τὶς

neuter τὶ, genitive τίνος, indefinite (enclitic) pronoun (bearing the same relation to the interrogative τίς that ποῦ, πῶς, πότε do to the interrogatives ποῦ, πῶς, πότε);
1. a certain, a certain one; used of persons and things concerning which the writer either cannot or will not speak more particularly;
a. joined to nouns substantive, as well as to adjectives and to numerals used substantively; as, Σαμαρείτης τίς, Lk 10:33; ἱερεύς, Lk 1:5; Lk 10:31; ἀνήρ, Lk 8:27; Acts 3:2; Acts 8:9; Acts 14:8; ἄνθρωπος, Mt 18:12; Lk 10:30; Acts 9:33; plural Jude 1:4; τόπος, Lk 11:1; Acts 27:8; κώμη, Lk 10:38; Lk 17:12, and in many other passages; with proper names (as τάς Σίμων), Mk 15:21; Lk 23:26; Acts 9:43; Acts 21:16; Acts 25:19. δύο τινες with a partitive genitive, Lk 7:18(19); Acts 23:23; ἕτερος, Acts 8:34; plural Acts 27:1; it indicates that the thing with which it is connected belongs to a certain class and resembles it: ἀπαρχήν τινα, a kind of firstfuits, Jas 1:18, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 25, 2 a; joined to adjectives of quality and quantity, it requires us to conceive of their degree as the greatest possible; as, φοβερά τίς ἐκδοχή, a certain fearful expectation, Heb 10:27, where see Delitzsch (or Alford) (δεινή τίς δύναμις, Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 12; other examples from the Greek writings are given in Winers Grammar, § 25, 2c.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. II. 8); Matthiae, § 487, 4; (Bernhardy (1829), p. 442); incredibilis quidam amor, Cicero, pro Lig c. 2, 5); μέγας τίς, Acts 8:9.
b. it stands alone, or substantively: universally, τίς one, a certain one, Mt 12:47 (but WH in marginal reading only); Lk 9:49, Lk 9:57; Lk 13:6, Lk 13:23; Jn 11:1; Acts 5:25; Acts 18:7; plural τινες, certain, some: Lk 13:1; Acts 15:1; Rom 3:8; 1 Cor 4:18; 1 Cor 15:34; 2 Cor 3:1; Gal 2:12; 2 Thess 3:11; 1 Tim 1:3, 1 Tim 1:19; 1 Tim 4:1; 1 Tim 5:15; 1 Tim 6:10; 2 Pet 3:9; τινες ἐν ὑμῖν, some among you, 1 Cor 15:12; a participle may be added — either with the article, τινες οἱ etc., Lk 18:9; 2 Cor 10:2; Gal 1:7; or without it, 1 Tim 6:21; τίς and τινες with a partitive genitive: Lk 11:1; Lk 14:15; 2 Cor 10:12.
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a. joined to nouns and signifying some: χρόνον τινα, some time, a while, 1 Cor 16:7; ἡμέραι τινες, some (or certain) days, Acts 9:19; Acts 10:48; Acts 15:36; Acts 16:12; Acts 24:24; Acts 25:13; μέρος τί, Lk 11:36 (here WH marginal reading brackets τί); Acts 5:2; 1 Cor 11:18; τί βρώσιμον, Lk 24:41; add, Mk 16:18; Jn 5:14; Acts 17:21; Acts 23:20; Acts 28:21; Heb 11:40; βραχύ τί, Acts 5:34 (where L T Tr WH omit τί); Heb 2:7; περισσότερον τί, 2 Cor 10:8; μικρόν τί, 2 Cor 11:16; it serves modestly to qualify or limit the measure of things, even though that is thought to be ample or large (cf. 1 a. under the end): κοινωνία τίς, a certain contribution, Rom 15:26; καρπός, Rom 1:13; χάρισμα, ibid. 11. with a participle, ἀθετήσας τάς, if anyone has set at nought, Heb 10:28 (but this example belongs rather under the next entry).
b. standing alone, or used substantively, and signifying someone, something; anyone, anything: universally, Mt 12:29; Mk 9:30; Mk 11:16; Lk 8:46; Jn 2:25; Jn 6:46; Acts 17:25; Rom 5:7; 1 Cor 15:35; 2 Cor 11:20; Heb 3:4; Jas 2:18; 2 Pet 2:19, etc.; τίς ἐξ ὑμῶν, Jas 2:16; ἐξ ὑμῶν τίς, Heb 3:13; with a partitive genitive, Lk 7:36; Lk 11:45; 1 Cor 6:1; neuter τί with a partitive genitive, Acts 4:32; Rom 15:18; Eph 5:27. εἰς τίς, see εἷς, 3, p. 187a. it answers not infrequently to the indefinite one (German man, Frenchon): Mk 8:4; Jn 2:25; Jn 16:30; Rom 8:24; Heb 5:12 (where some (viz. R G T Tr (cf. Winers Grammar, 169 (160); R. V. marginal reading which be the rudiments etc.; cf.
c. below)) incorrectly read τινα (yet cf. Buttmann, 268 (230) note, cf. 260 (223) note)), etc.; cf. Matthiae, § 487, 2. εἰ τίς, see εἰ, III. 16; ἐάν τίς, τίνος, etc.: Mt 21:3; Mt 24:23; Mk 12:19; Lk 16:31; Jn 6:51; Jn 7:17; Jn 8:51; Jn 9:22, Jn 9:31; Jn 10:9; Jn 11:9f, 57; Jn 12:26, Jn 12:47; Acts 9:2 (here Tdf. ἄν); ; 1 Cor 5:11; 1 Cor 8:10; 1 Cor 10:28; Col 3:13; 1 Tim 1:8; 2 Tim 2:5, 2 Tim 2:21; Jas 2:14; Jas 5:19; 1 Jn 2:15; 1 Jn 4:20; 1 Jn 5:16; Rev 3:20; Rev 22:18f; ἄν τινων, Jn 20:23 (here Lachmann ἐάν); ἐάν μή τίς, Jn 3:3, Jn 3:5; Jn 15:6; Acts 8:31; οὐ... τίς, not... anyone, i. e. no one, Jn 10:28; οὔτε... τίς, Acts 28:21; οὐδέ... τίς, Mt 11:27; Mt 12:19; οὐκ... ὑπό τίνος, 1 Cor 6:12; μή τίς, lest any (man), Mt 24:4; Mk 13:5; Acts 27:42; 1 Cor 1:15; 1 Cor 16:11; 2 Cor 8:20; 2 Cor 11:16; 2 Cor 12:6; Eph 2:9; 1 Thess 5:15; Heb 4:11; Heb 12:15; hath any (one), Jn 4:33 (cf. μήτις, 2); μή τινα, 2 Cor 12:17; πρός τό μή... τινα, 1 Thess 2:9; ὥστε... μή τινα, Mt 8:28; like the Latinaliquis, it is used with the verb εἶναι emphatically: to be somebody, i. e. somebody of importance, some eminent personage (Winers Grammar, § 25, 2 c.; Buttmann, § 127, 16), Acts 5:36 (see examples from the Greek writings in Passow, under the word, B. II. 2 d.; (Liddell and Scott, ibid. A. II. 5); on the phrase τί εἶναι see e. β. below). Plural, τινες, some (of that number or class of men indicated by the context): Mk 14:4, Mk 14:65; Lk 21:5; Jn 13:29; τινες are distinguished from οἱ πάντες, 1 Cor 8:7; 1 Cor 9:22. τινες with an anarthrous participle, Mk 14:57; Lk 13:1; ταῦτα τινες ἦτε, such (of this sort) were some of you, 1 Cor 6:11 (cf. οὗτος, I. 2 d.); τινες with a partitive genitive, Mt 9:3; Mt 12:38; Mt 28:11; Mk 7:1; Mk 12:13; Lk 6:2; Lk 19:39; Acts 5:15; Acts 17:18, Acts 17:28, and often; followed by ἐκ and a partitive genitive, Lk 11:15; Jn 6:64; Jn 7:25, Jn 7:44; Jn 9:16; Jn 11:37, Jn 11:46; Acts 11:20; Acts 15:24, etc.; Paul employs τινες by meiosis in reference to many, when he would mention something censurable respecting them in a mild way: Rom 3:3; 1 Cor 10:7-10.
c. Sometimes the subject τίς, τινες, or the object τινα, τινας, is not added to the verb, but is left to be understood by the reader (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 6; (Winer's Grammar, §§ 58, 2; 64, 4)): before the partitive genitive Acts 21:16; before ἀπό, Mt 27:9 (1 Macc. 7:33); before ἐκ, Mt 23:34; Lk 21:16; (Jn 1:24 T Tr WH (cf. R. V. marginal reading); L T Tr WH (cf. R. V. marginal reading)); ; (2 John 4; Rev 2:10). (Other examples of its apparent omission are the following: as subject — of a finite verb (Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9 b. β.; Buttmann, § 129, 19): φησί, 2 Cor 10:10 R G T Tr text WH text; ὅταν λαλῇ τό ψεῦδος, Jn 8:44 (according to one interpretation; see R. V. margin); of an infinitive: οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε γράφειν ὑμῖν, 1 Thess 4:9 R G T Tr text WH; χρείαν ἔχετε τοῦ διδάσκειν ὑμᾶς, τινα etc. Heb 5:12 R G T Tr (but see 2 b. above). as object: δός μοι πιεῖν, Jn 4:7; cf. Mk 5:43. See Kühner, § 352 g.; Krüger, § 55, 3, 21.)
d. It stands in partitions: τίς... ἕτερος δέ, one... and another, 1 Cor 3:4; plural τινες (μέν)... τινες (δέ), Lk 9:7f.; Acts 17:18; Phm 1:15; cf. Passow, under the word, B. II. 2e.; (Liddell and Scott, ibid. A. II. 11. c.).
e. Besides what has been already adduced, the following should be noticed respecting the use of the neuter τί; α. universally, anything, something: Mt 5:23; Mk 8:23; Lk 11:54; Acts 25:5, Acts 25:11; 1 Cor 10:31, and very often; οὐδέ... τί, neither... anything, 1 Tim 6:7. β. like the Latinaliquid it is used emphatically, equivalent to something of consequence, something extraordinary (cf.
b. above): in the phrase εἶναι τί, 1 Cor 3:7; Gal 2:6; Gal 6:3; cf. Passow, under the word, B. II. 2 d.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. II. 5); and on the Latinaliquid esse see Klotz, Handwörterb. d. Latin Spr. 1:298b; (Harpers' Dictionary, under the word aliquis, II. C. 1) (on the other hand, in 1 Cor 10:19 τί εἶναι means to be anything, actually to exist); εἰδέναι (L T Tr WH ἐγνωκέναι) τί, i. e. much, 1 Cor 8:2.
3. As respects the position of the word, when used adjectivally it stands — now before its noun (τίς ἀνήρ, Acts 3:2; Acts 14:8; τίς μαθητής, Acts 9:10; τινας ἑτέρους, Acts 27:1; τί ἀγαθόν, Jn 1:47); now, and indeed far more frequently, after it, as ἱερεύς τίς, Lk 1:5; Lk 10:31; ἀνήρ τίς, Lk 8:27, etc., etc. Τίνες, used substantively, is found at the beginning of a sentence in Mt 27:47; Lk 6:2; Jn 13:29; 1 Tim 5:24; Phm 1:15; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 25, 2 Note, and 559 (520). The particle δέ may stand between it and its substantive (as Σαμαρείτης δέ τίς), as in Lk 10:33, Lk 10:38; Acts 8:9; Heb 10:27.