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Somewhere

πούStrong’s G4225

pou

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Pou is the Greek word usually translated “somewhere” and “about”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:”
Romans 4:19 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “somewhere” and “about”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • somewhere 2
  • about 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 2
  • Romans 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

πού pou · somewhere

πού enclitic particle, 1. anywhere, somewhere: Heb.2:6 4:4. 2. in some degree, perhaps, about: Act.27:29 (T, μήπου), Rom.4:19; δή που (T, δήπου), surely: Heb.2:16.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “somewhere” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SOMEWHERE, adverb

[some and where.]

In some place, unknown or not specified; in one place or another. He lives somewhere in obscurity. Dryden somewhere says peace to the manes of the dead.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.