Definition
a certain one/thing; anyone/thing; someone/thing
Vocabulary Form
τις, τι
Erasmian
Modern
Root
τιν
Frequency
534
GK
5516
Mnemonics
Without accent, the word is very general.
Mnemonic Singing
Make me a blessing to someone today.
Song
Notes
This word and the preceding are identical in form except for the accent. See their full paradigm in the Appendix. This is one situation in which knowing accents is helpful. See the Appendix for others.
τις is either not accented or it is accented on its last syllable ("ultima"). It is the indefinite pronoun.
τις is always accented on its first syllable. It is the interrogative pronoun.
Both are 3-3 adjectives, using the same third declension pattern for the masculine and feminine (τίς), and the third declension for the neuter (τις).
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 25:19 | but had certain (tina | τινα | acc pl neut) questions about their own religion to put to him and about a certain (tinos | τινος | gen sg masc) Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive. |
| Acts 25:26 | But I do not have anything (ti | τι | acc sg neut) definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, when the examination has been conducted, I may have something to write. |
| Acts 26:26 | For the king knows about these matters, and to him I am speaking boldly, for I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner. |
| Acts 26:31 | and after they had left the room, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man is doing nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.” |
| Acts 27:1 | And when it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some (tinas | τινας | acc pl masc) other prisoners to a centurion, named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort. |
| Acts 27:8 | Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a (tina | τινά | acc sg masc) place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city Lasea. |
| Acts 27:16 | Running under the lee of a (ti | τι | acc sg neut) small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the dinghy under control. |
| Acts 27:26 | But we must run aground on some (tina | τινα | acc sg fem) island.” |
| Acts 27:27 | And when it was the fourteenth night, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. |
| Acts 27:39 | Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a (tina | τινα | acc sg masc) bay that had a beach, on which they planned, if possible, to run the ship ashore. |
| Acts 27:42 | It was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, so none could escape by swimming away. |
| Acts 27:44 | and the rest, some on planks and others on pieces (tinōn | τινων | gen pl neut) of the ship. And so it came about that all escaped safely to the land. |
| Acts 28:3 | When Paul had gathered a (ti | τι | acc sg neut) bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out from the heat and fastened onto his hand. |
| Acts 28:19 | But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, but not as though I had some (ti | τι | acc sg neut) charge to bring against my own people. |
| Acts 28:21 | And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any (tis | τις | nom sg masc) of the brothers come from there and reported or spoken any (ti | τι | acc sg neut) bad about you. |
| Romans 1:11 | For I long to see you so that I may share with you some (ti | τι | acc sg neut) spiritual gift to strengthen you — |
| Romans 1:13 | I want you to know, brethren, that I often intended to come to you (but have been prevented until now) so that I might have some (tina | τινά | acc sg masc) fruit among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles. |
| Romans 3:3 | But what if some (tines | τινες | nom pl masc) were unfaithful, will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? |
| Romans 3:8 | And why not say (as some (tines | τινες | nom pl masc) slanderously claim that we are saying), “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is well deserved! |
| Romans 5:7 | For rarely will one (tis | τις | nom sg masc) die for an upright person — though perhaps for a genuinely good person one (tis | τις | nom sg masc) might actually dare to die. |
| Romans 8:9 | You, however, are not controlled by the flesh but by the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Whoever (tis | τις | nom sg masc) does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. |
| Romans 8:39 | nor height, nor depth, nor any (tis | τις | nom sg fem) other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| Romans 9:11 | even before they were born or had done anything (ti | τι | acc sg neut) either good or bad so that God’s purpose according to election might stand, |
| Romans 11:14 | if somehow I could provoke my own countrymen to jealousy and save some (tinas | τινάς | acc pl masc) of them. |
| Romans 11:17 | But if some (tines | τινες | nom pl masc) of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, |
Mnemonics
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