adverb
posakis
Strong’sG4212
how often
stem posaki-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
ποσάκις,
interrog. num. adv.,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4212 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpos-ak'-is
how many times
Frommultiplicative from G4214;
King Jameshow oft(-en).
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
adverb how many times? how often? Refs 5th c.BC+; poetry ποσσάκι Refs 3rd c.BC+
II Indef., so many times, οἱ π. ποσοὶ [ἀριθμοί], i.e. square numbers, and οἱ π. π. ποσοί cubes, Refs 4th 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
posakis3×
Matthew 18:21“how often”… prosercharantos auto tos Petros legata; Kurior, posakis hamartati eis min tos adelfos mu …Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to …
Matthew 23:37… kai lithobolarōntar toin apostelorēntoin pros autan posakis thelama episunagara teim tekneim su, hon …… and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your …
Luke 13:34… kai lithobolarōntar toin apostelorēntoin pros autan posakis thelama episunagara teim tekneim su hon …… and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your …