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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 eye is bad, 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, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things 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 be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign[fn] those of his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - Of how much more value is a man 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 - And Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:9 - Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets 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 baskets you gathered?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:38 - And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:5 - And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “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 broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:4 - And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:13 - If you then, who 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 neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:28 - But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:17 - “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to 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?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures[fn] of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion[fn] mean!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:24 - For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the 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 earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:16 - no longer as a bondservant[fn] but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, 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 more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[fn] conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
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