πῶς pōs

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: how, after (by) what manner (means), that

Derivation: adverb from the base of G4226 (ποῦ);

Where it is used

• Matthew 6:28 And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
• Matthew 7:4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
• Matthew 10:19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.
• Matthew 12:4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
• Matthew 12:26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?
• Matthew 12:29 Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
• Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
• Matthew 16:11 How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Matthew 21:20 When the disciples saw this, they marveled and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”
• Matthew 22:12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
• Matthew 22:43 Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
• Matthew 22:45 So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”
• Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
• Matthew 26:54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”
• Mark 2:26 During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
• Mark 3:23 So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
• Mark 4:13 Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
• Mark 4:30 Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?
• Mark 4:40 “Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”
• Mark 5:16 Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.
• Mark 8:21 Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?”
• Mark 9:12 He replied, “Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected?
• Mark 10:23 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
• Mark 10:24 And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
• Mark 11:18 When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
• Mark 12:26 But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
• Mark 12:35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?
• Mark 12:41 As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.
• Mark 14:1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
• Mark 14:11 They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
• Luke 1:34 “How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
• Luke 6:42 How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Luke 8:18 Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
• Luke 8:36 Meanwhile, those who had seen it reported how the demon-possessed man had been healed.
• Luke 10:26 “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
• Luke 11:18 If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.
• Luke 12:11 When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.
• Luke 12:27 Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
• Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
• Luke 12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?
• Luke 14:7 When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:
• Luke 18:24 Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
• Luke 20:41 Then Jesus declared, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David?
• Luke 20:44 Thus David calls Him ‘Lord.’ So how can He be David’s son?”
• Luke 22:2 and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death, for they feared the people.
• Luke 22:4 And Judas went to discuss with the chief priests and temple officers how he might betray Jesus to them.
• John 3:4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
• John 3:9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
• John 3:12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
• John 4:9 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
• John 5:44 How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
• John 5:47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
• John 6:42 They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
• John 6:52 At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
• John 7:15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
• John 8:33 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
• John 9:10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
• John 9:15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
• John 9:16 Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
• John 9:19 and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”