Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G4226 - pou

Choose a new font size and typeface
ποῦ
Transliteration
pou (Key)
Pronunciation
poo
Listen
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 49 times in 44 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:2 - and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:4 - When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:20 - Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:17 - On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:12 - On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:14 - Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:47

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:47 - Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:25 - “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:58

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:58 - Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:17 - He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:17 - Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:37 - “Where, Lord?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:9 - “Where do you want us to prepare for it?” they asked.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:11 - and say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:38 - Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:39 - “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:8 - The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:11 - Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:35 - The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:10 - Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:14 - Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:19 - Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:12 - “Where is this man?” they asked him. “I don’t know,” he said.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:34 - “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:57 - But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:35 - Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:36 - Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:5 - Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:5 - but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:2 - So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:13 - They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:15 - He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:29 - Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rom 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:27 - Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:20 - Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17 - If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:19 - If they were all one part, where would the body be?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:55 - “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:15 - Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:8 - By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:18 - And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:4 - They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:11 - But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:13 - I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.