Lexicon pou: where? Original Word: ποῦPart of Speech: Adverb, Interrogative Transliteration: pou Phonetic Spelling: (poo) Short Definition: where, whither Definition: where, in what place. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origininterrog. adverb from the same as pososDefinitionwhere? NASB Translationnowhere* (2), place (1), what (1), where (44).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4226: ποῦποῦ (cf. Curtius, § 631), an interrogative adverb, from Homer down, the Sept. for אַיֵה, אָנָה, אַי, where? in what place? a. in direct questions: Matthew 2:2; Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12, 14; Luke 17:17, 37; Luke 22:9, 11; John 1:38(39); ; ποῦ ἐστιν ((ἐστιν sometimes unexpressed)), in questions indicating that a person or thing is gone, or cannot be found, is equivalent to it is nowhere, does not exist: Luke 8:25; Romans 3:27; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 12:17, 19; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Galatians 4:15 L T Tr WH; 2 Peter 3:4; ποῦ φανεῖται (A. V. where shall ... appear) equivalent to there will be no place for him, 1 Peter 4:18. b. in indirect questions, for the relative ὅπου (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 57, 2 at the end): followed by the indicative, Matthew 2:4; Mark 15:47; John 1:39 (40); ; Revelation 2:13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 612 (569)); followed by the subjunctive, Matthew 8:20; Luke 9:58; Luke 12:17. c. joined to verbs of going or coming, for ποῖ in direct question (cf. our colloquial, where for whither; see Winers Grammar, § 54, 7; Buttmann, 71 (62)): John 7:35 (cf. Winers Grammar, 300 (281); Buttmann, 358 (307)); ; in indirect question, followed by the indicative: John 3:8; John 8:14; John 12:35; John 14:5; Hebrews 11:8; 1 John 2:11.
Strong's where, whither. Genitive case of an interrogative pronoun pos (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as pou used with the rising slide of inquiry); as adverb of place; at (by implication, to) what locality -- where, whither. see GREEK pou |
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