ὄντως

ὄντως — óntōs

ὄντως (from ὄν; on adverbs formed from participles cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 115 a. Anm. 3; Kühner, § 335 Anm. 2), adverb, truly, in reality, in point of fact, as opposed to what is pretended, fictitious, false, conjectural: Mar 11:32 (see ἔχω, I. 1 f.); Luk 23:47; Luk 24:34; Joh 8:36; 1Co 14:25; Gal 3:21 and Rec. in 2Pe 2:18; ὁ, ἡ, τό ὄντως followed by a noun, that which is truly etc., that which is indeed (τά ὄντως ἀγατα ἤ καλά, P'lat. Phaedr., p. 260 a.; τήν ὄντως καί ἀληθῶς φιλίαν, Plato, Clit., p. 409 e.; οἱ ὄντως βασιλεῖς, Josephus, Antiquities 15, 3, 5): as ἡ ὄντως (Rec. αἰώνιος) ζωή, 1Ti 6:19; ἡ ὄντως χήρα, a widow that is a widow indeed, not improperly called a widow (as παρθένος ἡ λεγομένη χήρα, i. e., a virgin that has taken a vow of celibacy, in Ignatius ad Smyrn. 13 [ET] (cf. Lightfoot, in the place cited); cf. Baur, Die sogen. Pastoralbriefe, p. 46ff), 1Ti 5:3; 1Ti 5:5; 1Ti 5:16. (Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and following; the Sept. for אֻמְנָם, Num 22:37; for אָכֵן, Jer 3:23; for אַך, Jer 10:19.)