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Lexicon :: Strong's G4226 - pou

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ποῦ
Transliteration
pou (Key)
Pronunciation
poo
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Genitive case of an interrogative pronoun pos (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as πού (G4225) used with the rising slide of enquiry)
mGNT
49x in 2 unique form(s)
TR
44x in 2 unique form(s)
LXX
101x in 2 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

ποῦ poû, poo; genitive case of an interrogative pronoun πός pós (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as G4225 used with the rising slide of inquiry); as adverb of place; at (by implication, to) what locality:—where, whither.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's G4226 in the following manner: where (37x), whither (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's G4226 in the following manner: where (37x), whither (10x).
  1. somewhere

  2. nearly

  3. with numerals: somewhere about, about

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ποῦ poû, poo; genitive case of an interrogative pronoun πός pós (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as G4225 used with the rising slide of inquiry); as adverb of place; at (by implication, to) what locality:—where, whither.
STRONGS G4226:
ποῦ (cf. Curtius, § 631), an interrogative adverb, from Homer down, the Sept. for אַיֵה, אָנָה, אַי, where? in what place?
a. in direct questions: Matthew 2:2; Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12, 14; Luke 17:17, 37; Luke 22:9, 11; John 1:38(39); John 7:11; 8:10,19; 9:12; 11:34; ποῦ ἐστιν ((ἐστιν sometimes unexpressed)), in questions indicating that a person or thing is gone, or cannot be found, is equivalent to it is nowhere, does not exist: Luke 8:25; Romans 3:27; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 12:17, 19; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Galatians 4:15 L T Tr WH; 2 Peter 3:4; ποῦ φανεῖται (A. V. where shall... appear) equivalent to there will be no place for him, 1 Peter 4:18.
b. in indirect questions, for the relative ὅπου (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 57, 2 at the end): followed by the indicative, Matthew 2:4; Mark 15:47; John 1:39 (40); John 11:57; 20:2,13,15; Revelation 2:13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 612 (569)); followed by the subjunctive, Matthew 8:20; Luke 9:58; Luke 12:17.
c. joined to verbs of going or coming, for ποῖ in direct question (cf. our colloquial, where for whither; see Winers Grammar, § 54, 7; Buttmann, 71 (62)): John 7:35 (cf. Winers Grammar, 300 (281); Buttmann, 358 (307)); John 13:36; 16:5; in indirect question, followed by the indicative: John 3:8; John 8:14; John 12:35; John 14:5; Hebrews 11:8; 1 John 2:11.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:2; 2:4; 8:20; 26:17
Mark
14:12; 14:14; 15:47
Luke
8:25; 9:58; 12:17; 17:17; 17:37; 22:9; 22:11
John
1:38; 1:39; 3:8; 7:11; 7:35; 8:10; 8:14; 8:19; 9:12; 11:34; 11:57; 12:35; 13:36; 14:5; 16:5; 20:2; 20:13; 20:15
Romans
3:27
1 Corinthians
1:20; 12:17; 12:19; 15:55
Galatians
4:15
Hebrews
11:8
1 Peter
4:18
2 Peter
3:4
1 John
2:11
Revelation
2:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4226 matches the Greek ποῦ (pou),
which occurs 101 times in 87 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 3:9–Pro 23:30)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:9 -

So the LORD God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 -

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel? ”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 -

He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going? ”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 -

“Where is your wife Sarah? ” they asked him.

“There, in the tent,” he answered.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:5 -

They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 -

Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”

And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”

Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 -

And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 -

“I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph said. “Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 -

He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do? ”[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 -

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim? ”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 -

“So where is he? ” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 -

“Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,[fn] saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 -

He will say, “Where are their gods,

the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 -

“At nightfall, when the city gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 -

The men of Ai turned and looked back, and smoke from the city was rising to the sky! They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 -

Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the LORD brought us out of Egypt? ’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 -

He asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor? ”

“They were like you,” they said. “Each resembled the son of a king.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 -

Zebul replied, “What do you have to say now? You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him? ’ Aren’t these the troops you despised? Now go and fight them! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 -

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where do you come from? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 -

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.

The Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this evil act happen? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 -

Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you gather barley today, and where did you work? May the LORD bless the man who noticed you.”

Ruth told her mother-in-law whom she had worked with and said, “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 -

Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go? ”

“To look for the donkeys,” Saul answered. “When we saw they weren’t there, we went to Samuel.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 -

Then Saul himself went to Ramah. He came to the large cistern at Secu and asked, “Where are Samuel and David? ”

“At Naioth in Ramah,” someone said.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16 -

“What you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die[fn] since you didn’t protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around; where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 -

Some time later, David inquired of the LORD: “Should I go to one of the towns of Judah? ”

The LORD answered him, “Go.”

Then David asked, “Where should I go? ”

“To Hebron,” the LORD replied.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 -

Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I ever look your brother Joab in the face? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:4 -

The king asked him, “Where is he? ”

Ziba answered the king, “You’ll find him in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:13 -

“Where could I ever go with my humiliation? And you ​— ​you would be like one of the outrageous fools in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won’t keep me from you.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 -

“Where is your master’s grandson? ” the king asked.

“Why, he’s staying in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied to the king, “for he said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore my grandfather’s kingdom to me.’ ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 -

Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? ”

“They passed by toward the water,”[fn] the woman replied to them. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 -

The king made the almug wood into steps for the LORD’s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before did such almug wood arrive, and the like has not been seen again.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:14 -

He took the mantle Elijah had dropped, and he struck the water. “Where is the LORD God of Elijah? ” he asked. He struck the water himself, and it parted to the right and the left, and Elisha crossed over.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:6 -

Then the man of God asked, “Where did it fall? ”

When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a piece of wood, threw it there, and made the iron float.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:13 -

So the king said, “Go and see where he is, so I can send men to capture him.”

When he was told, “Elisha is in Dothan,”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:34 -

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?[fn] Have they rescued Samaria from my power?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13 -

“Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of[fn] Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah? ’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:15 -

where then is my hope?

Who can see any hope for me?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:29 -

then be afraid of the sword,

because wrath brings punishment by the sword,

so that you may know there is a judgment.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:7 -

he will vanish forever like his own dung.

Those who know[fn] him will ask, “Where is he? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:28 -

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ”

and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:10 -

But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,

who provides us with songs in the night,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:4 -

Where were you when I established the earth?

Tell me, if you have[fn] understanding.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:3 -

My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 -

My adversaries taunt me,

as if crushing my bones,

while all day long they say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 -

Why should the nations ask,

“Where is their God? ”

Before our eyes,

let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants

be known among the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:49 -

Lord, where are the former acts of your faithful love

that you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:2 -

Why should the nations say,

“Where is their God? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:7 -

Where can I go to escape your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:31 -

If the righteous will be repaid on earth,

how much more the wicked and sinful.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:30 -

Those who linger over wine;

those who go looking for mixed wine.


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