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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 27
    New Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

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

Eight of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Matthew.

The other 19 New Testament books never use the word.

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.

The words it stands beside

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!

    Matthew 6:23

    • 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!

    Matthew 7:11

    • 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!

    Matthew 10:25

    • 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.”

    Matthew 12:12

    • 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.”

    Matthew 15:34

    • 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?

    Matthew 16:9

    • πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: how many
  • Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

    Matthew 16:10

    • 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?”

    Matthew 27:13

    • 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.”

    Mark 6:38

    • πόσουςposouscorrelative or question word · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: How many
  • “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

    Mark 8:5

    • 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.

    Mark 8:19

    • 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.

    Mark 8:20

    • 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.

    Mark 9:21

    • 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!”

    Mark 15:4

    • 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!”

    Luke 11:13

    • 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!

    Luke 12:24

    • 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!

    Luke 12:28

    • 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!

    Luke 15:17

    • 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.

    Luke 16:5

    • 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.

    Luke 16:7

    • 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.

    Acts 21:20

    • 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!

    Romans 11:12

    • 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!

    Romans 11:24

    • 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.

    2 Corinthians 7:11

    • 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.

    Philemon 1:16

    • 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!

    Hebrews 9:14

    • 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?

    Hebrews 10:29

    • 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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