Word

πότερον

póteron · G4220 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. whether, if

    A marker of an indirect condition

    Examples

    John 7:17 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is of God, or I am speaking from Myself.

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 1 entry
Whether, if89.70
The interrogative particle introduces an indirect question presenting alternatives. John's account of Jesus's teaching at the feast uses this term: “‘If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is of God, or I am speaking from Myself’” (John 7:17).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ποτερα, πότερον (from Homer down), which of two; πότερον... ἡ,utrum... an, whether... or…
ποτερα, πότερον (from Homer down), which of two; πότερον... ἡ,utrum... an, whether... or (Winers Grammar, § 57, 1 b.; Buttmann, 250 (215)): Jn 7:17.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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