Lexical Definition

‎ὅλως‎ hólōs (hol'-oce) at all ^G:ADV
adverb from ‎ὅλος‎

at all, commonly, utterly.

• completely, i.e. altogether
• (by analogy), everywhere
• (negatively) not by any means

Abbott-Smith

ὅλως, adv. (< ὅλος),
altogether, assuredly, actually (c. neg., at all): Mt 5:34, I Co 5:1 6:7 15:29.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

Included with: ὅλως, η, ον,

Ionic dialect οὖλος, η, ον, as in [ὅλως in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.126, 4.64, 7.167, 8.113 ">Refs 8th c.BC+] (compare ἡμι-ολίας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅλως uncertain in [Refs 6th c.BC+]:—whole, entire, complete in all its parts, of persons and things, ἄρτος οὖλος a whole loaf, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; μηνὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὔλῳ in a whole month, [Refs]; οὖλος ὁρᾷ, οὖλος δὲ νοεῖ, οὖλος δέ τ᾽ ἀκούει (i.e. ὁ θεός) [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὅλως ἑσπέρας ὀφθαλμός, i.e. the full moon, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ὅ. χρόνος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ὤμοις ὅλην πόλιν φέρων a whole city, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλεις ὅλαι whole, entire cities, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅλη ἡ πόλις, the city as a whole, [Refs]; ὅλους ποιητὰς ἐκμανθάνειν learn whole poets by heart, [Refs] substantive, τῆς ἡμέρας ὅλης in the course of the whole day, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅλην τὴν νύκτα or τὴν νύκτα ὅλην, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: less frequently between Article and substantive, τὸν ὅ. ἀμφὶ χρόνον [ὅλως πρὸς τῷ λήμματι καὶ τῷ δωροδοκήματι, ὥστε.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.127); τὸ ὅ. αὐτοῖς ἦν καὶ τὸ πᾶν Ἀπελλῆς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.26.5. ">Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 whole, i. e. safe and sound, ὑγιὴς καὶ ὅ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 entire, utter, ὅ. ἁμάρτημα an utter blunder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλάσμα ὅ. ἐστὶν ἡ διαθήκη utter fiction, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 neuter as adverb, ὅλον or τὸ ὅ. wholly, entirely, διαφέρει ὅ. τε καὶ πᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+] on the whole, generally, opposed to ἀπολαβὼν μέρος τι, [Refs]; δι᾽ ὅλου, καθ᾽ ὅλου (see. διόλου, καθόλου); αἱ κράσεις δι᾽ ὅλων [Refs 1st c.AD+]generally speaking, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ δ᾽ ὅ. and in general, in short, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οὐδὲ Φιλόξενον ὅλ᾽ ἐξ ὅλων εὗρον I have entirely failed to find P., [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__5 ={πᾶς}, all, ὅλων στρατηγός [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅλη πόλις every city, [LXX]; πρὸ τῶν ὅ. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ before all things, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἀσπάζομαι.. πάντας τοὺς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ὅ. κατ᾽ ὄνομα [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II as substantive, τὸ ὅ. the universe, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; differing from τὸ πᾶν, as implying a definite order, [Refs 5th c.BC+] {ὁλοσηρικοπράτης} (but as not including void, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 τὰ ὅ. one's all, τὰ ὅ. πεπρακέναι [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῖς ὅ. ἡττᾶσθαι lose one's all, be utterly ruined, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τοῖς ὅ., ={ὅλως}, altogether, Philipp. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]: with negative, not at all, [Refs 1st c.BC+].; τοῖς ὅ. ἠφάνισαν utterly destroyed it, [Refs 1st c.AD+].; κινδυνεύει τῷ ὅ. ἐξαρθῆναι there is a risk of its being entirely carried away, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III adverb ὅλως (Doric dialect οὔλως [Refs 5th c.AD+] wholly, altogether, ὅ. σοφόν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅ. ψεύδεται he speaks utter falsehood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 on the whole, speaking generally, in short, ὅ. δ᾽ οὐδεὶς ἔστιν ὅντιν᾽ οὐ πεφενάκικ᾽ ἐκεῖνος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί οὖν κωλύει πάντα ἀφῃρῆσθαι καὶ ὅ. τὴν πολιτεία; [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.3 frequently with a negative (first in [Refs 6th c.BC+] not at all, ὅ. μὴ διαλέγεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.4 actually, really, καλῶς ποιήσεις ἐλθοῦσα.. πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἵνα ὅ. ἴδωμέν σε [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; so perhaps in [NT+5th c.BC+] *sólwos, cf. Sanskrit sárvas 'whole', and perhaps Latin salus, salvus.)

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: LXX.1Kgs.14.23 ☩ 1Cor.5.1}