Quick Definition
ὅλως Adv wholly, altogether, not at all
Strong's Definition
adverb from 3650; completely, i.e. altogether; (by analogy), everywhere; (negatively) not by any means
KJV Usage: at all, commonly, utterly
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
advb. | ὅλος
78.44 · Degree · Completely, Enough [Completive Degree]
complete, completely, totally, totality a degree of totality or completeness In MAT 5:34 ὅλως should not be interpreted as a qualifier of ὀμόσαι ‘to swear,’ for this is not a matter of ‘not swearing completely,’ but ὅλως is a degree attributive of the proposition ‘do not swear.’ In a number of languages the closest equivalent is ‘do not ever swear’ or ‘under no circumstances whatsoever make an oath.’
1 There may very well be certain significant differences of meaning in this series of degree expressions, but this is difficult, if not impossible, to determine from existing contexts. 2 It would seem that the meanings of items 70.1-70.4 do reflect certain subtle differences, but it is not at all easy to determine precisely how they differ.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὅλως, (ὅλος). adv., wholly, altogether, (Lat. omnino), [with a neg. at all]: Mt. v.34 (with which compare Xen. mem. 1, 2, 85); 1 Co. v. 1 [R. V. actually}; vi. 7; xv. 29. [(Plat., Isocr., al.)]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὅλως holōs 4x
wholly, altogether; actually, really, 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:7; 15:29; with a negative, at all, Mt. 5:34*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὅλως, adv.
(< ὅλος),
altogether, assuredly, actually (c. neg., at all): Mt 5:34, I Co 5:1 6:7 15:29.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὅλως. For ὅλως = ‘‘entirely,” ‘‘altogether,” cf. P Oxy IV. 743% (B.C. 2) καὶ yap ἐγὼ ὅλος (1. ὅλως) διαπον[ο]ῦμαι et” HAevos χαλκοὺς ἀπόλε[ o]ev, “1 am quite upset αἱ Helenos’ loss of the money” (Edd.), and for the meaning “αἱ all” with a neg. verb, as in Mt 584, cf. the letter of a wife to her husband, BGU IV. 10798 (time of Claudius or Nero) περὶ δὲ Σαραπᾶτος τοῦ υἱοῦ οὐ καταλέλυκε παρ᾽ ἐμὲ ὅλως, ἀλλὰ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς παρεμβολὴν στρατεύσασθαι, “but as regards our son Sarapas, he has not lodged with me at all, but has departed to the camp on military duty.’’ The meaning of the adv. in 1 Cor 5" has caused difficulty, but a certain support is lent to the local sense ‘‘everywhere,” which Weiss in Meyer " ad /. prefers (cf. Bachmann in Zahn’s Kommentar), 2 ἐς e , ομίλεω by P Oxy IV. 744! (B.c. 1) (= Selections, p. 32) μὴ ἀγωνιᾷς ἐὰν ὅλως εἰσπορεύονται, ἐγὼ ἐν ᾿Αλεξανδρε -- (-- ᾳ μένω, where ὅλως may perhaps imply all the writer’s fellow-workmen. For the meaning ‘‘actually,” adopted by the Revisers in I Cor /.c., we may cite 76. XIV. 167634 (iii/A.p.) καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις ἐλ[θοῦσ]α τῷ Μεσορὴ πρὸς [ἡμᾶ]ς ἵνα ὅλως ἴδωμέν σε, ““γοι will therefore do well to come to us in Mesore, in order that we may really see you’’ (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὅλως (holōs) — at all. Included with: ὅλος, η, ον, Ionic dialect οὖλος, η, ον, as in [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+]; ὅλος 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 [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.)