Strong’s G4226 · Greek

ποῦ
poû

Definition

as adverb of place; at (by implication, to) what locality

Etymology

genitive case of an interrogative pronoun (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as G4225 (πού) used with the rising slide of inquiry);

Where the KJV renders it

  • where
  • whither

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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