πότε
when
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short, often untranslatable function word adding nuance or connection.
Degree
- Interrogative
- Marks an interrogative form.
Every verse where G4219 appears — 17 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 6 verses
- Matthew 17:17 πότε πότε ptcl interrog ptcl interrog Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."
- Matthew 24:3 πότε ptcl interrog As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
- Matthew 25:37 πότε ptcl interrog "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
- Matthew 25:38 πότε ptcl interrog When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
- Matthew 25:39 πότε ptcl interrog When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
- Matthew 25:44 πότε ptcl interrog "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 9:19 πότε πότε ptcl interrog ptcl interrog He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
- Mark 13:4 πότε ptcl interrog "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
- Mark 13:33 πότε ptcl interrog Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
- Mark 13:35 πότε ptcl interrog Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 9:41 πότε ptcl interrog Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
- Luke 12:36 πότε ptcl interrog Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
- Luke 17:20 πότε ptcl interrog Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;
- Luke 21:7 πότε ptcl interrog They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"
John 2 verses
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb ποτε centers on the idea of “when.” Debuting at Matthew 17:17, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 17 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (35%), then Mark and Luke. It shares a root with που, ποιος and ποτερον. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4219 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #644
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 644 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 17 distinct verses.
- Gospels 16 verses · 94%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 24%
- Johannine 3 verses · 18%
- Revelation 1 verse · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: When 11×, Long 2×
- American Standard Version: When 12×, Long 4×, How long 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: When 8×, Will 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: When 18×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4219 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4219 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4219 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 23 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4219 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- when?, at what time?
Word origin
Derived from που (poû) (G4226) — somewhere.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4219, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
