πόσος posos

Greek word for “how much/many?” · Strong’s G4214 · used 27 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

πόσος, -η, -ον; adj. of number, magnitude, degree, etc.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for posos in context, with how often each is used:

• how much 14
• how many 9
• how many things 2
• how great! 1
• how long 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 8 (3), Matthew 16 (2), Luke 12 (2), Luke 16 (2), Romans 11 (2), Matthew 6 (1), Matthew 7 (1), Matthew 10 (1), Matthew 12 (1), Matthew 15 (1)

Forms

• πόσῳ 11
• πόσους 5
• πόσον 3
• πόσα 2
• πόσας 1
• πόσων 1
• πόσος 1
• πόσοι 1
• πόσαι 1
• πόσην 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with posos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• μᾶλλον mallon “more” 9
• ἄρτος artos “bread” 7
• εἰ ei “if” 7
• ἑπτά hepta “seven” 4
• πέντε pente “five” 3
• δόμα doma “gift” 2
• τετρακισχίλιοι tetrakischilioi “four thousand” 2
• σπυρίς spuris “basket” 2
• κόφινος kophinos “basket” 2
• πεντακισχίλιοι pentakischilioi “five thousand” 2
• πονηρός ponēros “evil/bad” 3
• κλάσμα klasma “fragment” 2

Key verses

The verses using posos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 6:23 — But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Matthew 7:11 — If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask…
• Matthew 10:25 — It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall…
• Luke 11:13 — If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
• Luke 12:24 — Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
• Luke 15:17 — And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
• Acts 21:20 — And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all…
• Romans 11:12 — Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
• 2 Corinthians 7:11 — For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what…
• Philemon 1:16 — Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
• Hebrews 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the…
• Hebrews 10:29 — Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.