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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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 - but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - If therefore *ye*, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - It is sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:34 - And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:9 - Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:10 - nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then says Pilate to him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:38 - And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go and see. And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:5 - And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - And when the seven for the four thousand, the filling of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:21 - And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:4 - And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? See of how many things they bear witness against thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:13 - If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:24 - Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* than the birds?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:28 - But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:17 - And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - And having called to him each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:7 - Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - And they having heard it glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but what excusing of yourselves, but what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal, but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:16 - not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:14 - how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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