ΠΟΙΟΣ, ποιος
POIOS, poios
Sounds Like: POY-oss
Translations: what kind of, what sort of, which, what, a certain kind of, some kind of
From the root: ΠΟΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Pronoun
Explanation: This word is an interrogative adjective or pronoun, used to ask about the nature, quality, or kind of something or someone. It can be translated as 'what kind of' or 'which'. It can also be used indefinitely to mean 'a certain kind of' or 'some kind of'. It inflects to agree with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case.
Inflection: Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G4169 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 28:2
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 6:193
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 49:8
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 9:18
- 2 Maccabees — 3:37
- Job — 28:12, 28:20, 38:19
- Isaiah — 66:1
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:15
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 13:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΙΟΣ.
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.
- ΠΟΙ — what kind of, what sort of, which, what
- ΠΟΙΑ — which, what kind of, what
- ΠΟΙΑΙ — what kind of, what sort of, what, which
- ΠΟΙΑΝ — which, what, what kind of, a what kind of
- ΠΟΙΑΣ — of what kind, of what sort, of what, what kind of, what sort of, what
- ΠΟΙΟ — what kind of, what sort of, what, which, to make, to do, to create, to produce, to perform, to cause, to appoint, to keep, to celebrate
- ΠΟΙΟΙ — what kind of, what sort of, what, which, a certain kind of, a certain sort of
- ΠΟΙΟΙΟ — what kind of, what sort of, what, which
- ΠΟΙΟΙΣ — what kind of, what sort of, what, which, of what kind, of what sort, to what kind of, to what sort of, to what, to which
- ΠΟΙΟΝ — what kind of, what sort of, which, what, a certain, some
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