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
| James 1:18 | According to his sovereign plan, he brought us into being through his word of truth, so that we would be a kind (tina | τινα | acc sg fem) of first fruits of all he created. |
| James 1:23 | For if someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a person who looks at his natural face in a mirror; |
| James 1:26 | If someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) thinks that he is religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. |
| James 2:14 | What good is it, my brothers, if someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) claims to have faith but has no works? Can that kind of faith save him? |
| James 2:16 | and one (tis | τις | nom sg masc) of you says to them, “Go in peace; stay warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not give them what their body needs, what good is that? |
| James 2:18 | But someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. |
| James 3:2 | For we all stumble in many ways. If someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature individual, able to bridle his whole body as well. |
| James 5:12 | Above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any (tina | τινά | acc sg masc) other oath. Rather let your “Yes” be yes and your “No,” no, so that you may not fall under judgment. |
| James 5:13 | Is anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) cheerful? He should sing praises. |
| James 5:14 | Is anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; |
| James 5:19 | My brothers, if anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) among you strays from the truth and someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) brings him back, |
| 1 Peter 2:19 | For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) endures pain while suffering unjustly. |
| 1 Peter 3:1 | wives should be subject to their own husbands, so that even if some (tines | τινες | nom pl masc) of them refuse to believe the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives |
| 1 Peter 4:11 | if someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) speaks, as speaking the oracles of God; if someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) serves, as by the strength that God supplies — so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen. |
| 1 Peter 4:15 | But none of you should suffer as a murderer or a thief or a criminal or as a meddler in the affairs of another; |
| 1 Peter 5:8 | Be sober-minded! Be alert! Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone (tina | τινα | acc sg masc) to devour. |
| 2 Peter 2:19 | They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whatever a man (tis | τις | nom sg masc) is overcome, to this he is enslaved. |
| 2 Peter 3:9 | The Lord is not late in fulfilling his promise, as some (tines | τινες | nom pl masc) regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not willing that anyone (tinas | τινας | acc pl masc) should perish, but that all should come to repentance. |
| 2 Peter 3:16 | as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters, in which are some (tina | τινα | nom pl neut) things (tina | τινα | nom pl neut) hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures. |
| 1 John 2:1 | My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one. |
| 1 John 2:15 | Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. |
| 1 John 2:27 | But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and not a lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him. |
| 1 John 4:20 | If someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
| 1 John 5:14 | And this is the confidence we have as we approach him: that if we ask anything (ti | τι | acc sg neut) according to his will, he hears us. |
| 1 John 5:16 | If someone (tis | τις | nom sg masc) sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he should ask and God will give him life — to those whose sins do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that he should pray about that. |
Mnemonics
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