ἡλίκος, ἡλικη, ἡλίκον (ἧλιξ, see ἡλικία), properly, as old as, as tall as; universally, (Latinquantus): how great, Col_2:1; Jas_3:5 (cf. Buttmann, 253 (217)); how small (Lucian, Hermot. 5), ἡλίκον πῦρ, Jas_3:5 L T Tr WH (Buttmann, the passage cited).

ἡλίκος hēlikos 3x as great as; how great, Col_2:1 ; Jas_3:5 (2x)

* ἡλίκος , -η , -ον , 1. prop ., as big as, as old as . 2. As indirect interrog., what sized, what, how great , how small (the sense to be determined by the context): Col_2:1 , Jas_3:5 , Gal_6:11 ( WH , mg .; πηλ -, WH , txt ., RV ).†

ἡλίκος [page 279] P Tebt I. 27 .78 (B.C. 113) (= Chrest. I. p. 390 ) καθόλου δ᾽ ἐνθυμηθεὶς ἡλίκην συμβάλλεται ἡ περὶ τὰ ὑποδεικνύμεν [α ] προσοχὴι τοῖς πράγμασι ῥοπήν , in general consider how great an impulse attention to the matters indicated gives to business (Edd.), Syll 405 .11 (A.D. 145) ἐδήλ [ωσεν ὅσα κα ]ὶ ἡλίκα οἰκοδομήματα προστίθησιν τῇ πόλ [ει . In the medical prescriptions P Oxy VIII. 1088 .42 (early i/A.D.) κολλύρια πόει ἡλίκον Αἰγύπ (τιον ) κύαμον , make pastilles of the size of an Egyptian bean (Ed.), and ib. II. 234 ii. 20 (ii/iii A.D.) ἡλίκον [ὀ ]ρόβῳ , of the size of a pea (Edd.), the context suggests that, as in the case of the Lat. quantus sometimes = quantulus , ἡλίκος from meaning how great has come to mean also how small ; cf. Jas_3:5 .

ἡλίκος ἡλί^κος, η, ον "as big as", Lat. quantus, Ar. , Dem. of age, "as old as", Ar. , etc. in expressions of wonder, θαυμάσια ἡλίκα "extraordinarily great", as in Lat. mirum quantum, Dem. [Etym: from ἧλιξ]

ἡλίκος, -η, -ον __1. prop., as big as, as old as. __2. As indirect interrog., what sized, what, how great, how small (the sense to be determined by the context): Col.2:1, Jas.3:5, Gal.6:11 (WH, mg.; πηλ-, WH, txt., RV).† (AS)