τίς
who
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Interrogative pronoun
- Asks a question (“who?”, “what?”).
- Indefinite pronoun
- Refers to someone or something unspecified (“someone,” “anything”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
47 verses where G5101 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 1:18 τί int.pron acc sg neut Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
- Luke 1:62 τί int.pron acc sg neut They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
- Luke 2:48 τί int.pron acc sg neut When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
- Luke 3:10 τί int.pron acc sg neut The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
- Luke 3:12 τί int.pron acc sg neut Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
- Luke 3:14 τί int.pron acc sg neut Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
- Luke 5:22 τί int.pron acc sg neut But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
- Luke 6:2 τί int.pron acc sg neut But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"
- Luke 6:11 τί int.pron acc sg neut But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
- Luke 6:41 τί int.pron acc sg neut Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
- Luke 6:46 Τί int.pron acc sg neut "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
- Luke 7:24 τί int.pron acc sg neut When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
- Luke 7:25 τί int.pron acc sg neut But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
- Luke 7:26 τί int.pron acc sg neut But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
- Luke 9:18 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc It happened, as he was praying alone, that the disciples were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say that I am?"
- Luke 9:20 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
- Luke 9:25 τί int.pron acc sg neut For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
- Luke 10:25 τί int.pron acc sg neut Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 10:26 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"
- Luke 11:11 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
- Luke 12:5 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
- Luke 12:11 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
- Luke 12:17 τί int.pron acc sg neut He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
- Luke 12:22 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Luke 12:26 τί int.pron acc sg neut If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
- Luke 12:29 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
- Luke 12:49 τί int.pron acc sg neut "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
- Luke 12:57 Τί int.pron acc sg neut Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
- Luke 16:2 τί int.pron acc sg neut He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
- Luke 16:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
- Luke 16:4 τί int.pron acc sg neut I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'
- Luke 17:8 τί int.pron acc sg neut and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
- Luke 18:6 τί int.pron acc sg neut The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
- Luke 18:18 τί int.pron acc sg neut A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 18:19 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God.
- Luke 18:41 τί int.pron acc sg neut "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again."
- Luke 19:15 τίς τί int.pron nom sg masc int.pron acc sg neut "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
- Luke 19:33 τί int.pron acc sg neut As they were untying the colt, the owners of it said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
- Luke 19:48 τί int.pron acc sg neut They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
- Luke 20:13 τί int.pron acc sg neut The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
- Luke 20:15 τί int.pron acc sg neut They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
- Luke 22:46 τί int.pron acc sg neut and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
- Luke 22:71 τί int.pron acc sg neut They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"
- Luke 23:22 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
- Luke 23:34 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
- Luke 24:5 τί int.pron acc sg neut Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
- Luke 24:38 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
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 — 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
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.
- #36
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 36 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 482 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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- 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.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G5101 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
