Greek prt-i · G4459
πῶς
pospoce
prop., in direct questions; As sometimes in cl. but more frequently and increasingly so in late writers (see
103 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pōs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4459is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 17 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4459
an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
The King James renders it: how, after (by) what manner (means), that.
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
pos is rendered "prop., in direct questions; As sometimes in cl. but more frequently and increasingly so in late writers (see". It stands 103 times in the Greek text, across seventeen books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "prop., in direct questions".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
The first use
And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
Matthew 6:28πῶς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seventeen of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: prop., in direct questions, and As sometimes in cl. but more frequently and increasingly so in late writers (see.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| prop., in direct questionshow?: with indic. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 12:29Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions… |
| As sometimes in cl. but more frequently and increasingly so in late writers (see | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 6:28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not… |
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 103, 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
- πῶς103
The grammar of each form
- PRT-I103PRT-I
Matthew
fourteen uses
And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
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How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
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But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.
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He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
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If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?
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Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
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You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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When the disciples saw this, they marveled and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”
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‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
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Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
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So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”
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You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
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But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”
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Mark
fourteen uses
During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
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So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
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Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
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Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?
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Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.
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He replied, “Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected?
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Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
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And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
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But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
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While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?
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As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.
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Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
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They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
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Luke
sixteen uses
“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
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How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
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Meanwhile, those who had seen it reported how the demon-possessed man had been healed.
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“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
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If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.
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When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.
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Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
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But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?
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When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:
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Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
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Then Jesus declared, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David?
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Thus David calls Him ‘Lord.’ So how can He be David’s son?”
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and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.
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And Judas went to discuss with the chief priests and temple officers how he might betray Jesus to them.
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John
twenty uses
“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
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“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
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If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
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“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
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How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
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They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”
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At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
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The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
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“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
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“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
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So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
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Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
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and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”
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But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
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“What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
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Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
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The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
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“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”
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Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
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Acts
nine uses
How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
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After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.
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“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
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Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and described how Saul had seen the Lord, who spoke to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly in that city in the name of Jesus.
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He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
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Peter motioned with his hand for silence, and he described how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Send word to James and to the brothers,” he said, and he left for another place.
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Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
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When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
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Romans
eight uses
Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
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In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.
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Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
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He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
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How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
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And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
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1 Corinthians
nine uses
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.
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I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord.
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But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,
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and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.
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Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct?
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So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.
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Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
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But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
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2 Corinthians
one use
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
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Galatians
two uses
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
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Ephesians
one use
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
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Colossians
one use
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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1 Thessalonians
two uses
For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
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Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
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2 Thessalonians
one use
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
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1 Timothy
two uses
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
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in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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Hebrews
one use
how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
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1 John
one use
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
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Revelation
one use
Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
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Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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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.