πως pōs

Greek word for “how” · Strong’s G4458 · used 16 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

πως; enclit. part.; at all;

How it is translated

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

• perhaps 12
• somehow 3
• all 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 27 (2), Romans 11 (2), Romans 1 (1), 1 Corinthians 8 (1), 1 Corinthians 9 (1), 2 Corinthians 2 (1), 2 Corinthians 9 (1), 2 Corinthians 11 (1), 2 Corinthians 12 (1), Galatians 2 (1)

Forms

• πως 15
• που 1

Words used with it

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

• φοβέω phobeō “to fear” 4
• εἰ ei “if” 5
• καταντάω katantaō “to come to” 2
• κενός kenos “empty” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 4
• κηρύσσω kērussō “to preach” 2
• βλέπω blepō “to see” 2
• εὑρίσκω ehuriskō “to find/meet” 2

Key verses

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

• Romans 1:10 — Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
• Romans 11:14 — If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
• Romans 11:21 — For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
• 1 Corinthians 8:9 — But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
• 1 Corinthians 9:27 — But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• 2 Corinthians 2:7 — So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
• 2 Corinthians 11:3 — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 2 Corinthians 12:20 — For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings,…
• Galatians 2:2 — And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by…
• Galatians 4:11 — I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
• Philippians 3:11 — If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
• 1 Thessalonians 3:5 — For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

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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.