πόθεν
póthen · G4159 · Greek · 29 occurrences
Meanings
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from where? whence? where?
Extension from a source, with an incorporated interrogative point of reference
ExamplesMatthew 13:27 “And the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’
Matthew 13:54 And He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, with the result that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man acquire this wisdom and these miraculous powers?
Matthew 13:56 “And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man acquire all these things?”
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how, in what manner
A marker of an event indicating how something took place
ExamplesMark 12:37 “David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; so in what sense is He his son?” And the large crowd enjoyed listening to Him.
John 1:48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
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why
Interrogative expressions of reason
ExamplesLuke 1:43 “And how has it happened to me that the mother of my Lord would come to me?
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λέγωto say 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- μάχηsevere clash 1
- οὗτοςthis 1
- πόλεμοςwar, battle 1
- σύyou 1
- βάπτισμαbaptism 1
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- אַיִן ʼayin · H370 · from where?
- Hebrew אַיִן serves as the interrogative equivalent asking about source or origin (whence), directly parallel to Greek πόθεν's interrogative function for place/source.
- אַי ʼay · H335 · where?, where, which
- אַי (ʼay, H335) אַי serves as the Hebrew interrogative equivalent expressing spatial or logical origin ('whence, from where'), directly corresponding to Greek πόθεν in its interrogative function across LXX translation contexts.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- From where? whence? where?84.6
- πόθεν, most literally, asks about a point of origin or source. Matthew's account of Jesus's rejection at Nazareth records the townspeople's question: “And He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, with the result that they were astonished, and said, ‘Where did this man acquire this wisdom and these miraculous powers?’” (Matthew 13:54).
- Why89.38
- The same interrogative can ask about a cause or reason rather than a literal place of origin. James asks the source of the readers' conflicts: “What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body's parts?” (James 4:1, where the underlying interrogative is rendered “source” in this causal sense).
- How, in what manner89.86
- The same interrogative can also ask about manner rather than source. Matthew's parable of the wheat and tares records the slaves' question: “‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’” (Matthew 13:27).
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (from Homer down), whence; a. of place,from what place: Mt 15:33; Lk 13:25, Lk…
a. of place,from what place: Mt 15:33; Lk 13:25, Lk 13:27; Jn 3:8; Jn 6:5; Jn 8:14; Jn 9:29, Jn 9:30; Jn 19:9; Rev 7:13; from what condition, Rev 2:5.
b. of origin or source, equivalent to from what author or giver: Mt 13:1,Mt 13:54, Mt 13:56; ; Mk 6:2; Lk 20:7; Jn 2:9; Jas 4:1; from what parentage, Jn 7:27f (cf. ), see Meyer at the passage,
c. of cause, how is it that? how can it be that? Mk 8:4; Mk 12:37; Lk 1:43; Jn 1:48 (); .
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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