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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 - But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more will they defame the members of his household!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:34 - Jesus said to them, "How many loaves 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? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took 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 baskets you took up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many charges they are bringing 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 and see." When they found out, they said, "Five - and two fish."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:5 - He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They replied, "Seven."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Twelve."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - "When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Seven."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:21 - Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:4 - So Pilate asked him again, "Have you nothing to say? 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, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:24 - Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, 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 - And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:17 - But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - So he contacted his master's debtors one by one. He asked 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?' The second man replied, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?

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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 grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:16 - no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

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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 Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
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