Lexicon poios: of what sort? Original Word: ποῖος, α, ονPart of Speech: Interrogative Pronoun Transliteration: poios Phonetic Spelling: (poy'-os) Short Definition: of what sort Definition: of what sort. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as pososDefinitionof what sort? NASB Translationany (1), kind of...by which (1), what (21), what kind (6), what things (1), which (3), which ones (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4169: ποίᾳποίᾳ, ποίας, ἡ (cf. Curtius, § 387), herbage, grass: according to some interpreters formal in James 4:14; but ποίᾳ there is more correctly taken as the feminine of the adjective ποῖος (which see), of what sort. ( Jeremiah 2:22; Malachi 3:2; in Greek writings from Homer down.) STRONGS NT 4169: ποῖοςποῖος, ποίᾳ, ποῖον (interrogative pronoun, corresponding to the relative οἷος and the demonstrative τοῖος) (from Homer down), of what sort or nature (Latinqualis): absolute neuter plural in a direct question, Luke 24:19; with substantives, in direct questions: Matthew 19:18; Matthew 21:23; Matthew 22:36; Mark 11:28; Luke 6:32-34; John 10:32; Acts 4:7; Acts 7:49; Romans 3:27; 1 Corinthians 15:35; James 4:14; 1 Peter 2:20; in indirect discourse: Matthew 21:24, 27; Matthew 24:43; Mark 11:29, 33; Luke 12:39; John 12:33; John 18:32; John 21:19; Acts 23:34; Revelation 3:3; εἰς τινα ἡ ποῖον καιρόν, 1 Peter 1:11; ποίας (Rec. διά ποίας) namely, ὁδοῦ, Luke 5:19; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; ((also § 64, 5); Buttmann, §§ 123, 8; 132, 26; cf. Tobit 10:7).
Strong's what manner of, which. From the base of pou and hoios; individualizing interrogative (of character) what sort of, or (of number) which one -- what (manner of), which. see GREEK pou see GREEK hoios |
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