2245. hélikos

Strong's Concordance

hélikos: how great, how small

Original Word: ἡλίκος, η, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hélikos
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-lee'-kos)
Definition: how great, how small
Usage: of which size, of what size, how small, how much.

HELPS Word-studies

2245 hēlíkos (from hēlix, "adult comrade") – properly, fully grown (adult); (figuratively) "great" by "coming of age," i.e. fully grown ("grown up"). See also 5082 /tēlikoútos ("so great").

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
akin to root of hélikia
Definition
how great, how small
NASB Translation
how great (2), such a small (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 2245: ἡλίκος

ἡλίκος, ἡλικη, ἡλίκον (ἧλιξ, see ἡλικία), properly, as old as, as tall as; universally, (Latinquantus): how great, Colossians 2:1; James 3:5 (cf. Buttmann, 253 (217)); how small (Lucian, Hermot. 5), ἡλίκον πῦρ, James 3:5 L T Tr WH (Buttmann, the passage cited).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

how great.

From helix (a comrade, i.e. One of the same age); as big as, i.e. (interjectively) how much -- how (what) great.

Forms and Transliterations

ηλικην ηλίκην ἡλίκην ηλικον ηλίκον ἡλίκον eliken ēlikēn elikon ēlikon heliken helíken hēlikēn hēlíkēn helikon helíkon hēlikon hēlíkon

Englishman's Concordance

Colossians 2:1 Adj-AMS
GRK: ὑμᾶς εἰδέναι ἡλίκον ἀγῶνα ἔχω
NAS: you to know how great a struggle
KJV: knew what great conflict
INT: you to know how great conflict I have

James 3:5 Adj-NNS
GRK: αὐχεῖ ἰδοὺ ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην
NAS: See how great
KJV: Behold, how great a matter
INT: boasts Behold a little fire how large

James 3:5 Adj-AFS
GRK: ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει
NAS: See how great a forest is set aflame
INT: a little fire how large a forest it kindles

Strong's Greek 2245
3 Occurrences

ἡλίκην — 1 Occ.
ἡλίκον — 2 Occ.