ποῖος
poîos · G4169 · Greek · 33 occurrences
Meanings
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which, which one, which sort of
A reference to one among several objects, events, or states
ExamplesMatthew 19:18 Then he said to Him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER; YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY; YOU SHALL NOT STEAL; YOU SHALL NOT GIVE FALSE TESTIMONY;
Matthew 22:36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
Matthew 24:42 “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
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what sort of, what kind of
Interrogative references to class or kind
ExamplesMatthew 21:23 When He entered the temple area, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?”
Matthew 21:24 But Jesus responded and said to them, “I will also ask you one question, which, if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.
Matthew 21:27 And answering Jesus, they said, “We do not know.” He also said to them, “Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these things.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- λέγωto say 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐντολήcommandment 2
- ζωήlife 1
- κλέοςhonor 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ποταπός potapós · G4217 · what sort of, what kind of
- ποῖος is the unmarked interrogative of quality, asking what kind or sort something is, while ποταπός carries heightened rhetorical or exclamatory force, 'what sort of!'. Both function as quality interrogatives, differing chiefly in register and emphasis.
In the other Testament 1 word
- אַי ʼay · H335 · where?, where, which
- אַי (ʼay, H335) is the Hebrew interrogative pronoun corresponding to Greek ποῖος (poîos, G4169), both functioning to ask questions of quality, character, or selection ('what sort of,' 'which one'), reflecting direct translation equivalence across the Hebrew-to-Greek linguistic boundary in interrogative constructions.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- What sort of, what kind of58.30
- ποῖος can ask a qualitative question about the nature or character of something. James's warning about presuming on the future uses this interrogative: “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away” (James 4:14).
- Which, which one, which sort of92.36
- The same interrogative can also ask which one among a set of options. Matthew's account of the question about the great commandment uses this term: “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’” (Matthew 22:36).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ποίας, ἡ (cf. Curtius, § 387), herbage, grass: according to some interpreters formal in…
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
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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