posos · how much, how many

What it means

posos (πόσος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “how much, how many”.

How much, how great; how many.

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. Asks about amount; with more, points to something far greater.

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

How it is translated

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

• how much ×13
• how many ×11
• how ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×8
• Mark×6
• Luke×6
• Acts×1
• Romans×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×2

• Matthew 6:23

  but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

• Matthew 7:11

  If then you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his household!

• Matthew 12:12

  How much more valuable, then, is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

• Matthew 15:34

  And Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

• Matthew 16:9

  Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

• Matthew 16:10

  Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?

• Matthew 27:13

  Then Pilate says to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?”

• Mark 6:38

  But he says to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go, see.” And when they found out, they say, “Five, and two fish.”

• Mark 8:5

  And he was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”

• Mark 8:19

  when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?” They say to him, “Twelve.”

• Mark 8:20

  “And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” And they say to him, “Seven.”

• Mark 9:21

  And he asked his father, “How long is it since this has been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood;

• Mark 15:4

  And Pilate again was questioning him, saying, “Do you not answer anything? See how many things they are accusing you of.”

• Luke 11:13

  So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

• Luke 12:24

  Consider the ravens, that they do not sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds!

• Luke 12:28

  But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith!

• Luke 15:17

  But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough bread, but I am perishing here with hunger!

• Luke 16:5

  And summoning each one of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

• Luke 16:7

  Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

• Acts 21:20

  And when they heard it, they glorified God, and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

• Romans 11:12

  Now if their trespass is riches for the world and their failure riches for the nations, how much more their fullness!

• Romans 11:24

  For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

• 2 Corinthians 7:11

  For look at this very thing, being grieved according to God: how much earnestness it produced in you, even defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even punishment! In everything you showed yourselves to be pure in the matter.

• Philemon 1:16

  no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled on the Son of God, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?