ΠΟΣΗΣ, ποσης
POSĒS, posēs
Sounds Like: PO-sees
Translations: of how much, of how great, of how many
From the root: ΠΟΣΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an interrogative and relative adjective, meaning 'how much,' 'how great,' or 'how many.' It is used to inquire about quantity, size, or number, or to refer to an amount that is already known or implied. As an adjective, it modifies a noun and agrees with it in gender, number, and case. In this genitive form, it indicates possession or relation.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G4214 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:5
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 1:38
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Wisdom — 12:21
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.
- ΠΟΣΑ — how many, what number, how much
- 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
- 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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