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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.
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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 - “But if your eye is [fn]bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how G4214 great G4214 is the darkness!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how G4214 much G4214 more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - “It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house [fn]Beelzebul, how G4214 much G4214 more the members of his household!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - “How G4214 much G4214 more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do [fn]good on the Sabbath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:34 - And Jesus *said to them, “How G4214 many G4214 loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:9 - “Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how G4214 many G4214 baskets full you picked up?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:10 - “Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how G4214 many G4214 large baskets full you picked up?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then Pilate *said to Him, “Do You not hear how G4214 many G4214 things G4214 they testify against You?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:38 - And He *said to them, “How G4214 many G4214 loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they *said, “Five, and two fish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:5 - And He was asking them, “How G4214 many G4214 loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how G4214 many G4214 baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - “When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how G4214 many G4214 large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:21 - And He asked his father, “How G4214 long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:4 - Then Pilate was questioning Him again, saying, “You answer nothing? See how G4214 many G4214 accusations they bring against You!”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:13 - “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how G4214 much G4214 more will your [fn]heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:24 - “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how G4214 much G4214 more valuable you are than the birds!
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:28 - “But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how G4214 much G4214 more will He clothe you? You of little faith!
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:17 - “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How G4214 many G4214 of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - “And he summoned each one of his [fn]master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How G4214 much G4214 do you owe my master?’
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:7 - “Then he said to another, ‘And how G4214 much G4214 do you owe?’ And he said, ‘One hundred [fn]kors of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how G4214 many G4214 [fn]thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how G4214 much G4214 more will their [fn]fullness be!
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how G4214 much G4214 more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - For behold what G4214 earnestness this very thing—this [fn]godly sorrow—has brought about in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:16 - no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how G4214 much G4214 more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:14 - how G4214 much G4214 more will the blood of Christ, who through [fn]the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse [fn]your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - How G4214 much G4214 worse punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as defiled the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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