πάντως
pántōs · G3843 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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certainly, really, doubtless, no doubt
Pertaining to being in every respect certain
ExamplesLuke 4:23 And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! All the miracles that we heard were done in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well.’”
Acts 21:22 “So what is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.
1 Corinthians 16:12 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly encouraged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has the opportunity.
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indeed, certainly, at all, at least, in any event
A marker of strong emphasis, indicating complete validation of what is said
ExamplesRomans 3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
1 Corinthians 5:10 I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.
1 Corinthians 9:10 Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Certainly, really, doubtless, no doubt71.16
- This domain covers πάντως marking confident assertion, as Jesus anticipates the crowd's expectation of Him: “And He said to them, ‘No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: “Physician, heal yourself! All the miracles that we heard were done in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well.”’” (Luke 4:23)
- Indeed, certainly, at all, at least, in any event91.10
- Here πάντως marks emphatic totality within a clause, as Paul describes his adaptability in ministry: “To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some.” (1 Corinthians 9:22)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from πᾶς), adverb, altogether (Latinomnino), i. e. a. in any and every way, by all…
a. in any and every way, by all means: 1 Cor 9:22 (so from Herodotus down).
b. doubtless, surely, certainly: Lk 4:23; Acts 18:21 (Rec.); Acts 21:22; ; 1 Cor 9:10 (Tobit 14:8; Aelian v. h. 1, 32; by Plato in answers (cf. our colloquial by all means)). with the negative οὐ, α. where οὐ is postpositive, in no wise, not at all: 1 Cor 16:12 (often so as far back as Homer). β. when the negative precedes, the force of the adverb is restricted: οὐ πάντως, not entirely, not altogether, 1 Cor 5:10; not in all things, not in all respects, Rom 3:9; (rarely equivalent to πάντως οὐ, as in Ep. ad Diogn. 9 [ET] 'God οὐ πάντως ἐφηδόμενος τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασιν ἡμῶν.' Likewise, οὐδέν πάντως in Herodotus 5, 34. But in Theognis, 305 edition, Bekker οἱ κακοί οὐ πάντως κακοί ἐκ γαστρός γεγόνασι κτλ. is best translated not wholly, not entirely. Cf. Winers Grammar, 554f (515f); Buttmann, 389f (334f) (on whose interpretation of Romans, the passage cited, although it is that now generally adopted, see Weiss in Meyer 6te Aufl.)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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