Gloss
how? in what way?; how!
Forms of the word
Dictionary
πῶς
Greek transliteration
pōs
Simplified transliteration
pos
Numbers
Strong's number
4459
GK Number
4802
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
103
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
particle
Definition
interrogative particle, How? In what manner? By what means? Mt. 7:4; 22:12; Jn. 6:52; used in interrogations which imply a negative, Mt. 12:26, 29, 34; 22:45; 23:33; Acts 8:31; put concisely for How is it that? How does it come to pass that? Mt. 16:11; 22:43; Mk. 4:40; Jn. 7:15; with an indirect interrogation, how, in what manner, Mt. 6:28; 10:19; Mk. 11:18; put for τι, What? Lk. 10:26; put for ως, as a particle of exclamation, how, how much, how greatly, Mk. 10:23, 24
Greek-English Concordance for πῶς
| Matthew 6:28 | And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how (pōs | πῶς | part) they grow; they do not toil nor do they spin; |
| Matthew 7:4 | Or how (pōs | πῶς | particle) dare you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and look, there is a log in your own eye? |
| Matthew 10:19 | But when they hand you over, do not worry about how (pōs | πῶς | conj) you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time. |
| Matthew 12:4 | how (pōs | πῶς | conj) he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but for the priests alone? |
| Matthew 12:26 | So if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how (pōs | πῶς | conj) then will his kingdom stand? |
| Matthew 12:29 | Or how (pōs | πῶς | conj) can someone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his belongings, unless he first ties up the strong man? And then he will ransack his house. |
| Matthew 12:34 | You offspring of snakes! How (pōs | πῶς | conj) can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. |
| Matthew 16:11 | How (pōs | πῶς | conj) is it that you do not understand that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” |
| Matthew 21:20 | When the disciples saw this, they were astonished and said, “How (pōs | πῶς | particle) did the fig tree wither away so quickly?” |
| Matthew 22:12 | And he said to him, ‘Friend, how (pōs | πῶς | conj) did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And the man was speechless. |
| Matthew 22:43 | He said to them, “How (pōs | πῶς | conj) then does David in the Spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying, |
| Matthew 22:45 | If therefore David calls him ‘Lord,’ how (pōs | πῶς | conj) can he be his son?” |
| Matthew 23:33 | You snakes! You brood of vipers! How (pōs | πῶς | conj) will you escape being condemned to hell? |
| Matthew 26:54 | But how (pōs | πῶς | conj) then would the scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?” |
| Mark 2:26 | How (pōs | πῶς | conj) he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, sacred ate which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” who were |
| Mark 3:23 | So he called them together in parables: and began speaking to them in parables: “How (pōs | πῶς | conj) can Satan drive out Satan? |
| Mark 4:13 | And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? this Then how (pōs | πῶς | conj) will you understand all the parables? will you understand |
| Mark 4:30 | Then he said, “To what (pōs | πῶς | conj) can we compare the kingdom of God, or what it? parable can we use for it? |
| Mark 5:16 | And those who had seen it described to them what (pōs | πῶς | conj) had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the pigs. |
| Mark 9:12 | And he said to them, “Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Yet how (pōs | πῶς | conj) is it written about the Son of Man? That he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt? |
| Mark 10:23 | And looking around, Jesus said to his disciples, “How (pōs | πῶς | particle) difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God.” |
| Mark 10:24 | The disciples were shocked at his words. But Jesus, responding again, said to them, “Children, how (pōs | πῶς | particle) difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! |
| Mark 11:18 | And the ruling priests and the scribes heard of this and began seeking how (pōs | πῶς | conj) they could destroy him, for they feared him, because all the people were impressed by his teaching. |
| Mark 12:26 | But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the passage about the bush, how (pōs | πῶς | conj) God spoke to him saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? |
| Mark 12:35 | While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he said, “How (pōs | πῶς | conj) can the scribes say that Messiah is the son of David? |
