Strong's Lexicon
G4225 — πού
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4225 |
|---|---|
| Word: | πού |
| Part of Speech: | particle |
| Etymology: | genitive case of an indefinite pronoun pos (some) otherwise obsolete |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 7 |
| Transliteration: | pou |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | pou' |
| Meaning: | 1. as adverb of place, somewhere, i.e. nearly |
| KJV Renderings: | about, a certain place |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μήπου (T Tr) or μή ποῦ (WH), that nowhere, lest anywhere (lest haply): Act 27:29 T Tr WH. (Homer, et al.)
STRONGS NT 4225: πούπού, an enclitic particle, from Homer down;
1. somewhere: Heb 2:6; Heb 4:4.
2. it has a limiting force, nearly; with numerals somewhere about, about (Herodotus 1,119; 7, 22; Pausanias, 8, 11, 2; Herodian, 7, 5, 3 (2 edition, Bekker); Aelian v. h. 13, 4; others): Rom 4:19.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
πού (about)
Romans 4:19
- KJV: And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead about an hundred years old neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb
- GK: και μη ασθενήσας τη πίστει ου κατενόησε το εαυτού σώμα ήδη νενεκρωμένον εκατονταέτης που υπάρχων και την νέκρωσιν της μήτρας Σάρρας
Hebrews 2:6
- KJV: But one in a certain place testified saying What is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him
- GK: διεμαρτύρατο δε που τις λέγων τι εστιν άνθρωπος ότι μιμνήσκη αυτού η υιός ανθρώπου ότι επισκέπτη αυτόν
Hebrews 4:4
- KJV: For he spake in a certain place of the seventh on this wise And God did rest the seventh day from all his works
- GK: είρηκε γαρ που περί της εβδόμης ούτως και κατέπαυσεν ο θεος εν τη ημέρα τη εβδόμη από πάντων των έργων αυτού
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