howsoever I have punished her"; the English Revised Version omits "have"); of raḳ , "only," "surely," "nevertheless" ( Judges 19:20 ); of yehı̄ - māh , "let be what" ( 2 Samuel 18:22 , 2 Samuel 18:23 , the Revised Version (British and American) "but come what may"); in 2 Samuel 24:3 "how" and "soever" are separated ( kāhēm ), "how many soever they may be," literally, "as they and as they."
