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Greek prt-i · G4219

πότε

potepot'-eh

when?

19 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: póte

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4219

interrogative adverb, at what time

The King James renders it: + how long, 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 "when?". It stands 19 times in the Greek text, across five books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

The first use

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

Matthew 17:17πότε

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's nineteen uses are in Matthew.

The other 22 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

  • when18
  • whenever1

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.

ποτέpoteonce/whenUses54
πότερονpoteronwhetherUses1

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • πότε19

The grammar of each form

  • PRT-I19PRT-I

Matthew

seven uses
  • “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

    Matthew 17:17

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”

    Matthew 24:3

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink?

    Matthew 25:37

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

    Matthew 25:38

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: When
  • When did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?’

    Matthew 25:39

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: When
  • And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

    Matthew 25:44

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when

Mark

five uses
  • “O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”

    Mark 9:19

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to be fulfilled?”

    Mark 13:4

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.

    Mark 13:33

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.

    Mark 13:35

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when

Luke

four uses
  • “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

    Luke 9:41

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

    Luke 12:36

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: whenever
  • When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.

    Luke 17:20

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”

    Luke 21:7

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when

John

two uses
  • When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they asked Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

    John 6:25

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when
  • So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

    John 10:24

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when

Revelation

one use
  • And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

    Revelation 6:10

    • πότεpotePRT-Itagged: when

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 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.

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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