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τίς

who

G5101 Strong's Greek
tís Transliteration
/tis/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 533 appearances

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About this entry

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τις — transliterated tís — is a Greek word carrying the sense “who.” Debuting at Matthew 3:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 482 verses in 20 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
every man
Modern gloss
who
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5101 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 →

482
distinct verses
The word appears in 482 distinct verses.
20 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:7
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:7.
Revelation 18:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 18:18.
#36
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 36 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 308 · 64%
  • Acts 53 · 11%
  • Pauline Epistles 86 · 18%
  • General Epistles 22 · 5%
  • Revelation 13 · 3%

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 482 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 308 verses · 64%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 154 verses · 32%
  • Pauline corpus 86 verses · 18%
  • Johannine 83 verses · 17%
  • Revelation 13 verses · 3%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 12 verses · 2%
  • Hebrews 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: What 260×, Who 101×, Why 67×
  • American Standard Version: What 246×, Who 107×, Why 76×
  • Berean Standard Bible: What 232×, Who 118×, Why 78×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: What 271×, Who 118×, Why 93×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5101 across 523 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “What” 260×
  • “Who” 101×
  • “Why” 67×
  • “Whom” 25×
  • “Which” 16×
  • “How” 10×
  • “Whose” 9×
  • “Whether” 8×
  • “Whereunto” 6×
  • “Wherefore” 4×
  • “Every man” 2×
  • “Thing” 2×

Plus 13 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 14 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5101 across 541 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “What” 246×
  • “Who” 107×
  • “Why” 76×
  • “Which” 23×
  • “Whom” 18×
  • “How” 9×
  • “Whose” 8×
  • “Wherefore” 5×
  • “That” 4×
  • “Whereunto” 3×
  • “Wherewith” 3×
  • “How is it” 2×

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.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5101 across 502 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “What” 232×
  • “Who” 118×
  • “Why” 78×
  • “Which” 25×
  • “Whom” 13×
  • “How” 11×
  • “Whose” 7×
  • “Something” 2×
  • “Way” 2×

Plus 14 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 58 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5101 across 611 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “What” 271×
  • “Who” 118×
  • “Why” 93×
  • “Is” 30×
  • “Which” 27×
  • “Whom” 18×
  • “How” 7×
  • “Reason” 7×
  • “Whose” 6×
  • “Have” 5×
  • “Does” 4×
  • “Is it” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 13 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 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.

  1. who, which, what

Word origin

Derived from τις (tìs) (G5100) — a certain.

Probably emphatic of G5100 ; an interrogitive pronoun who which or what (in direct or indirect questions): - every man how (much) + no (-ne thing) what (manner thing) where ([-by -fore -of -unto -with -withal]) whether which who (-m -se) why.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


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