ΠΟΣΑ, ποσα
POSA, posa
Sounds Like: PO-sah
Translations: how many, what number, how much
From the root: ΠΟΣΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Pronoun
Explanation: This word is an interrogative adjective or pronoun used to ask about quantity or number. It translates to 'how many' or 'how much' and is used in questions or indirect questions. For example, it can be used to ask 'how many things' or 'what number of things'.
Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4214 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 16:36
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 85:5
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 1:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 47:8
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΣΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΟΣΑΙ — how many, how great
- ΠΟΣΑΙΣ — (to/for) how many, (to/for) as many as
- ΠΟΣΑΣ — how much, how many, as much as, as many as
- ΠΟΣΗ — how much, how great, how many, a how much, a how great
- ΠΟΣΗΝ — how much, how great, how many
- ΠΟΣΗΣ — of how much, of how great, of how many
- ΠΟΣΟ — how much, how great, how many, how far, how long, what amount, what size
- ΠΟΣΟΙ — how many, how much
- ΠΟΣΟΝ — how much, how great, what quantity, a quantity, a sum
- ΠΟΣΟΣ — how much, how great, how many, what quantity, what size
- ΠΟΣΟΥ — how much, how great, how many, as much as, as many as, of how much, of how many
- ΠΟΣΟΥΣ — how many, how great, as many as, as great as
- ΠΟΣΩ — how much, how great, how large, how far, how long
- ΠΟΣΩΝ — (of) how many, (of) how much
- ΠΩΣΟΙΟΝ — how great, how much, how many, what kind of, what sort of
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