Greek q · G4214
πόσος
posospos'-os
how much/many?
27 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pósos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4214is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4214
interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many)
The King James renders it: how great (long, many), what.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
posos is rendered "how much/many?". It stands 27 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:23πόσον.¶
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- how much14
- How many8
- how many things2
- how great1
- How long1
- of how many1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πόσῳ11
- πόσους5
- πόσα2
- πόσον2
- πόσαι1
- πόσας1
- πόσην1
- πόσοι1
- πόσον.¶1
- πόσος1
- πόσων1
The grammar of each form
- correlative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular11Q-DSN
- correlative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine plural5Q-APM
- correlative or question word · accusative (object) · neuter plural2Q-APN
- correlative or question word · accusative (object) · neuter singular2Q-ASN
- correlative or question word · accusative (object) · feminine plural1Q-APF
- correlative or question word · accusative (object) · feminine singular1Q-ASF
- correlative or question word · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1Q-GPF
- correlative or question word · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1Q-NPF
- correlative or question word · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1Q-NPM
- correlative or question word · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1Q-NSM
- correlative or question word · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1Q-NSN
Matthew
eight uses
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
- πόσον.¶posoncorrelative or question word · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: how great
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: How much
“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”
- πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: How many
Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
- πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: how many
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
- πόσαςposascorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: how many
Then Pilate asked Him, “Do You not hear how many charges they are bringing against You?”
- πόσαposacorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: how many things
Mark
six uses
“Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.”
- πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: How many
“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.
- πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: How many
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.
- πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: how many
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.
- πόσωνposoncorrelative or question word · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of how many
Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
- πόσοςpososcorrelative or question word · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: How long
Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Have You no answer? Look how many charges they are bringing against You!”
- πόσαposacorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: how many things
Luke
six uses
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: How much
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- πόσοιposoicorrelative or question word · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: How many
And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
- πόσονposoncorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: How much
Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.
- πόσονposoncorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: how much
Acts
one use
When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
- πόσαιposaicorrelative or question word · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: how many
Romans
two uses
But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
2 Corinthians
one use
Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
- πόσηνposencorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: how much
Philemon
one use
no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
Hebrews
two uses
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: how much
How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
- πόσῳposocorrelative or question word · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: How much
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
