How much/many?
πόσοςStrong’s G4214posos
Appears in 27 verses of the New Testament
In short
Posos is the Greek word usually translated “how much”, “how many” and “how many things”. It appears in 27 verses of the New Testament.
“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?”
Meaning
Usually translated “how much”, “how many” and “how many things”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- how much 14
- how many 8
- how many things 2
- how great 1
- of how many 1
- how long 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 8
- Mark 6
- Luke 6
- Romans 2
- Hebrews 2
- Acts 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 6:23But 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 7:11If 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 10:25It 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 12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
- Matthew 15:34And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
- Matthew 16:9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Greek dictionary
πόσος posos · how much/many?
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.