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ΠΟΣΟΥΣ, ποσους

POSOUS, posous

Sounds Like: po-SOOS

Translations: how many, how great, as many as, as great as

From the root: ΠΟΣΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is an interrogative and indefinite adjective. As an interrogative, it asks about quantity or size, meaning 'how many?' or 'how great?'. As an indefinite adjective, it refers to an unspecified quantity or size, meaning 'as many as' or 'as great as'. It agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun it modifies.

Inflection: Masculine or Feminine, Accusative, Plural

Strong’s number: G4214 (Lookup on BibleHub)


Instances

Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
  • Book Three — 8:18
  • Book Four — 3:49
Justin Martyr
  • First Apology of Justin Martyr — 21:1
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.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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