τίς, neuter τί, genitive τίνος, interrogative pronoun (from Homer down);

1. who, which, what? the Sept. τίς for îÄé, τί for ξΘδ;

a. used adjectivally, in a direct question: τίς βασιλεύς, Luk 14:31; τίς γυνή, Luk 15:8; τί περισσόν, Mat 5:47; τί σημεῖον, Joh 2:18, and many other passages. in an indirect question, 1Th 4:2, etc.; τινα ἤ ποῖον καιρόν, 1Pe 1:11; used instead of a predicate in a direct question, τίς (namely, ἐστιν) ἡ αἰτία, Act 10:21; τίς καί ποταπή ἡ γυνή, Luk 7:39; add, Rom 3:1; 1Co 9:18, etc.; neuter, Mat 24:3; Mar 5:9; in an indirect question with the optative, Luk 8:9; τίς followed by ἄν, Joh 13:24 R G; Act 21:33 (R G); τί with the optative, Luk 15:26 (Tr WH add ἄν, so L brackets); Luk 18:36 (L brackets Tr brackets WH marginal reading add ἄν); with the indicative, Eph 1:18;

b. used alone or Substantively: in a direct question, τίς ὑπέδειξεν ὑμῖν φυγεῖν; Mat 3:7; Luk 3:7; Rev 18:18, etc.; τίνος, Mat 22:20; Mat 22:28; Mar 12:10; τίνι, Luk 13:18; τινα, Joh 18:4; Joh 18:7; τί θέλετε μοι δοῦναι; Mat 26:15; τί in an indirect question, followed by the indicative, Mat 6:3; Joh 13:12; 1Co 14:16; Rev 2:7; Rev 2:11; Rev 2:17, and very often; followed by the aorist subjunctive, Mat 6:25; Luk 12:11, etc.; followed by the optative with ἄν, Luk 1:62; Luk 6:11, etc. Emphatic words get prominence by being placed before the pronoun (Buttmann, § 151, 16): ὑμεῖς δέ τινα με λέγετε εἶναι, Mat 16:15; Mar 8:29; Luk 9:20; καί ἡμεῖς τί ποιήσομεν (or ποιήσωμεν), Luk 3:14; οὗτος δέ τί, Joh 21:21 (cf.

e. β.); add, Joh 1:19; Joh 8:5; Joh 9:17; Act 19:15; Rom 9:19 b (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 274 (257)),; ; Eph 4:9; Jas 4:12; examples from Greek writings are given in Passow, p. 1908b; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B. I. 1 b.). A question is often asked by τίς as the leading word, when the answer expected is no one: Act 8:33; Rom 7:24; Rom 8:33; Rom 9:19; Rom 10:16; Rom 11:34; 1Co 9:7; 2Co 11:29; Heb 1:5; Heb 1:13. τίς εἰ μή, who ... save (or but) (i. e. no one but), Mar 2:7; Luk 5:21; Rom 11:15; 1Co 2:11; Heb 3:18; 1Jn 2:22; 1Jn 5:5.

c. two questions are blended into one: τίς τί ἄρῃ, what each should take, Mar 15:24; τίς τί διεπραγματεύσατο, Luk 19:15 (not Tr WH); ἐγώ δέ τίς ἤμην δυνατός κωλῦσαι τόν Θεόν; who was I? was I able to withstand God? Act 11:17; cf. Winers Grammar, § 66, 5, 3; Passow, p. 1909{a}; Ast, Platonic Lexicon, iii., p. 394; Franz V. Fritzsche, Index ad Lucian, dial. deor., p. 164; the same construction occurs in Latin writings; cf. Ramshorn, Latin Gram., p. 567. τίς is joined with conjunctions: καί τίς, Mar 10:26; Luk 10:29; Luk 18:26; Rev 6:17 (see καί, I. 2 g.); τίς ἄρα, see ἄρα, 1; τίς οὖν, Luk 10:36 (here T WH omit; L Tr brackets οὖν); 1Co 9:18. τίς with a partitive genitive: Mat 22:28; Mar 12:23; Luk 10:36; Act 7:52; Heb 1:5; Heb 1:13; with ἐκ and a genitive of the class, Mat 6:27; Luk 14:28; Joh 8:46; in an indirect question with the optative, Luk 22:23 (cf. Winer’s Grammar, § 41 b. 4 c.); with ἄν added, Luk 9:46.

d. in indirect questions the neuter article is sometimes placed before the pronouns τίς and τί; see ὁ, II. 10 a. e. Respecting the neuter τί the following particulars may be noted: α. τί οὗτοι σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν; a condensed expression for τί τοῦτο ἐστιν, ὁ οὗτοι σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν; Mat 26:62; Mar 14:60 (Buttmann, 251 (216) explains this expression differently); also τί τοῦτο ἀκούω περί σου; ((R. V.)) what is this (that) I hear of thee? (unless preference be given to the rendering, ’why do I hear this of thee’ (see under β. below)), Luk 16:2; cf. Bornemann at the passage; (Winer’s Grammar, § 66, 5, 3). β. τί πρός ἡμᾶς; namely, ἐστιν, what is that to us? (Winers Grammar, 586 (545); Buttmann, 138 (121)), Mat 27:4; Joh 21:22; τί ἐμοί καί σοι; see ἐγώ, 4; τί μοι etc. what have I to do with etc. 1Co 5:12; τί σοι or ὑμῖν δοκεῖ; (what thinkest thou etc.), Mat 17:25; Mat 22:17; Mat 22:42; Mat 26:66; Joh 11:56 (here before ὅτι supply in thought δοκεῖ ὑμῖν, to introduce a second question (R. V. What think ye? That he will not come etc.)). τί θέλεις; and τί θέλετε; followed by a subjunctive, our what wilt thou (that) I should etc.: Mat 20:32 (here Lachmann brackets inserts ἵνα); Mar 10:51; Mar 15:12 (WH omits; Tr brackets θέλετε); Luk 18:41; 1Co 4:21; τί with the deliberative subjunctive: Mat 6:31; Mat 27:22; Mar 4:30 (here L marginal reading T Tr text WH πῶς); Luk 12:17; Luk 13:18; Joh 12:27; τί followed by a future: Act 4:16 (where Lachmann’s stereotyped edition; T Tr WH ποιήσωμεν); 1Co 15:29; τί (namely, ἐστιν (Buttmann, 358 (307); Winer’s Grammar, § 64, 2 a.)) ὅτι etc., how is it that, etc. i. e. why etc., Mar 2:16 R G L; Luk 2:49; Act 5:4; Act 5:9; τί γέγονεν, ὅτι etc. (R. V. what is come to pass that etc.), Joh 14:22; οὗτος δέ τί (namely, ἔσται or γενήσεται (Winers Grammar, 586 (546); Buttmann, 394 (338))), what will be his lot? Joh 21:21 (cf. Act 12:18 τί ἄρα ὁ Πέτρος ἐγένετο; Xenophon, Hell. 2, 3, 17 τί ἐσοιτο ἡ πολιτεία). τί equivalent to διά τί, why? wherefore? (Matthiae, § 488,8; Krüger, § 46, 3 Anm. 4; (Winer’s Grammar, § 21,3 N. 2)): Mat 6:28; Mat 7:3; Mar 2:7; Mar 11:3; Luk 2:48; Luk 6:41; Luk 12:57; Luk 24:38; Joh 7:19; Joh 18:23; Act 14:15; Act 26:8; Rom 3:7; Rom 9:19; 1Co 4:7; 1Co 10:30; 1Co 15:29; Gal 3:19; Gal 5:11; Col 2:20, and often. ἵνα τί or ἱνατί, see under the word, p. 305a. διά τί (or διατί (see διά, B. II. 2 a., p. 134b)), why? wherefore? Mat 9:11; Mat 9:14; Mat 13:10; Mar 7:5; Mar 11:31; Luk 19:23; Luk 19:31; Joh 7:45; Joh 13:37; Act 5:3; 1Co 6:7; 2Co 11:11; Rev 17:7, and often. εἰς τί, to what? to what end? to what purpose? Mat 14:31; Mat 26:8; Mar 14:4; Mar 15:34 (Wis 4:17; Sir 39:21). τί οὖν, etc. why then, etc.: Mat 17:10; Mat 19:7; Mat 27:22; Mar 12:9; Luk 20:15; Joh 1:25; see also in οὖν, b. α.; τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν, see ibid. τί γάρ; see γάρ, II. 5. γ. Hebraistically for îÈä, how, how greatly, how much, with adjectives and verbs in exclamations (Winers Grammar, § 21 N. 3; cf. Buttmann, 254 (218)): Mat 7:14 G L Tr; Luk 12:49 (on this see εἰ, I. 4 at the end), (Psa 3:2; 2Sa 6:20; Son 1:10; τί πολύ τό ἀγαθόν σου; Symm. Psalm 30:19).

2. equivalent to πότερος, ποτερα, πότερον, whether of two, which of the two: Mat 21:31; Mat 23:17 (here L τί; see below); ; Luk 22:27; neuter τί, Mat 9:5; ( Lachmann, ); Mar 2:9; Luk 5:23; Php 1:22; cf. Ast, Platonic Lexicon, iii., p. 394 Matthiae, § 488, 4; Winer’s Grammar, 169 (159).

3. equivalent to ποῖος, ποίᾳ, ποῖον, of what sort, what (kind): Mar 1:27; Mar 6:2; Luk 4:36; Luk 8:9; Luk 24:17; Joh 7:36; Act 17:19; 1Co 15:2; Eph 1:18 f. Cf. Hermann on Viger, p. 731.

4. By a somewhat inaccurate usage, yet one not unknown to Greek writings, it is put for the relatives ὅς and ὅστις: thus, τινα (L T Tr WH τί) με ὑπονοεῖτε εἶναι, οὐκ εἰμί ἐγώ (where one would expect ὅν). Act 13:25; δοθήσεται ὑμῖν, τί λαλήσετε (λαλήσητε T Tr WH; L brackets the clausel, Mat 10:19; ἑτοίμασον, τί δειπνήσω, Luk 17:8; (οἶδα τινας ἐξελεξάμην, Joh 13:18 T Tr text WH); especially after ἔχειν (as in the Greek writings): οὐκ ἔχουσι, τί φάγωσιν, Mat 15:32; Mar 6:36; Mar 8:1 f; cf. Winers Grammar, § 25, 1; Buttmann, 251 (216); on the distinction between the Latinhabeo quid and habeo quod cf. Ramshorn, Latin Gram., p. 565f.