poios · what kind of?

What it means

poios (ποῖος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “what kind of?”.

Which? what kind of?

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A question about the kind or identity of something among several options.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• what ×28
• which ×4
• how ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×4
• Luke×8
• John×4
• Acts×4
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• James×1
• 1 Peter×2
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 19:18

  He says to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness;

• Matthew 21:23

  And when he had come into the temple, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, saying, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?”

• Matthew 21:24

  And Jesus answered and said to them, “I also will ask you one thing, which, if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.

• Matthew 21:27

  And they answered Jesus and said, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

• Matthew 22:36

  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

• Matthew 24:42

  So keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

• Matthew 24:43

  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

• Mark 11:28

  and they were saying to him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”

• Mark 11:29

  But Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

• Mark 11:33

  And they answered Jesus and say, “We do not know.” And Jesus says to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

• Mark 12:28

  And one of the scribes came up, having heard them debating, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is first of all?”

• Luke 5:19

  And not finding how they could bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with the stretcher into the middle, in front of Jesus.

• Luke 6:32

  And if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

• Luke 6:33

  And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

• Luke 6:34

  And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners so that they may receive back the same amount.

• Luke 12:39

  But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

• Luke 20:2

  and they spoke, saying to him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is the one who gave you this authority?”

• Luke 20:8

  And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

• Luke 24:19

  And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a man, a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

• John 10:32

  Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these works are you stoning me?”

• John 12:33

  He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

• John 18:32

  This was so that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he had spoken, showing by what kind of death he was going to die.

• John 21:19

  He said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, “Follow me.”

• Acts 4:7

  and having set them in the middle, they were inquiring, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”

• Acts 7:49

  ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

• Acts 23:34

  And when he had read it and asked from what province he was, and learned that he was from Cilicia,

• Romans 3:27

  Where, then, is boasting? It was excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

• 1 Corinthians 15:35

  But someone will say, How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?

• James 4:14

  you who do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

• 1 Peter 1:11

  inquiring into what person or what kind of time the Spirit of the Messiah in them was indicating when he testified beforehand to the sufferings for the Messiah and the glories after these things.

• 1 Peter 2:20

  For what credit is there if, when you sin and are beaten, you endure it? But if when you do good and suffer you endure it, this is grace before God.

• Revelation 3:3

  Remember, then, how you have received and heard, and keep it, and change your mind. If, then, you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come upon you.

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