Pōs πως

Pōs (Greek πως, Strong's G4458) is a Greek particle meaning “how”. It occurs 16 times in 15 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

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

Verses

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

Acts

• Acts 27:12
  And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.
• Acts 27:29
  Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

Romans

• Romans 1:10
  Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.
• Romans 11:14
  If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
• Romans 11:21
  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 8:9
  But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
• 1 Corinthians 9:27
  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 2:7
  So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
• 2 Corinthians 9:4
  Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
• 2 Corinthians 11:3
  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
• 2 Corinthians 12:20
  For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians

• Galatians 2:2
  And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.
• Galatians 4:11
  I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

Philippians

• Philippians 3:11
  If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

1 Thessalonians

• 1 Thessalonians 3:5
  For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.

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).