Strong G4218ποτέ
once/when
- Transliteration
- pote
- Pronunciation
- pot-eh'
- Morphology
- Greek Particle
Definition
Detailed definition
ποτέ
enclitic particle,
1. once, formerly, sometime: of the past, Jhn.9:13 Rom.7:9 11:30, Gal.1:13, 23 2:6 (Lft., in l), Eph.2:2-3, 11 2:13 5:8, Col.1:21 3:7, 1Th.2:5, Tit.3:3, Phm 11, 1Pe.2:10 3:5 3:20; ἤδη ποτέ, now at length, Php.4:10; of the fut., Luk.22:32; εἴ πως ἤδη ποτέ, if sometime soon at length, Rom.1:10.
2. ever: after a neg., Eph.5:29, 2Pe.1:10 1:21; in a question, τίς π., 1Co.9:7, Heb.1:5, 13.†
(AS)
enclitic particle,
1. once, formerly, sometime: of the past, Jhn.9:13 Rom.7:9 11:30, Gal.1:13, 23 2:6 (Lft., in l), Eph.2:2-3, 11 2:13 5:8, Col.1:21 3:7, 1Th.2:5, Tit.3:3, Phm 11, 1Pe.2:10 3:5 3:20; ἤδη ποτέ, now at length, Php.4:10; of the fut., Luk.22:32; εἴ πως ἤδη ποτέ, if sometime soon at length, Rom.1:10.
2. ever: after a neg., Eph.5:29, 2Pe.1:10 1:21; in a question, τίς π., 1Co.9:7, Heb.1:5, 13.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4218 appears in 28 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- time13
- sometimes3
- once2
- past2
- sometime2
- aforetime1
- last1
- length1
- when1
- yet1
First verses
- Luke 22:32But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
- John 9:13They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
- Romans 1:10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
- Romans 7:9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Romans 11:30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
- 1 Corinthians 9:7Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
- Galatians 1:13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
- Galatians 1:23But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
- Galatians 2:6But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
- Ephesians 2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
- Ephesians 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
- Ephesians 2:11Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
- Ephesians 2:13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
- Ephesians 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
- Ephesians 5:29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
- Philippians 4:10But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
- Colossians 1:21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
- Colossians 3:7In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
- Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: πότε,
Ionic dialect κότε, Doric dialect πόκα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.7, +others)]:—interrogative Particle used in direct and indirect questions, when? at what time? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.227, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.642; πότ᾽ εἰ μὴ νῦν..; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 101 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 394 (Lyric poetry))]; πότ᾽ ἆρ; ={πότε} with ἆρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.4 or 11, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 563; πότε δ; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 720 (Lyric poetry); ἐς πότε λήξε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1185 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ πότε.. ἤρξασθε “SIG” 832.9 (Astypalaea, 2nd c.AD).)]
II indefinite ποτε (Attic dialect, also [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus in οὔποτε “IG” 5(2).343.48,66 (Orchom., 4th c.BC), οὔτε ποτέ “Tab.Defix.” in “Philol.” 59.201, and 5th c.AD: Cypria in μήποτε “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 144H.))], Ionic dialect κοτε, Doric dialect ποκα, Aeolic dialect ποτα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.5, _enclitic_ Particle:)]
II.1 at some time or other, at some time, τάχ᾽ ἄν ποτε θυμὸν ὀλέσσῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.205, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.76, etc.)]; π. καὶ ἄλλοτε at certain other times, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.12, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1451a9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 24.)]
II.2 in hypothetical clauses, questions, etc., at any time, ever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 755, 1133; εἴ κοτε Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2080.69)]; compare εἴ ποτε: also with relatives (compare δήποτε), Ζεὺς ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 160 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; ὅποι ποτέ, ὅπου π., etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 780, “Aj.” 194 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; after πω, πη, see at {πώποτε, πήποκα}: very frequently with negatives, οὔτε ποτ᾽.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.226; οὐδέ ποτ᾽ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 759; οὐδέν ποτ᾽ ἄλλο 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 16; οὐδεὶς ἐρεῖ ποθ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 481; οὐκ ἂν δή ποτε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.271, etc.; τοῦτο μὴ δόξῃς ποτέ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 762, compare 648, 750, etc.)]; compare οὔποτε, μήποτε, οὐδέποτε, μηδέποτε, οὐπώποτε, μηπώποτε.
II.3 in correlative clauses it stands first, with accent, ποτὲ μὲν.., ποτὲ δὲ.. at one time.., at another.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 170c (assuming variant), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.38.6, etc.; ποτὲ μὲν.., αὖθις δὲ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 560a; ποτὲ.., τοτὲ δ᾽ οὔ [prev. author] “Tht.” 192d; ποτ᾽ εἶχε.., εἶτά γε νῦν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.50; ποτὲ μὲν.. νῦν δέ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 11.1)]; ποτὲ δὲ.., without any preceding Part., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 9.7 (uncertain).)]
III of some unknown point of time,
III.1 in reference to the past, once, ὅν ποτ᾽ Ἀθήνη θρέψε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.547, etc.; οὕς ποτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ Αἰνείαν ἑλόμην, of the day before, 8.108 (see. Scholia), compare 14.45; ἤδη π. 1.260, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1142, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 346, “Ra.” 931; ποτ᾽ ἤδη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 50; πρόσθε πού ποτ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1549; χρόνῳ ποτ᾽ [prev. author] “Ant.” 303)]; especially in telling a story, once upon a time, οὕτω ποτ᾽ ἦν μῦς καὶ γαλῆ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1182, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 237b)]: with historic present, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 715, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 416, “Ba.” 2)]: with a substantive, εἰς τήν π. φιλίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.22; τυράννου.. πάλαι π. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1043, compare “Ph.” 677 (Lyric poetry), “Tr.” 555.)]
III.1.b at length, μόγις δή κοτε εἶπε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116; μόγις οὖν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314e, etc.; ὀψὲ γοῦν π. 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 27p.484M.)]
III.2 in reference to the future, at some time, καί π. τοι.. παρέσσεται.. δῶρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.213, compare 240, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 386, “Ant.” 912, etc.)]: also to denote earnest expectation, at length, εὔχεταί π. οἶκον ἰδεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.293; ἔμελλον ἄρα παύσειν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 268; especially with _imperative_, μέθες π.)]dimitte tandem aliquando, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 816; τείσασθ᾽, ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ π. [prev. work] 1041, etc.)]; ὀψέ π. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 1.31d.)]
III.3 with intensive force, in questions, τίς ποτ; who in the world? τίνες ποτ᾽ ἐστ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 408, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 220, etc.)]; τί ποτ᾽ ἐστὶ τοῦτο τὸ πάθος what it can possibly be, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 187d; οὐκ ἐξερεῖς ποτ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 335, compare 754, “Aj.” 1290, etc.)]; to strengthen ἀεί, ἀεί ποτε from all time, always in the past, ἀεί ποτε ζῇ ταῦτα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 456, compare “Aj.” 320, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82, +others, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.5; ἀεὶ δή π. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.13, 8.73.)]
Ionic dialect κότε, Doric dialect πόκα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.7, +others)]:—interrogative Particle used in direct and indirect questions, when? at what time? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.227, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.642; πότ᾽ εἰ μὴ νῦν..; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 101 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 394 (Lyric poetry))]; πότ᾽ ἆρ; ={πότε} with ἆρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.4 or 11, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 563; πότε δ; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 720 (Lyric poetry); ἐς πότε λήξε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1185 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ πότε.. ἤρξασθε “SIG” 832.9 (Astypalaea, 2nd c.AD).)]
II indefinite ποτε (Attic dialect, also [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus in οὔποτε “IG” 5(2).343.48,66 (Orchom., 4th c.BC), οὔτε ποτέ “Tab.Defix.” in “Philol.” 59.201, and 5th c.AD: Cypria in μήποτε “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 144H.))], Ionic dialect κοτε, Doric dialect ποκα, Aeolic dialect ποτα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.5, _enclitic_ Particle:)]
II.1 at some time or other, at some time, τάχ᾽ ἄν ποτε θυμὸν ὀλέσσῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.205, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.76, etc.)]; π. καὶ ἄλλοτε at certain other times, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.12, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1451a9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 24.)]
II.2 in hypothetical clauses, questions, etc., at any time, ever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 755, 1133; εἴ κοτε Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2080.69)]; compare εἴ ποτε: also with relatives (compare δήποτε), Ζεὺς ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 160 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; ὅποι ποτέ, ὅπου π., etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 780, “Aj.” 194 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; after πω, πη, see at {πώποτε, πήποκα}: very frequently with negatives, οὔτε ποτ᾽.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.226; οὐδέ ποτ᾽ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 759; οὐδέν ποτ᾽ ἄλλο 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 16; οὐδεὶς ἐρεῖ ποθ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 481; οὐκ ἂν δή ποτε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.271, etc.; τοῦτο μὴ δόξῃς ποτέ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 762, compare 648, 750, etc.)]; compare οὔποτε, μήποτε, οὐδέποτε, μηδέποτε, οὐπώποτε, μηπώποτε.
II.3 in correlative clauses it stands first, with accent, ποτὲ μὲν.., ποτὲ δὲ.. at one time.., at another.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 170c (assuming variant), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.38.6, etc.; ποτὲ μὲν.., αὖθις δὲ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 560a; ποτὲ.., τοτὲ δ᾽ οὔ [prev. author] “Tht.” 192d; ποτ᾽ εἶχε.., εἶτά γε νῦν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.50; ποτὲ μὲν.. νῦν δέ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 11.1)]; ποτὲ δὲ.., without any preceding Part., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 9.7 (uncertain).)]
III of some unknown point of time,
III.1 in reference to the past, once, ὅν ποτ᾽ Ἀθήνη θρέψε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.547, etc.; οὕς ποτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ Αἰνείαν ἑλόμην, of the day before, 8.108 (see. Scholia), compare 14.45; ἤδη π. 1.260, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1142, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 346, “Ra.” 931; ποτ᾽ ἤδη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 50; πρόσθε πού ποτ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1549; χρόνῳ ποτ᾽ [prev. author] “Ant.” 303)]; especially in telling a story, once upon a time, οὕτω ποτ᾽ ἦν μῦς καὶ γαλῆ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1182, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 237b)]: with historic present, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 715, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 416, “Ba.” 2)]: with a substantive, εἰς τήν π. φιλίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.22; τυράννου.. πάλαι π. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1043, compare “Ph.” 677 (Lyric poetry), “Tr.” 555.)]
III.1.b at length, μόγις δή κοτε εἶπε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116; μόγις οὖν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314e, etc.; ὀψὲ γοῦν π. 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 27p.484M.)]
III.2 in reference to the future, at some time, καί π. τοι.. παρέσσεται.. δῶρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.213, compare 240, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 386, “Ant.” 912, etc.)]: also to denote earnest expectation, at length, εὔχεταί π. οἶκον ἰδεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.293; ἔμελλον ἄρα παύσειν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 268; especially with _imperative_, μέθες π.)]dimitte tandem aliquando, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 816; τείσασθ᾽, ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ π. [prev. work] 1041, etc.)]; ὀψέ π. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 1.31d.)]
III.3 with intensive force, in questions, τίς ποτ; who in the world? τίνες ποτ᾽ ἐστ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 408, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 220, etc.)]; τί ποτ᾽ ἐστὶ τοῦτο τὸ πάθος what it can possibly be, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 187d; οὐκ ἐξερεῖς ποτ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 335, compare 754, “Aj.” 1290, etc.)]; to strengthen ἀεί, ἀεί ποτε from all time, always in the past, ἀεί ποτε ζῇ ταῦτα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 456, compare “Aj.” 320, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82, +others, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.5; ἀεὶ δή π. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.13, 8.73.)]