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Strong's G4214 πόσος (posos)

Posos means “what” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4214 — mizreh (“fan”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4214
Language Greek
Linked Usages 42
Books 17

Strong's G4214 Quick Answer

Strong's G4214 πόσος (posos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. posos (pos'-os) p/q. 1. interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many) [from an absolute pos (who, what) and G3739] It has 42 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include how. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
posos (pos'-os) p/q. 1. interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many) [from an absolute pos (who, what) and G3739]
Usage
42 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
how

Meaning and Definition

posos (pos'-os) p/q. 1. interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many) [from an absolute pos (who, what) and G3739] KJV: how great (long, many), what Root(s): G3739

Original Word
πόσος
Transliteration
posos
Derivation
Root: ὅς R1: 3739
Morphology
p/q.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4214. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

how much/many?

Usage: πόσος, -η, -ον adj. of number, magnitude, degree, etc., how much, how great, how many: Mat.6:23, 2Co.7:11; of time, Mrk.9:21; neut., absol., Luk.16:5, 7; dative, πόσῳ, adverbially, how much, Mat.12:12; id. before μᾶλλον, Mat.7:11 10:25, Luk.11:13 12:24, 28, Rom.11:12, 24, Phm 16, Heb.9:14; π. χείρονος τιμωρίας, Heb.10:29; pl., Mat.15:34 16:9-10 27:13, Mrk.6:38 8:5, 19-20 15:4, Luk.15:17, Act.21:20.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4214 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render posos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

how Matthew 6:23 26×

How Strong's G4214 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 27 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4214 (πόσος) appears 16 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4214 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4214 in the New Testament

27 indexed usages in New Testament.

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?

Strong's G4214 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 47:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of thy life?

2 Kingdoms 19:35 Septuagint / Brenton

And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 13:23 Septuagint / Brenton

How many are my sins and my transgressions? Teach me what they are.

Strong's G4214 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 8:75 Septuagint / Brenton

for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up unto heaven.

Tobit 10:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Now Tobit his father counted every day: and when the days of the journey were expired, and they came not,

Tobit 12:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Tobias said unto him, O father, it is no harm to me to give him half of those things which I have brought:

Usage Excerpts

First 42 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4214.

Genesis 47:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of thy life?
2 Kingdoms 19:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
Job 13:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How many are my sins and my transgressions? Teach me what they are.
Job 38:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? Tell me now, what is the extent of it?
Psalms 118:84 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment for me on them that persecute me?
Ezekiel 27:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth.
Matthew 6:23 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
Matthew 16:9 New Testament, 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 New Testament, KJV
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Matthew 27:13 New Testament, KJV
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
Mark 6:38 New Testament, 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 New Testament, KJV
And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
Mark 8:19 New Testament, 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 New Testament, KJV
And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
Mark 9:21 New Testament, 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 New Testament, KJV
And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
Luke 11:13 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, KJV
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
2 Corinthians 7:11 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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 New Testament, 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?
1 Esdras 8:75 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up unto heaven.
Tobit 10:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now Tobit his father counted every day: and when the days of the journey were expired, and they came not,
Tobit 12:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Tobias said unto him, O father, it is no harm to me to give him half of those things which I have brought:
Tobit 12:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for he hath brought me again to thee in safety, and made whole my wife, and brought me the money, and likewise healed thee.
4 Maccabees 1:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?
4 Maccabees 15:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!
Wisdom of Solomon 12:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own sons, Unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?
Wisdom of Solomon 13:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; Let them know how much better the Lord of them is: For the first author of beauty hath created them.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, Let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4214, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 8 usages, New Testament
Mark 6 usages, New Testament
Luke 6 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Philemon 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4214 FAQ

What does posos (πόσος) mean?

Posos (Strong's G4214) is a Greek word most simply glossed "what". posos (pos'-os) p/q. 1. interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many) [from an absolute pos (who, what) and G3739]

How many times is posos (πόσος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 42 linked usages for Strong's G4214 across 17 books.

Where can I study posos (πόσος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4214 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate posos (πόσος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as how. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4214 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4214, with linked reader references where each row is available.