Pote ποτέ

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Pote
ποτέ
Transliterationpote
Strong's numberG4218
LanguageGreek
Part of speechparticle
Glossonce/when
Occurrences29 in 28 verses
Most frequent inEphesians (6)

Pote (Greek ποτέ, Strong's G4218) is a Greek particle meaning “once/when”. It occurs 29 times in 28 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

ποτέ
enclitic particle,
1. once, formerly, sometime: of the past, Jhn.9:13 Rom.7:9 11:30, Gal.1:13, 23 2:6 (Lft., in l), Eph.2:2-3, 11 2:13 5:8, Col.1:21 3:7, 1Th.2:5, Tit.3:3, Phm 11, 1Pe.2:10 3:5 3:20; ἤδη ποτέ, now at length, Php.4:10; of the fut., Luk.22:32; εἴ πως ἤδη ποτέ, if sometime soon at length, Rom.1:10.
2. ever: after a neg., Eph.5:29, 2Pe.1:10 1:21; in a question, τίς π., 1Co.9:7, Heb.1:5, 13.†
(AS)

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

Translated as

KJVpast (8), time (7), sometimes (3), once (2), sometime (2), aforetime (1), length (1), yet (1), last (1)
BSBonce (6), formerly (4), last (2), one time (2), ever (2), had been (1), former (1), used (1), past (1), long ago (1)

Verses

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

Luke

John

Romans

1 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

Titus

Philemon

Hebrews

1 Peter

2 Peter

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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