adverb
pōpote
Strong’sG4455
at any time, ever
stem pōpote-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πώ-ποτε,
adv.,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4455 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpo'-pot-e
at any time, i.e. (with negative particle) at no time
Fromfrom G4452 and G4218;
King Jamesat any time, + never (…to any man), + yet, never man.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(πω, ποτέ) ever yet, in early Epic dialect always with negative and best written divisim, οὐ γάρ πώ ποτέ μ᾽ ὧδέ γ᾽ ἔρως φρένας ἀμφεκάλυψεν Refs 8th c.BC+ (referring to future, οὐκ ἄν πώ ποτ᾽ ἐγώ.. ἐλθοίμην Refs 8th c.BC+future in later Gr., κακία οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται ἐν σοὶ πLXX; οὐ μὴ διψήσει π. NT; also οὐ μὴ γένωνται καθαραὶ π. Refs 2nd c.BC+; μηδ᾽ ὄψον.. μετὰ τούτου π. δαίσῃ Refs 4th c.BC+: with present, Refs; compare οὐ π., μὴ π., οὐδεπώποτε, μηδεπώποτε.
II sometimes, later, without a negative,
II.1 with questions which imply a negative (compare πω 11), ποῦ γὰρ π. ἄνευ νεφελῶν ὕοντ᾽ ἤδη τεθέασα; Refs 5th c.BC+; ἤδή π. του ἤκουσα; Refs 5th c.BC+future, τίς γὰρ ἁλώσεται π.; Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 with a conditional clause, εἴ που ξένον τις ἠδίκησε πώποτε Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 after Relatives, οὕς φαμεν πώποτέ τι.. πρᾶξαι Refs 4th c.BC+
II.4 with the Article and Part., οἱ π. γενόμενοι who ever yet existed, Refs 5th c.BC+: the Part. may be omitted, οἱ π. προδόται Refs 4th c.BC+; μεγίστους τῶν π. Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
pōpote6×
Luke 19:30… heuriskavi pōlon dorēnton, epi hon oudenos pōpote anthrōpoiu kathizata, kai luarantois auton agavar.… there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it …
John 1:18theon oudenos horatē pōpote; monogenos theos tos arōntos eis ton …No one has ever seen God, but the one and …
John 5:37“at any time”… marturatē peri mu. oute fōnan autou pōpote akouavē oute eidem autou horavē,… has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,
John 6:35“ever”… pisteuarōntos eis min ouk mē dipsati pōpote.… and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
John 8:33… Spermem Abraam anō kai oudeno douleuanē pōpote; pōs sis legasō hoti Eleutherois genevi?… Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can …
1 John 4:12theon oudenos pōpote theasotē; ean agapaneiō allēloin, tos theos …No one has ever seen God; but if we love …