Lexicon / G5101
τίς
tis
  • which?
  • who, which, what?
  • which, what?
  • who, what?
  • what?
  • why

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Glosses: which?

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.

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Abbott-Smith

Glosses: who, which, what?; which, what?; who, what?; what?; why

who, which, what?; which, what?; who, what?; what?; why; who? what? which?; how