How?!
πῶςStrong’s G4459pōs
Appears in 102 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pōs is the Greek word usually translated “how”, “why” and “what manner”. It appears in 102 verses of the New Testament.
“For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;”
Meaning
Usually translated “how”, “why” and “what manner”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- how 102
- why 1
- in what manner 1
- what 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 20
- Mark 16
- Luke 16
- Matthew 14
- 1 Corinthians 9
- Acts 8
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Timothy 3:5In context(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
- 1 Timothy 3:15In contextBut if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- Matthew 6:28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
- Matthew 7:4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
- Matthew 10:19But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
- Matthew 12:4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
All 102 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
πῶς pōs · how?!
πῶς, interrog. adv., correl. of ὅπως, 1. prop., in direct questions, how?: with indic., Mat.12:29, Mrk.3:23, Luk.11:18, Jhn.3:4, al.; καὶ π., Mrk.4:13, Luk.20:44; π. οὖν, Mat.12:26; π. οὐ, Mat.16:11, Luk.12:56; in deliberative questions (cf. Bl., §64, 6), with subjc., Mat.23:33 26:54; π. οὖν, Rom.10:14; π. δέ, Rom.10:14, 15; before ἄν, with optative, Act.8:31. 2. As sometimes in cl. but more frequently and increasingly so in late writers (see WM, §57, 2; Bl., §70, 2; Thumb, MGr., 192; Jannaris, Gr., App., vi, 13f.), = ὅπως, ὥς; …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “how” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOW, adverb
In what manner. I know not how to answer.
- “HOW can these things be?” John 3:9
- To what degree or extent. how long shall we suffer these indignities? how much better is wisdom than gold!“O how love I thy law! how sweet are thy words to my taste” Psalms 119:103
- For what reason; from what cause.
- By what means. how can this effect by produced?
All definitions
- In what state.
- It is used in a sense marking proportion; as how much less; how much more.
- It is much used in exclamation.“HOW are the mighty fallen!” 2 Samuel 1:19
- In some popular phrases, how is superfluous or inelegant.
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.