Strong’s G4459 · Greek

πῶς
pōs

Definition

an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!

Etymology

adverb from the base of G4226 (ποῦ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • how
  • after (by) what manner (means)
  • that

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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