Strong G4214πόσος
how much/many?
- Transliteration
- posos
- Pronunciation
- pos'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Correlative or Interrogative
Definition
From an obsolete pos (who what) and G3739; interrogitive pronoun (of amount) how much (large long or [plural] many): - how great (long many) what.
Detailed definition
πόσος, -η, -ον
adj. of number, magnitude, degree, etc.,
how much, how great, how many: Mat.6:23, 2Co.7:11; of time, Mrk.9:21; neut., absol., Luk.16:5, 7; dative, πόσῳ, adverbially, how much, Mat.12:12; id. before μᾶλλον, Mat.7:11 10:25, Luk.11:13 12:24, 28, Rom.11:12, 24, Phm 16, Heb.9:14; π. χείρονος τιμωρίας, Heb.10:29; pl., Mat.15:34 16:9-10 27:13, Mrk.6:38 8:5, 19-20 15:4, Luk.15:17, Act.21:20.†
(AS)
adj. of number, magnitude, degree, etc.,
how much, how great, how many: Mat.6:23, 2Co.7:11; of time, Mrk.9:21; neut., absol., Luk.16:5, 7; dative, πόσῳ, adverbially, how much, Mat.12:12; id. before μᾶλλον, Mat.7:11 10:25, Luk.11:13 12:24, 28, Rom.11:12, 24, Phm 16, Heb.9:14; π. χείρονος τιμωρίας, Heb.10:29; pl., Mat.15:34 16:9-10 27:13, Mrk.6:38 8:5, 19-20 15:4, Luk.15:17, Act.21:20.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4214 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- much13
- many9
- thing2
- great1
- long1
- what1
First verses
- Matthew 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
- Matthew 7:11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- Matthew 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
- Matthew 12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
- Matthew 15:34And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
- Matthew 16:9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
- Matthew 16:10Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
- Matthew 27:13Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
- Mark 6:38He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
- Mark 8:5And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
- Mark 8:19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
- Mark 8:20And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
- Mark 9:21And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
- Mark 15:4And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
- Luke 11:13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
- Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Luke 12:28If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
- Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
- Luke 16:5So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
- Luke 16:7Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πόσος,
Ionic dialect κόσος, η, ον, interrogative adjective of what quantity?
1 of Number, how many? κόσοι τινές εἰσι οἱ Αακεδαιμόνιοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.234; π. καὶ ποῖα..; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.7; π. χρήματ; [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.1.35; π. ἄττα δὴ ὑποδήματα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1133a21)]: with singular Nouns, how great? how much? π. πλῆθος νεῶ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 334; π. τις ἀριθμό; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 198c; π. χρυσίο; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.1.)]
2 of Distance, how far? πόσον ἄπεστιν ἐνθένδε τὸ στράτευμ; [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 6.3.10)]; π. τις ὁδὸς εἴη[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 4.6.10; μέχρι πόσο; Anonymus cited in 2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 1.3.9, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 953.32.)]
3 of Time, how long? π. τινὰ χρόνο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 558, etc.; π. χρόνο;πότ; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 83.)]
4 of Value, how much? πόσον δίδω; [Refs ([prev. author] “Pax” 1262; πόσο;)]at what price? [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ach.” 812, 898, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20b, etc.)]; ἐπὶ πόσ;[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 41a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.43)]; ἐκ πόσου is falsa lectio for{ὁπόσου} in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.30.)]
5 of Degree, how great? πόθο; πόσος τι; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 55; πόσης γέμει σωφροσύνη; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 216d)]: neuter adverb πόσο; πόσ; to what amount? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 399, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.)]
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II ποσός, ή, όν, indefinite adjective of a certain quantity or magnitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 3D., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 245d)], etc.; ποσὰ τῶν περιφερῶν a certain number of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.50U.)]; ἐπὶ ποσόν for a certain time, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.34.15, etc.; οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ π. [prev. author] 1.1.2)]; κατὰ ποσόν to a certain extent, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 81.22.)]
II.2 ποσόν, τό, ={ποσότης}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 24c, 24d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 4b20, “Metaphorical” 1020a7, etc.)]; κατὰ ποσόν in point of quantity, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1158b31.)]
III adverb ποσῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 34, 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “Oss.” 18, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de signis fracturarum - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 2, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 238.24, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.120, 227. (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] q[uglide]oty-os, compareLatin quot, Sanskrit káti 'how many?')
Ionic dialect κόσος, η, ον, interrogative adjective of what quantity?
1 of Number, how many? κόσοι τινές εἰσι οἱ Αακεδαιμόνιοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.234; π. καὶ ποῖα..; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.7; π. χρήματ; [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.1.35; π. ἄττα δὴ ὑποδήματα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1133a21)]: with singular Nouns, how great? how much? π. πλῆθος νεῶ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 334; π. τις ἀριθμό; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 198c; π. χρυσίο; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.1.)]
2 of Distance, how far? πόσον ἄπεστιν ἐνθένδε τὸ στράτευμ; [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 6.3.10)]; π. τις ὁδὸς εἴη[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 4.6.10; μέχρι πόσο; Anonymus cited in 2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 1.3.9, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 953.32.)]
3 of Time, how long? π. τινὰ χρόνο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 558, etc.; π. χρόνο;πότ; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 83.)]
4 of Value, how much? πόσον δίδω; [Refs ([prev. author] “Pax” 1262; πόσο;)]at what price? [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ach.” 812, 898, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20b, etc.)]; ἐπὶ πόσ;[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 41a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.43)]; ἐκ πόσου is falsa lectio for{ὁπόσου} in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.30.)]
5 of Degree, how great? πόθο; πόσος τι; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 55; πόσης γέμει σωφροσύνη; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 216d)]: neuter adverb πόσο; πόσ; to what amount? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 399, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.)]
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II ποσός, ή, όν, indefinite adjective of a certain quantity or magnitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 3D., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 245d)], etc.; ποσὰ τῶν περιφερῶν a certain number of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.50U.)]; ἐπὶ ποσόν for a certain time, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.34.15, etc.; οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ π. [prev. author] 1.1.2)]; κατὰ ποσόν to a certain extent, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 81.22.)]
II.2 ποσόν, τό, ={ποσότης}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 24c, 24d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 4b20, “Metaphorical” 1020a7, etc.)]; κατὰ ποσόν in point of quantity, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1158b31.)]
III adverb ποσῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 34, 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “Oss.” 18, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de signis fracturarum - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 2, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 238.24, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.120, 227. (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] q[uglide]oty-os, compareLatin quot, Sanskrit káti 'how many?')