οἷος

οἷος, α, ον relative pron. (Hom.+) pert. to being similar to someth. or belonging to a class, of what sort (such) οἷος … τοιοῦτος as … so (Oenomaus in Eus., PE 5, 27, 5; Sir 49:14) 1 Cor 15:48ab; 2 Cor 10:11. τὸν αὐτὸν ἀγῶνα … οἷον εἴδετε the same struggle … as you saw (οἷον refers to significance, as GDI 4999 II, 10 [Crete] θάνατος οἷος διακωλυσεῖ=an instance of death whose significance hinders) in its severity Phil 1:30. οἷοι ἐτέθησαν τοιοῦτοι καὶ ἦσαν Hs 9, 4, 6; cp. 9, 8, 1; 9, 17, 2. μὴ … γενηθῇς τοιοῦτος, οἵους ἀκούομεν you are not … to become like those of whom we hear, that B 10, 8.—The correlative can oft. be supplied fr. the context (POxy 278, 18; PRyl 154, 28; Gen 44:15; Jos., Ant. 10, 13): θλῖψις, οἵα οὐ γέγονεν Mt 24:21 (Da 12:1 Theod.); Mk 9:3; 2 Cor 12:20ab; 2 Ti 3:11a; Rv 16:18 (cp. Da 12:1 LXX and Theod.: the latter smooths the text with a redundant θλῖψις). ὑγιὲς ἦν οἷον καὶ ἑωράκειν αὐτό the (tree) was as healthy as I had (earlier) seen it Hs 8, 1, 3; cp. 8, 3, 8; 8, 4, 6; 9, 17, 5. The pleonastic θλῖψις, οἵα οὐ γέγονεν τοιαύτη Mk 13:19 is to be explained on the basis of Hebr. In an indir. quest. (Epict. 4, 6, 4; Maximus Tyr. 18, 4e) Lk 9:55 v.l.; 1 Th 1:5; how great GPt 7:25; 2 Cl 10:4. In exclamations (Tat. 22, 1; B-D-F §304) οἵους διωγμοὺς ὑπήνεγκα what persecutions I endured! 2 Ti 3:11b.—οὐχ οἷον ὅτι Ro 9:6 is a mixture of οὐχ οἷον (Hellenistic=οὐ δή που ‘by no means’ [Alexis Com., Fgm. 201 Kock πέτεται, οὐχ οἷον βαδίζει; Diod S 1, 83, 4 οὐχ οἷον … , τοὐναντίον ‘by no means … , on the contrary’; Field, Notes 158]; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 238; s. Phryn. p. 372 Lob.; B-D-F §304; Rob. 732) and οὐχ ὅτι ‘not as if’ (B-D-F 480, 5; Rob. 1034).—οἱοσδηποτοῦν, also written οἷος δή ποτʼ οὖν (Vett. Val. p. 339, 26; 354, 23; BGU 895, 28 [II A.D.] οἵῳ δήποτε οὖν τρόπῳ; Just., D. 125, 2 οἱανδηποτοῦν), is found only in the textually doubtful vs. J 5:3 [4] v.l.: οἵῳ δηποτοῦν κατείχετο νοσήματι no matter what disease he had.—DELG. M-M.