Dictionaries :: Thus

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Thus:

"in this way, so, thus," is used

(a) with reference to what precedes, e.g., Luk 1:25; 2:48;

(b) with reference to what follows, e.g., Luk 19:31, rendered "on this wise," in Mat 1:18; Jhn 21:1, and before quotations, Act 7:6; 13:34; Rom 10:6, AV (RV, "thus"); Hbr 4:4;

(c) marking intensity, rendered "so," e.g., Gal 1:6; Hbr 2:21; Rev 16:18;

(d) in comparisons, rendered "so," e.g., Luk 11:30; Rom 5:15.
See FASHION, B, LIKEWISE, Note (1), MANNER, C, No. 2, SO, Note (1).

Notes:

(1) Touto, the neuter of houtos, "this," is transalted "thus" in 2Cr 1:17; 5:14; Phl 3:15; the neuter plural, tauta, "these things," e.g., in Luk 18:11; 19:28; Jhn 9:6; 11:43; 13:21; 20:14; Act 19:41.

(2) Tade, these things (the neuter plural of hode, "this"), is translated "thus" in Act 21:11.

(3) In Luk 17:30, AV, kata tauta, lit., "according to these things," is rendered "thus" (RV, "after the same manner," follows the reading kata ta auta, lit., "according to the same things").