Lexicon / G4459
πῶς
pōs
  • how?!
  • how?

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Glosses: how?!

πῶς, interrog. adv. correl. of ὅπως,

__1. prop. in direct questions, how?: with indic. Mat.12:29, Mrk.3:23, Luk.11:18, Jhn.3:4, al.; καὶ π. Mrk.4:13, Luk.20:44; π. οὖν, Mat.12:26; π. οὐ, Mat.16:11, Luk.12:56; in deliberative questions (cf. Bl. §64, 6), with subjc. Mat.23:33 26:54; π. οὖν, Rom.10:14; π. δέ, Rom.10:14, 15; before ἄν, with optative, Act.8:31.

__2. As sometimes in cl. but more frequently and increasingly so in late writers (see WM, §57, 2; Bl. §70, 2; Thumb, MGr. 192; Jannaris, Gr. App. vi, 13f.), = ὅπως, ὥς;

__(a) in indirect discourse: with indic. Mat.6:28, Mrk.12:41, Luk.8:36, Jhn.9:15, Act.9:27, al.; with subjc. Mrk.11:18, Luk.12:11;

__(b) in exclamations: Mat.21:20, Mrk.10:23, 24 Luk.12:50 18:24, Jhn.11:36.

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Abbott-Smith

Glosses: how?

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