πῶς pōs

Greek word for “how?!” · Strong’s G4459 · used 103 times in 100 verses

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Meaning

πῶς, interrog. adv., correl.

How it is translated

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

• how 100
• why 1
• what manner 1
• what 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

John 9 (6), Matthew 12 (4), Luke 12 (4), Matthew 22 (3), Mark 12 (3), John 3 (3), 1 Corinthians 7 (3), 1 Corinthians 14 (3), Mark 4 (2), Mark 10 (2)

Forms

• πῶς 101
• Πῶς 2

Words used with it

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

• δύναμαι dunamai “be able” 11
• οἶδα oida “to know” 11
• μεριμνάω merimnaō “to worry” 6
• βλέπω blepō “to see” 7
• ἐάν ean “if” 9
• εἰ ei “if” 10
• υἱός uhios “son” 9
• ὀφθαλμός ophthalmos “eye” 6
• ἤ ē “or” 8
• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 7
• δεῖ dei “be necessary” 6
• γινώσκω ginōskō “to know” 7

Key verses

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

• Matthew 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• John 5:44 — How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
• Romans 8:32 — He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• 1 Corinthians 3:10 — According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take…
• Galatians 4:9 — But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in…
• Colossians 4:6 — Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:9 — For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1 — Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye…
• 1 Timothy 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and…
• Hebrews 2:3 — How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• 1 John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
• Revelation 3:3 — Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou…

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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.