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Koine Greek wordlink #127026

SR GNT Gal 4:11 πώς (pōs) ‘I am fearing for you_all lest somehow vainly I have laboured for’ Strongs=44580 Lemma=pōs
Word role=adverb
Year=58 AD

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Other uses (13) of identical word form πώς (D-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πώς’ (D-···) is always and only glossed as ‘somehow’.

Acts 27:12 ‘to_be launched from_there if somehow they might_be able having arrived at’ SR GNT Acts 27:12 word 16

OET-LV: 12 And the harbour being unsuitable to winter, the more presented a_counsel to _be _launched from _there, if somehow they _might _be _able, having _arrived at Foinix, to _winter a_harbour of_ the _Kraʸtaʸ, looking to the_southwest and to the_northwest. (ACT_27:12)

OET-RV: 12 They realised that this harbour wasn’t suitable to winter in, so the majority suggested leaving there with the expectation of being able to get to Crete to winter in the harbour at Phoenix (which was open to both the southwest and the northwest). (ACT 27:12)

Rom 1:10 ‘of me beseeching if somehow now once I will_be_being prospered’ SR GNT Rom 1:10 word 8

OET-LV: 10 always on the prayers of _me, beseeching if somehow now once I _will _be _being _prospered by the will of_ the _god, to _come to you _all. (ROM_1:10)

OET-RV: 10 in my prayers—asking that somehow God will favour me by allowing me to come to visit you (ROM 1:10)

Rom 11:14 ‘somehow I may make_jealous of me the’ SR GNT Rom 11:14 word 2

OET-LV: 14 if somehow I _may _make _jealous of _me the flesh, and I _may _save some from them. (ROM_11:14)

OET-RV: 14 hoping that somehow I might make my fellow Jews envious and might save some of them. (ROM 11:14)

1 Cor 8:9 ‘be watching_out but lest somehow right of you_all this’ SR GNT 1 Cor 8:9 word 4

OET-LV: 9 But be _watching _out lest somehow the right of _you _all this, a_stumbling may _become to _the weak. (CO1_8:9)

OET-RV: 9 However, be careful in case your freedom becomes a reason that weaker believers might get confused and stumble in their spiritual walk. (CO1 8:9)

1 Cor 9:27 ‘and I am enslaving it not somehow to others having proclaimed myself’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:27 word 9

OET-LV: 27 but I _am _beating of _me the body, and I _am _enslaving it, not somehow to _others having _proclaimed, myself unqualified I _may _become. (CO1_9:27)

OET-RV: 27 but I discipline my body and make it serve me, because after preaching to others, I don’t want to end up disqualified myself. (CO1 9:27)

2 Cor 2:7 ‘and to comfort him lest somehow with the more_abundant sorrow’ SR GNT 2 Cor 2:7 word 9

OET-LV: 7 so _that instead rather you _all are to _forgive and to _comfort him, lest somehow with _the more _abundant sorrow, may _be _swallowed _up the such one. (CO2_2:7)

OET-RV: 7 so now you should forgive and comfort him in case excess pain should drive him out. (CO2 2:7)

2 Cor 9:4 ‘not somehow if may come with’ SR GNT 2 Cor 9:4 word 2

OET-LV: 4 Not somehow if may _come with me ones_from _Makedonia, and they _may _find you _all unprepared, may _be _disgraced we, in _order _that not we _may _be _saying you _all, by the confidence this. (CO2_9:4)

OET-RV: 4 Otherwise if somehow some might come with me from Macedonia and find you unprepared, then we (or might we say you all as well) might be disgraced by our confidence. (CO2 9:4)

2 Cor 11:3 ‘I am fearing but lest somehow as the serpent’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:3 word 4

OET-LV: 3 But I _am _fearing, lest somehow as the serpent deceived Heua/(Ḩavvāh) in the craftiness of _him, it _may _be _corrupted the thinking of _you _all from the sincerity and the purity which in the chosen _one /messiah. (CO2_11:3)

OET-RV: 3 But I’m afraid that just as the crafty serpent somehow deceived Heva (Eve), your thinking might get corrupted from its sincerity and purity in the messiah. (CO2 11:3)

2 Cor 12:20 ‘I am fearing for lest somehow having come not such_as’ SR GNT 2 Cor 12:20 word 4

OET-LV: 20 For/Because I _am _fearing, lest somehow having _come not such _as I _am _wanting, I _may _find you _all, and _I may _be _found by _you _all such _as not you _all _are _wanting, lest somehow strife, jealousy, rages, selfish _ambitions, slanders, gossips, conceits, disturbances, (CO2_12:20)

OET-RV: 20 You see, I’m worried that when I come, I might not find you living how I’d want, and you all might not find me how you’d want. I’m worried that I might find strife and jealousy, anger and selfish ambition, slander and gossip, and conceit and disturbances. (CO2 12:20)

2 Cor 12:20 ‘not you_all are wanting lest somehow strife jealousy rages’ SR GNT 2 Cor 12:20 word 18

Gal 2:2 ‘to the ones supposing lest somehow in vain I may_be running’ SR GNT Gal 2:2 word 21

OET-LV: 2 and I _went _up according _to a_revelation, and I _placed _before before _them the good _message that I _am _proclaiming among the pagans, by but myself to _the ones supposing, lest somehow I _may _be _running or I _ran in vain. (GAL_2:2)

OET-RV: 2 God had told me to go there, and I explained to the leaders there the good message that I’d been proclaiming to the non-Jews. I did it privately, to double-check that I wasn’t somehow just acting vainly. (GAL 2:2)

Php 3:11 ‘if somehow I may attain to the’ SR GNT Php 3:11 word 2

OET-LV: 11 if somehow I _may _attain to the resurrection which from the_dead. (PHP_3:11)

OET-RV: 11 if somehow I can also be given life after death. (PHP 3:11)

1 Th 3:5 ‘faith of you_all lest somehow tempted you_all the one’ SR GNT 1 Th 3:5 word 15

OET-LV: 5 Because _of this also _I no _longer enduring, I _sent in _order that to _know the faith of _you _all, lest somehow tempted you _all the one tempting, and in vain may _become the labour of _us. (TH1_3:5)

OET-RV: 5 So again when I could no longer endure it, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith, just in case you’d been tempted by the tempter and then our work there would have been wasted. (TH1 3:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pōs’ have 2 different glosses: ‘how’, ‘somehow’.

Key: D=adverb