Pantōs πάντως

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Pantōs
πάντως
Transliterationpantōs
Strong's numberG3843
LanguageGreek
Part of speechadverb
Glosssurely
Occurrences9 in 9 verses
Most frequent in1 Corinthians (4)

Pantōs (Greek πάντως, Strong's G3843) is a Greek adverb meaning “surely”. It occurs 9 times in 9 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

πάντως
adv. (πάς), [in LXX: 4Ki.5:11 (see Thackeray, Gr., 47), Tob.14:8, al. ;]
altogether, by all means;
(a) without neg. (from Hdt. on) : 1Co.16:12; esp. in strong affirmations, surely, at all events: Luk.4:23, Act.21:22 28:4, 1Co.9:10;
(b) with neg. (so always in mom.), in a complete negation: Rom.3:9; in a partial negation (Bl., § 75, 7), 1Co.5:10.†
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVmeans (2), altogether (2), surely (1), needs (1), doubt (1), wise (1), all (1)
BSBsurely (2), all (2), all possible means (1)

Verses

Every verse with Pantōs, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Luke

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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