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πόσος G4214

G4214 is the Greek word πόσος, transliterated pósos. The King James Version most often renders it how much.

Word: πόσοςTransliteration: pósosLanguage: GreekIn the KJV: 27 verses

What it means

interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many).

Where it comes from

from an absolute (who, what) and G3739 (ὅς).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 27 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

how much 12×how many 9×how many things 2×how great 1×how long 1×how 1×what 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: how great (long, many), what.

Verses using πόσος

All 27 verses, quoted in full.

Matthew 6:23 · KJV

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 7:11 · KJV

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Matthew 10:25 · KJV

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

Matthew 12:12 · KJV

How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Matthew 15:34 · KJV

And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

Matthew 16:9 · KJV

Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Matthew 16:10 · KJV

Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Matthew 27:13 · KJV

Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

Mark 6:38 · KJV

He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.

Mark 8:5 · KJV

And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

Mark 8:19 · KJV

When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

Mark 8:20 · KJV

And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

Mark 9:21 · KJV

And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

Mark 15:4 · KJV

And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

Luke 11:13 · KJV

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Luke 12:24 · KJV

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

Luke 12:28 · KJV

If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Luke 15:17 · KJV

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Luke 16:5 · KJV

So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

Luke 16:7 · KJV

Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

Acts 21:20 · KJV

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

Romans 11:12 · KJV

Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Romans 11:24 · KJV

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

2 Corinthians 7:11 · KJV

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Philemon 1:16 · KJV

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

Hebrews 9:14 · KJV

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:29 · KJV

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Common questions

What does Strong's G4214 mean?

G4214 is the Greek word πόσος (pósos), meaning interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many).

How is G4214 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it how much (12 times), how many (9 times), how many things (2 times), how great (1 time), how long (1 time), among others.

How many times does G4214 appear in the Bible?

πόσος (pósos) is tagged in 27 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does G4214 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from an absolute (who, what) and G3739 (ὅς).

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