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Lexicon :: Strong's G4214 - posos

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πόσος
Transliteration
posos (Key)
Pronunciation
pos'-os
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Part of Speech
pronoun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an absolute pos (who, what) and ὅς (G3739)
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Strong’s Definitions

πόσος pósos, pos'-os; from an absolute πός pós (who, what) and G3739; interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many):—how great (long, many), what.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G4214 in the following manner: how much (13x), how many (9x), how many things (2x), what (1x), how long (1x), how great (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G4214 in the following manner: how much (13x), how many (9x), how many things (2x), what (1x), how long (1x), how great (1x).

  1. how great

  2. how much

  3. how many

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πόσος pósos, pos'-os; from an absolute πός pós (who, what) and G3739; interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many):—how great (long, many), what.
STRONGS G4214:
πόσος, πόση, πόσον ((cf. Curtius, § 631), from Aeschylus down, Latinquantus), how great: Matthew 6:23; 2 Corinthians 7:11; πόσος χρόνος, how great (a space) i. e. how long time, Mark 9:21; neuter how much, Luke 16:5, 7; πόσῳ (by) how much, Matthew 12:12; πόσῳ μᾶλλον, Matthew 7:11; Matthew 10:25; Luke 11:13; Luke 12:24, 28; Romans 11:12, 24; Philemon 1:16; Hebrews 9:14; πόσῳ χείρονος τιμωρίας, Hebrews 10:29; plural how many: with nouns, Matthew 15:34; Matthew 16:9; Mark 6:38; Mark 8:4, 19; Luke 15:17; Acts 21:20; πόσα, how grave, Matthew 27:13; Mark 15:4.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
6:23; 7:11; 10:25; 12:12; 15:34; 16:9; 27:13
Mark
6:38; 8:4; 8:19; 9:21; 15:4
Luke
11:13; 12:24; 12:28; 15:17; 16:5; 16:7
Acts
21:20
Romans
11:12; 11:24
2 Corinthians
7:11
Philemon
1:16
Hebrews
9:14; 10:29

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4214 matches the Greek πόσος (posos),
which occurs 27 times in 27 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 - “But if your eye is bad [spiritually blind], your whole body will be full of darkness [devoid of God’s precepts]. So if the [very] light inside you [your inner self, your heart, your conscience] is darkness, how great and terrible is that darkness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - “If you then, evil (sinful by nature) as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give what is good and advantageous to those who keep on asking Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - “It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the bond-servant like his master. If they have called the head of the house [fn]Beelzebul (Satan), how much more [will they speak evil of] the members of his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - “How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful and permissible to do good on the Sabbath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:34 - And Jesus asked them, “How many loaves [of bread] do you have?” They replied, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:9 - “Do you still not understand or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you picked up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:10 - “Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they are testifying against You?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:38 - He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they said, “Five [loaves], and two fish.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:5 - He asked them, “How many loaves [of bread] do you have?” They said, “Seven.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They answered, “Twelve.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - “And [when I broke] the seven [loaves] for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they answered, “Seven.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:21 - Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he answered, “Since childhood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:4 - Then Pilate again asked Him, “Have You no answer [to give]? See how many charges they are bringing against You!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:13 - “If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:24 - “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow [seed] nor reap [the crop]; they have no storehouse or barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:28 - “But if this is how God clothes the grass which is in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You of little faith!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:17 - “But when he [finally] came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough food, while I am dying here of hunger!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - “So he summoned his master’s debtors one by one, and he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:7 - “Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred [fn]measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - And when they heard it, they began glorifying and praising God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all enthusiastic supporters of the Law [of Moses].

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now if Israel’s transgression means riches for the world [at large] and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment and reinstatement be!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these who are the natural branches back into [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - For [you can look back and] see what an earnestness and authentic concern this godly sorrow has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves [against charges that you tolerate sin], what indignation [at sin], what fear [of offending God], what longing [for righteousness and justice], what passion [to do what is right], what readiness to punish [those who sin and those who tolerate sin]! At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:16 - no longer as a slave, but [as someone] more than a slave, as a brother [in Christ], especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh [as a servant] and in the Lord [as a fellow believer].

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:14 - how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal [Holy] Spirit willingly offered Himself unblemished [that is, without moral or spiritual imperfection as a sacrifice] to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the ever living God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who has rejected and trampled under foot the Son of God, and has considered unclean and common the blood of the covenant that [fn]sanctified him, and has insulted the Spirit of grace [who imparts the unmerited favor and blessing of God]?
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