UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: how extensive, how large, how small

Semantic entry: 79.127

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Large, Small

Definition: an interrogative of size occurring in indirect questions

Sense 2: how, very, how great, how much, intense, severe

Semantic entry: 78.13

Semantic domains: Degree

Subdomains: Much, Little [Positive-Negative Degree]

Definition: a relatively high point on a scale involving exclamation

Notes: In a number of languages an expression of high degree in an exclamation can only be reproduced as an expression of intensive degree in a non-exclamatory form. For example, the statement in RV MAT 6:23 · LV MAT 6:23 · Read together MAT 6:23 ‘how great must the darkness be!’ must be rendered in a number of languages as ‘the darkness is very, very intense’ or ‘it is very, very dark there.’|In a number of languages the equivalent of ἡλίκον ἀγῶνα ἔχω in RV COL 2:1 · LV COL 2:1 · Read together COL 2:1 would be ‘I struggle very much indeed.’