"can function as an adverb, even as, just as, Rom. 3:4; 4:6; 9:13; 10:15; 11:8; 12:4; 1 Cor. 10:10; 12:12; 2 Cor. 1:14; 3:13, 18; 8:11; 1 Thess. 2:11; 3:6, 12; 4:5; Heb. 4:2*"
Definition and meaning
can function as an adverb, even as, just as, Rom. 3:4; 4:6; 9:13; 10:15; 11:8; 12:4; 1 Cor. 10:10; 12:12; 2 Cor. 1:14; 3:13, 18; 8:11; 1 Thess. 2:11; 3:6, 12; 4:5; Heb. 4:2*
In the original Greek the word is written: καθάπερ
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of kathaper (G2509) across the King James Bible.
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
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Common questions
Strong's G2509 (kathaper) is a Greek word that means: can function as an adverb, even as, just as, Rom. 3:4; 4:6; 9:13; 10:15; 11:8; 12:4; 1 Cor. 10:10; 12:12; 2 Cor. 1:14; 3:13, 18; 8:11; 1 Thess. 2:11; 3:6, 12; 4:5; Heb. 4:2* It appears 13 times in the King James Bible.
The word kathaper (G2509) appears 13 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G2509 is kathaper, a Greek word defined as: can function as an adverb, even as, just as, Rom. 3:4; 4:6; 9:13; 10:15; 11:8; 12:4; 1 Cor. 10:10; 12:12; 2 Cor. 1:14; 3:13, 18; 8:11; 1 Thess. 2:11; . James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
kathaper is a Greek word found in the New Testament.