Tis τίς

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Tis
τίς
Transliterationtis
Strong's numberG5101
LanguageGreek
Part of speechinterrogative pronoun
Glosswhich?
Occurrences567 in 509 verses
Most frequent inLuke (107)

Tis (Greek τίς, Strong's G5101) is a Greek interrogative pronoun meaning “which?”. It occurs 567 times in 509 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

τίς, neut., τί, genitive, τίνος, interrog. pron., [in LXX for מָה ,מִי ;] in masc. and fem.,
who, which, what?; in neut., which, what?, used both in direct and in indirect questions.
I. I. As subst.,
1. 1. masc., fem.: τίς; who, what?, Mat.3:7 26:68; Mrk.11:28, Luk.9:9, al. mult.; with genitive partit., Act.7:52, Heb.1:5, al; before ἐκ (= genitive partit.), Mat.6:27, Luk.14:28, Jhn.8:46; = ποῖος, Mrk.4:41 6:2, Luk.19:3, Act.17:19, al.; = πότερος (M, Pr., 77), Mat.21:31 27:17, Luk.22:27, al.; = ὅς or ὅστις (rare in cl.; cf. Bl., §50, 5; M, Pr., 93), Act.13:25.
2. Neut.: τί; what?, Mat.5:47 11:7, Mrk.10:3, al.; χάριν τίνος, 1Jn.3:12; διὰ τί, Mat.9:11, al.; εἰς τί, Mat.14:31, al.; elliptically, ἵνα τί (sc. γένηται), why, Mat.9:5, al.; τί οὖν, Rom.3:9 6:1, 15 1Co.14:15, al.; τί γάρ, Rom.3:3, Phi 1:18; τί ἐμοὶ (ὑμῖν) καὶ σοί, see: ἔγω.
II. As adj.: who? what? which?, Mat.5:46, Luk.14:31, Jhn.2:18, al.
III. As adv.: = διὰ τι (τί ὅτι), why, Mat.6:28, Mrk.4:40, Luk.6:46, Jhn.18:23, al.; in rhet. questions, = a negation, Mat.27:4, Jhn.21:22, 23 1Co.5:12 7:16, al. in exclamations (like Heb. מָה), how (2Ki.6:20, Psa.3:2, al.), Luk.12:49.
(AS)

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

Translated as

KJVwhat (256), who (102), why (88), whom (24), which (19), whose (9), whether (8), how (7), whereunto (5), wherefore (5), wherewith (4), it (2), and 21 other renderings
BSBwhat (230), who (118), why (77), which (25), whom (13), how (11), whose (7), something (2), what else (1), each one (1), way (1), which of them (1), and 9 other renderings

Verses

Tis occurs in 509 verses, listed here by reference.

Matthew (82): 3:7, 5:13, 5:46, 5:47, 6:3, 6:25, 6:27, 6:28, 6:31, 7:3, 7:9, 7:14, 8:26, 8:29, 9:5, 9:11, 9:13, 9:14, 10:11, 10:19, 11:7, 11:8, 11:9, 11:16, 12:3, 12:7, 12:11, 12:27, 12:48, 13:10, 14:31, 15:2, 15:3, 15:32, 16:8, 16:13, 16:15, 16:26, 17:10, 17:19, 17:25, 18:1, 18:12, 19:7, 19:16, 19:17, 19:20, 19:25, 19:27, 20:6, 20:21, 20:22, 20:32, 21:10, 21:16, 21:23, 21:25, 21:28, 21:31, 21:40, 22:17, 22:18, 22:20, 22:28, 22:42, 23:17, 23:19, 24:3, 24:45, 26:8, 26:10, 26:15, 26:62, 26:65, 26:66, 26:68, 26:70, 27:4, 27:17, 27:21, 27:22, 27:23

Mark (69): 1:24, 1:27, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:16, 2:18, 2:24, 2:25, 3:33, 4:24, 4:30, 4:40, 4:41, 5:7, 5:9, 5:14, 5:30, 5:31, 5:35, 5:39, 6:2, 6:24, 6:36, 7:5, 8:1, 8:2, 8:12, 8:17, 8:27, 8:29, 8:36, 8:37, 9:6, 9:10, 9:16, 9:33, 9:34, 9:50, 10:3, 10:17, 10:18, 10:26, 10:36, 10:38, 10:51, 11:3, 11:5, 11:28, 11:31, 12:9, 12:15, 12:16, 12:23, 13:4, 13:11, 14:4, 14:6, 14:36, 14:40, 14:60, 14:63, 14:64, 14:68, 15:12, 15:14, 15:24, 15:34, 16:3

Luke (107): 1:18, 1:62, 1:66, 2:48, 2:49, 3:7, 3:10, 3:12, 3:14, 4:34, 4:36, 5:21, 5:22, 5:23, 5:30, 5:33, 6:2, 6:11, 6:41, 6:46, 6:47, 7:24, 7:25, 7:26, 7:31, 7:39, 7:42, 7:49, 8:9, 8:25, 8:28, 8:30, 8:45, 9:9, 9:18, 9:20, 9:25, 9:46, 10:22, 10:25, 10:26, 10:29, 10:36, 11:5, 11:11, 11:19, 12:5, 12:11, 12:14, 12:17, 12:20, 12:22, 12:25, 12:26, 12:29, 12:42, 12:49, 12:57, 13:18, 13:20, 14:5, 14:28, 14:31, 14:34, 15:4, 15:8, 15:26, 16:2, 16:3, 16:4, 16:11, 16:12, 17:7, 17:8, 18:6, 18:18, 18:19, 18:26, 18:36, 18:41, 19:3, 19:15, 19:23, 19:31, 19:33, 19:48, 20:2, 20:5, 20:13, 20:15, 20:17, 20:23, 20:24, 20:33, 21:7, 22:23, 22:24, 22:27, 22:46, 22:64, 22:71, 23:22, 23:31, 23:34, 24:5, 24:17, 24:38

John (70): 1:19, 1:21, 1:22, 1:25, 1:38, 2:4, 2:18, 2:25, 4:10, 4:27, 5:12, 5:13, 6:6, 6:9, 6:28, 6:30, 6:60, 6:64, 6:68, 7:19, 7:20, 7:36, 7:45, 7:51, 8:5, 8:25, 8:43, 8:46, 8:53, 9:2, 9:17, 9:21, 9:26, 9:27, 9:36, 10:6, 10:20, 11:47, 11:56, 12:5, 12:27, 12:34, 12:38, 12:49, 13:12, 13:18, 13:22, 13:24, 13:25, 13:28, 13:37, 14:22, 15:15, 16:17, 16:18, 18:4, 18:7, 18:21, 18:23, 18:29, 18:35, 18:38, 19:24, 20:13, 20:15, 21:12, 21:20, 21:21, 21:22, 21:23

Acts (55): 1:11, 2:12, 2:37, 3:12, 4:9, 4:16, 5:3, 5:4, 5:9, 5:24, 5:35, 7:27, 7:35, 7:40, 7:49, 7:52, 8:33, 8:34, 8:36, 9:4, 9:5, 9:6, 10:4, 10:6, 10:17, 10:21, 10:29, 11:17, 12:18, 13:25, 14:15, 15:10, 16:30, 17:18, 17:19, 17:20, 19:3, 19:15, 19:32, 19:35, 21:13, 21:22, 21:33, 22:7, 22:8, 22:10, 22:16, 22:26, 22:30, 23:19, 24:20, 25:26, 26:8, 26:14, 26:15

Romans (37): 3:1, 3:3, 3:5, 3:7, 3:9, 4:1, 4:3, 6:1, 6:15, 6:21, 7:7, 7:24, 8:24, 8:26, 8:27, 8:31, 8:33, 8:34, 8:35, 9:14, 9:19, 9:20, 9:30, 9:32, 10:6, 10:7, 10:8, 10:16, 11:2, 11:4, 11:7, 11:15, 11:34, 11:35, 12:2, 14:4, 14:10

1 Corinthians (22): 2:11, 2:16, 3:5, 4:7, 4:21, 5:12, 6:7, 7:16, 9:7, 9:18, 10:19, 10:30, 11:22, 14:6, 14:8, 14:15, 14:16, 14:26, 15:2, 15:29, 15:30, 15:32

2 Corinthians (8): 2:2, 2:16, 6:14, 6:15, 6:16, 11:11, 11:29, 12:13

Galatians (6): 3:1, 3:19, 4:30, 5:7, 5:11, 6:15

Ephesians (8): 1:18, 1:19, 3:9, 3:18, 4:9, 5:10, 5:17, 6:21

Philippians (2): 1:18, 1:22

Colossians (2): 1:27, 2:20

1 Thessalonians (3): 2:19, 3:9, 4:2

1 Timothy (1): 1:7

2 Timothy (1): 3:14

Titus (1): 1:6

Hebrews (10): 1:5, 1:13, 2:6, 3:16, 3:17, 3:18, 7:11, 11:32, 12:7, 13:6

James (4): 2:14, 2:16, 3:13, 4:12

1 Peter (3): 1:11, 3:13, 4:17

1 John (4): 2:22, 3:2, 3:12, 5:5

Revelation (14): 2:7, 2:11, 2:17, 2:29, 3:6, 3:13, 3:22, 5:2, 6:17, 7:13, 13:4, 15:4, 17:7, 18:18

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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