Posos πόσος

Posos (Greek πόσος, Strong's G4214) is a Greek correlative pronoun meaning “how much/many?”. It occurs 27 times in 27 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

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

Translated as

Verses

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

Matthew

• Matthew 6:23
  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Matthew 7:11
  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
• Matthew 10:25
  It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
• Matthew 12:12
  How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
• Matthew 15:34
  And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”
• Matthew 16:9
  Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
• Matthew 16:10
  Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
• Matthew 27:13
  Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?Then Pilate asked Him, “Do You not hear how many charges they are bringing against You?”

Mark

• Mark 6:38
  He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.“Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.”
• Mark 8:5
  And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.
• Mark 8:19
  When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.
• Mark 8:20
  And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.
• Mark 9:21
  And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
• Mark 15:4
  And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Have You no answer? Look how many charges they are bringing against You!”

Luke

• Luke 11:13
  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
• Luke 12:24
  Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
• Luke 12:28
  If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
• Luke 15:17
  And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
• Luke 16:5
  So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
• Luke 16:7
  Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

Acts

• Acts 21:20
  And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.

Romans

• Romans 11:12
  Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
• Romans 11:24
  For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 7:11
  For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Philemon

• Philemon 1:16
  Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.

Hebrews

• Hebrews 9:14
  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
• Hebrews 10:29
  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

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).