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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 may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:34 - And Jesus saith to them, 'How many loaves have ye?' and they said, 'Seven, and a few little 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 Box Mat 16:10

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 saith Pilate to him, 'Dost thou not hear how many things they witness against thee?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:38 - And he saith to them, 'How many loaves have ye? go and see;' and having known, they say, 'Five, and two fishes.'

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, 'Twelve.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - 'And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, 'Seven.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:21 - And he questioned his father, 'How long time is it since this came 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 questioned him, saying, 'Thou dost not answer anything! lo, how many things they do testify against thee!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:13 - If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking 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, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:28 - and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:17 - 'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:5 - 'And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:7 - 'Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, 'Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of 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 - and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:16 - no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more 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 more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?
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