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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 eyes are unhealthy,[fn] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - If you, then, though 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 students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more 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! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:34 - “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “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 basketfuls you gathered?

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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 basketfuls you gathered?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:38 - “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:5 - “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” “Twelve,” they replied.

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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 basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” They answered, “Seven.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:21 - Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?” “From childhood,” he answered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:4 - So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:13 - If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven 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. And how much more valuable you are than birds!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:28 - If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, 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 - “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. 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 asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’ “ ‘A thousand bushels[fn] of wheat,’ he replied. “He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’

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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 Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point 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 better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:14 - How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,[fn] so that we may serve the living God!

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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