Greek particle · G4218
ποτέ
potepot-eh'
once, formerly, sometime; ever
54 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: poté
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4218is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 18 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4218
indefinite adverb, at some time, ever
The King James renders it: afore-(any, some-)time(-s), at length (the last), (+ n- )ever, in the old time, in time past, once, when.
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
pote is rendered "once, formerly, sometime; ever". It stands 54 times in the Greek text, across eighteen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "once, formerly, sometime".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:6“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
Matthew 4:6μήποτε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eighteen of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: once, formerly, sometime, and ever.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| once, formerly, sometimeof the past, Jhn.9:13 Rom.7:9 11:30, Gal.1:13, 23 2:6 (Lft., in l), Eph.2:2-3, 11 2:13 5:8, Col.1:21 3:7, 1Th.2:5, Tit.3:3, Phm 11,... | Tagged as
and 2 more, 52 uses in all | WhereJohn 9:13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. |
| everafter a neg. | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its… |
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 54, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- μήποτε24
- ποτε22
- ποτέ4
- ποτὲ3
- μήποτέ1
The grammar of each form
- particle29PRT
- PRT-N + G4218=PRT25PRT-N + G4218=PRT
Matthew
eight uses
“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
- μήποτέmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: lest when
Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
‘No,’ said the wise ones, ‘or there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Mark
two uses
so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Luke
eight uses
The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John could be the Christ.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: whether
and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: when
John
two uses
Acts
two uses
But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Romans
three uses
in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.
- ποτὲpoteparticletagged: at last
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
- ποτέpoteparticletagged: once
Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
1 Corinthians
one use
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
- ποτέpoteparticletagged: at any time
Galatians
four uses
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: former
They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: formerly
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: formerly
Ephesians
six uses
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
- ποτὲpoteparticletagged: formerly
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: at any time
Philippians
one use
Now I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.
- ποτὲpoteparticletagged: at last
Colossians
two uses
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
1 Thessalonians
one use
As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: at any time
2 Timothy
one use
He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Titus
one use
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
Philemon
one use
Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
- ποτέpoteparticletagged: once
Hebrews
six uses
For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: ever
Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: ever
We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
- μήποτεmepotePRT-N + G4218=PRTtagged: otherwise
1 Peter
three uses
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: once
For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: formerly
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: at one time
2 Peter
two uses
Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
- ποτεpoteparticletagged: at any time
For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- ποτέpoteparticletagged: at any time
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.