τίς
a certain
‘a certain’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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.
54 verses where G5100 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
- Acts 3:5 τι indef.pron acc sg neut He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
- Acts 4:32 τι indef.pron acc sg neut The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- Acts 5:2 τι indef.pron acc sg neut and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
- Acts 5:36 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Acts 7:24 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
- Acts 8:9 τις τινα indef.pron nom sg masc indef.pron acc sg masc But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
- Acts 8:36 τι indef.pron acc sg neut As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"
- Acts 9:2 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
- Acts 9:19 τινάς indef.pron acc pl fem He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
- Acts 9:33 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
- Acts 10:5 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter.
- Acts 10:11 τι indef.pron acc sg neut He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
- Acts 10:48 τινάς indef.pron acc pl fem He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
- Acts 12:1 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
- Acts 13:6 τινὰ indef.pron acc sg masc When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,
- Acts 15:2 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
- Acts 15:36 τινας indef.pron acc pl fem After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."
- Acts 16:12 τινάς indef.pron acc pl fem and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
- Acts 16:16 τινὰ indef.pron acc sg fem It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
- Acts 17:5 τινὰς indef.pron acc pl masc But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
- Acts 17:6 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
- Acts 17:20 τινα indef.pron acc pl neut For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
- Acts 17:21 τι τι indef.pron acc sg neut indef.pron acc sg neut Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
- Acts 18:2 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
- Acts 18:23 τινὰ indef.pron acc sg masc Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
- Acts 19:1 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
- Acts 19:32 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.
- Acts 19:38 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
- Acts 19:39 τι indef.pron acc sg neut But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
- Acts 21:34 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
- Acts 21:37 τι indef.pron acc sg neut As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?
- Acts 23:17 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."
- Acts 23:18 τι indef.pron acc sg neut So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."
- Acts 23:20 τι indef.pron acc sg neut He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
- Acts 23:23 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."
- Acts 24:12 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
- Acts 24:19 τι indef.pron acc sg neut They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
- Acts 24:24 τινὰς indef.pron acc pl fem But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
- Acts 25:8 τι indef.pron acc sg neut while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."
- Acts 25:11 τι indef.pron acc sg neut For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
- Acts 25:16 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
- Acts 25:19 τινα τινος indef.pron acc pl neut indef.pron gen sg masc but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
- Acts 25:26 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
- Acts 26:26 τι indef.pron acc sg neut For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.
- Acts 26:31 τι indef.pron acc sg neut When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
- Acts 27:1 τινας indef.pron acc pl masc When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
- Acts 27:8 τινὰ indef.pron acc sg masc With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
- Acts 27:16 τι indef.pron acc sg neut Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.
- Acts 27:26 τινα indef.pron acc sg fem But we must run aground on a certain island."
- Acts 27:27 τινὰ indef.pron acc sg fem But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
- Acts 27:39 τινα indef.pron acc sg masc When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
- Acts 28:3 τι indef.pron acc sg neut But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
- Acts 28:19 τι indef.pron acc sg neut But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
- Acts 28:21 τις τι indef.pron nom sg masc indef.pron acc sg neut They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
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.
