τίς
a certain
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Indefinite pronoun
- Refers to someone or something unspecified (“someone,” “anything”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5100 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 53 distinct verses. 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.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 1:15 τις indef.pron nom sg masc so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
- 1 Corinthians 1:16 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)
- 1 Corinthians 2:2 τι indef.pron acc sg neut For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
- 1 Corinthians 3:4 τις indef.pron nom sg masc For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
- 1 Corinthians 3:7 τι indef.pron nom sg neut So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- 1 Corinthians 3:12 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
- 1 Corinthians 3:14 τινος indef.pron gen sg masc If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
- 1 Corinthians 3:15 τινος indef.pron gen sg masc If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 τις indef.pron nom sg masc If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
- 1 Corinthians 3:18 τις indef.pron nom sg masc Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- 1 Corinthians 4:2 τις indef.pron nom sg masc Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- 1 Corinthians 4:18 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1 τινα indef.pron acc sg fem It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 τις indef.pron nom sg masc Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:12 τινος indef.pron gen sg neut "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
- 1 Corinthians 7:12 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
- 1 Corinthians 7:13 τις indef.pron nom sg fem The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:18 τις τις indef.pron nom sg masc indef.pron nom sg masc Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
- 1 Corinthians 7:36 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.
- 1 Corinthians 8:2 τις τι indef.pron nom sg masc indef.pron acc sg neut But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
- 1 Corinthians 8:3 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
- 1 Corinthians 8:7 τινὲς indef.pron nom pl masc However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 τις indef.pron nom sg masc For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Corinthians 9:12 τινα indef.pron acc sg fem If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 9:22 τινὰς indef.pron acc pl masc To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10 τινὲς indef.pron nom pl masc Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
- 1 Corinthians 10:19 τί τί indef.pron nom sg neut indef.pron nom sg neut What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- 1 Corinthians 10:27 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
- 1 Corinthians 10:28 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
- 1 Corinthians 10:31 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:16 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 11:18 τι indef.pron acc sg neut For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
- 1 Corinthians 11:34 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
- 1 Corinthians 14:24 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
- 1 Corinthians 14:27 τις indef.pron nom sg masc If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
- 1 Corinthians 14:35 τι indef.pron nom sg neut If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 τις indef.pron nom sg masc If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 14:38 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
- 1 Corinthians 15:6 τινὲς indef.pron nom pl masc Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
- 1 Corinthians 15:12 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- 1 Corinthians 15:34 τινες indef.pron nom pl masc Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- 1 Corinthians 15:35 τις indef.pron nom sg masc But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"
- 1 Corinthians 15:37 τινος indef.pron gen sg masc That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
- 1 Corinthians 16:2 τι indef.pron acc sg neut On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
- 1 Corinthians 16:7 τινὰ indef.pron acc sg masc For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
- 1 Corinthians 16:11 τις indef.pron nom sg masc Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
- 1 Corinthians 16:22 τις indef.pron nom sg masc If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
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.
τις (tìs) is a Greek word most often rendered “a certain.” Translators differ — “certain” in the King James Version, then “anyone” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 483 verses across 27 books, a common footprint. It first appears in Matthew 5:23. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5100 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 →
- 483
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 483 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #38
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 38 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 483 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 109 verses 23%
- Luke 75 verses 16%
- 1 Corinthians 53 verses 11%
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 483 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 184 verses · 38%
- Gospels 177 verses · 37%
- Pauline corpus 138 verses · 29%
- Johannine 68 verses · 14%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 29 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 20 verses · 4%
- Revelation 10 verses · 2%
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: Certain 107×, Some 70×, Any man 46×
- American Standard Version: Certain 101×, Some 71×, Any man 60×
- Berean Standard Bible: Some 97×, Anyone 84×, A 67×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Anyone 105×, Some 96×, Certain 89×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5100 across 423 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 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 27 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5100 across 503 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 44 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 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5100 across 449 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 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 64 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5100 across 549 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- a certain, a certain one
- some, some time, a while
Word origin
Origin: an enclitic indefinite pronoun
An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object : - a (kind of) any (man thing thing at all) certain (thing) divers he (every) man one (X thing) ought + partly some (man -body -thing -what) (+ that no-) thing what (-soever) X wherewith whom [-soever] whose ([-soever]).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 23 distinct written forms G5100 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5100, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τις appears 1,375 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,146 verses in 38 books.
- 1,375
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1,146
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:19 τίς
- Exodus 1:18 τίς
- Leviticus 4:2 τις
- Numbers 5:7 τίς
- Deuteronomy 1:31 τις
- Joshua 2:20 τις
- Judges 1:1 τίς
- Ruth 1:11 τίς
- 1 Samuel 1:8 τίς
- 2 Samuel 1:4 τίς
- 1 Kings 1:6 τίς
- 2 Kings 1:5 τίς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5100) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,146. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:19 τίς Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 3:1 τίς Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:11 τίς God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:13 τίς Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 4:6 τίς Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
- Genesis 4:10 τίς Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 6:5 τις Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 12:18 τίς Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- Genesis 12:19 τίς Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 13:16 τις I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
- Genesis 14:13 τις One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
- Genesis 15:2 τίς Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
- Genesis 15:8 τίς He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
- Genesis 18:13 τίς Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
- Genesis 18:30 τις He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
- Genesis 18:32 τις He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 19:12 τίς The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 20:9 τίςτις Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
- Genesis 20:10 τίς Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"
- Genesis 21:7 τίς She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
- Genesis 21:17 τίς God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 21:26 τίς Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
- Genesis 21:29 τίς Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
- Genesis 22:7 τίς Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
- Genesis 23:15 τίς "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."
- Genesis 24:23 τίς and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
- Genesis 24:31 τίς He said, "Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."
- Genesis 24:47 τίς I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
- Genesis 24:65 τίς She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.
- Genesis 25:22 τίς The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
- Genesis 25:32 τίς Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"
- Genesis 26:9 τίς Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 26:10 τίςτις Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
- Genesis 26:27 τίς Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
- Genesis 27:18 τίς He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:20 τίς Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."
- Genesis 27:32 τίς Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
- Genesis 27:33 τίς Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Genesis 27:37 τίς Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:44 τις Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
- Genesis 27:46 τίς Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
- Genesis 29:15 τίς Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
- Genesis 29:25 τίς It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
- Genesis 30:31 τίς He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
- Genesis 31:11 τίς The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
- Genesis 31:26 τίς Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Genesis 31:30 τίς Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
- Genesis 31:32 τίς With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
- Genesis 31:36 τίς Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
- Genesis 31:37 τίς Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5100) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
