πόσος (pόsos) — how many / how much / how extensive

Form 1

Part of speech: pirg.

Inflections: πόσος; -η, -ον

Related lemmas: ποσάκις

Sense 1: how many

Semantic entry: 59.5

Semantic domains: Quantity

Subdomains: Many, Few [Countables]

Definition: interrogative of quantity of objects or events, usually implying a considerable amount

Show passage in OET: MAT 15:34

OET-RV MAT 15:34

34 “How many buns do you have?” asked Yeshua.
¶ “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”

OET-LV MAT 15:34

34 And the Yaʸsous is _saying to _them:
How _many loaves are _you _all _having?
And they said:
Seven, and a_few little _fishes.

Show passage in OET: MAT 16:9

OET-RV MAT 16:9

9 Haven’t you understood what’s going on here yet? Don’t you remember that there were twelve baskets of leftovers when five buns were used to feed 5,000 families?

OET-LV MAT 16:9

9 You _all _are_ not _yet _understanding, neither are _you _all _remembering the five loaves of _the five _thousand, and how _many baskets you _all _took?

Jump to OET MAT 15:34 section.

Jump to OET MAT 16:9 section.

All 11 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 15:34 · OET MAT 16:9–10 · OET MAT 27:13

MRK: OET MRK 6:38 · OET MRK 8:5 · OET MRK 8:19–20 · OET MRK 15:4

LUK: OET LUK 15:17

ACT: OET ACT 21:20

Sense 2: how much, how extensive

Semantic entry: 59.17

Semantic domains: Quantity

Subdomains: Much, Little [Masses, Collectives, Extensions]

Definition: interrogative of quantity

Notes: In a number of languages it may be necessary in OET LUK 16:5 to employ an expression relating to countable objects, for example, ‘how many pieces of money do you owe my master?’ (see 59.5: πόσος).

Show passage in OET: MAT 7:11

OET-RV MAT 7:11

11 So if evil people know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more will your father in the heavens give good things to those who ask him?

OET-LV MAT 7:11

11 Therefore if you _all being evil, have _known to _be _giving good gifts to _the children of _you _all, to _how _much more the father of _you _all who is in the heavens will _be _giving good things to _the ones requesting him?

Show passage in OET: MAT 10:25

OET-RV MAT 10:25

25 The apprentice is happy to eventually become like their teacher, and the slave to become like their master. If they accuse the home owner of being a devil, then they’ll do that even more to other members of his household.

OET-LV MAT 10:25

25 it _is Sufficient for _the apprentice/follower that he _may _become as the teacher of _him, and the slave as the master of _him.
If they _called the home _owner Beʼelzeboul, to _how _much more the household of _him?

Jump to OET MAT 7:11 section.

Jump to OET MAT 10:25 section.

All 12 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 7:11 · OET MAT 10:25 · OET MAT 12:12

MRK: OET MRK 9:21

LUK: OET LUK 11:13 · OET LUK 12:24 · OET LUK 12:28 · OET LUK 16:5 · OET LUK 16:7

ROM: OET ROM 11:12 · OET ROM 11:24

PHM: OET PHM 1:16

Sense 3: how, very, how great, how much, intense, severe

Semantic entry: 78.13

Semantic domains: Degree

Subdomains: Much, Little [Positive-Negative Degree]

Definition: a relatively high point on a scale involving exclamation

Notes: In a number of languages an expression of high degree in an exclamation can only be reproduced as an expression of intensive degree in a non-exclamatory form. For example, the statement in OET MAT 6:23 ‘how great must the darkness be!’ must be rendered in a number of languages as ‘the darkness is very, very intense’ or ‘it is very, very dark there.’

Show passage in OET: MAT 6:23

OET-RV MAT 6:23